Category: Fixtures/Events

2020’s Scottish Night Championships will be hosted by Moravian at the popular site of Findhorn on the Moray Coast. Saturday 15th February will see all competitors don headtorches and set out on their courses to see who will be crowned Scottish Night Champions! Be sure to enter before Sunday’s closing date!

This year’s Scottish Orienteering Championships will take place at Tentsmuir – north of St. Andrews – on the weekend of 22^nd-23^rd August 2020.

In celebration of 2019 being the 21st Year of The Glasgow Parks Champs / 3 Parks In 1 Day event, STAG Orienteering Club is introducing a new Team Sprint Relay – named DU’O’ – on Saturday 30 November.

Entries for the 28 June JOK Chasing Sprint at Callendar Park – which will be broadcast live on BBC TV – close on Thursday 13 June – so orienteers are encouraged to enter online now!

In response to membership input and as part of the evolution of the SOA, the board is commissioning an SOA Competitions Calendar Review. This will be undertaken as a fixed period, paid, contracted work package.

Orienteering will enjoy live television coverage this summer as the JOK Chasing Sprint – which takes place at Callendar Park, Falkirk, on Friday 28 June – will be shown on TV and online, via the new BBC Scotland TV channel.

This year’s World Schools Championships in Orienteering (WSCO) is being held from 29 April – 5 May in Estonia. Scotland will be represented by a team of 15 athletes from throughout the country, and three coaches.

Everyone at the SOA would like to wish good luck to all the Scottish orienteers making the long trip south to this weekend’s Jan Kjellström International Festival of Orienteering 2019, as well as those staying north for Tayside Orienteers’ “Not the JK”, near Perth.

Anyone looking to take part in this year’s Scottish Orienteering Championships can now enter via SiEntries, as entries for the 2019 Individual and Relay Championships are now open.

The Veteran Home International was held in conjunction with Basoc’s Highland WOLF weekend. Back on home turf with the strongest team for a few years, the Scots were hoping to have a stronger challenge for the title than in the last few years. Read More…