Aboyne boys win medals for Scotland
Running for Scotland. the Aboyne Academy junior boys’ squad won team silver at the ISF World Schools Championship Orienteering at Barr Wood near Stirling today (Friday).
And there was a second individual bronze for Finlay Langan, their first counter home in the middle distance event, while Joab Matthews and Sam Burgess finished 12th and 14th.
Latvia with a total time of 2h 40m 15s for their best three counters in Tuesday’s long and Thursday’s middle distance events won team gold. Scotland won silver with 2h 44m 32s.
And Poland who had gone into the second day of competition just 8 seconds behind the Scots finished third with 2h 46m06s.
It was a first ever team medal for the Scots at the ISF orienteering championships. Langan, who clocked 14m29s, lost ten seconds at one control and missed individual silver by seven seconds behind Latvia’s Ivars Klavins (14:09) and Portugal’s Luis Silva (14:22).
Bill Melville
More details and photographs on the World Schools website
Posted on 25th Apr 08 by
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