British Orienteering

GB Selection Announcement World Orienteering Championships and World Games

31 May 2022

World Orienteering Championships

British Orienteering is delighted to announce the athletes selected to represent Great Britain at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships, in Denmark from 26-30 June.

This is the first-ever Sprint-only World Championships, and Individual Sprint, Knock-Out Sprint, and Mixed Sprint Relay are the disciplines being contested.

British Orienteering will field a strong team of four men and four women, all with previous World Championships experience. The named athletes include Alice Leake (placed 4th in Individual Sprint at the 2021 World Championships), Megan Carter-Davies (silver in KO Sprint at World Cup 1 in Sweden last week), as well as Kris Jones, and Ralph Street (both also previous World Cup sprint medallists).

Mixed Sprint Relay

KO Sprint

Individual Sprint

Kristian Jones

Ralph Street

Jonathan Crickmore

Kristian Jones

Ralph Street

Kristian Jones

Nathan Lawson

Ralph Street

Megan Carter-Davies

Charlotte Ward

Megan Carter-Davies

Grace Molloy

Charlotte Ward

Megan Carter-Davies

Alice Leake

Charlotte Ward

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If needed, reserves will initially be drawn from within the named team.

The support staff travelling with the team will be Tom Bray, Lasse Grøn, Murray Strain, and Emil Wingstedt, along with Performance Pathway Director Bernie Dietzig

Further information can be found here, and it will be possible to follow the races on Web TV, live GPS, and live results via the IOF Live coverage here.

The World Games

The World Games is a multi-sport games held every four years, in the year following each Summer Olympic Games.  The 2022 World Games is in Birmingham, Alabama, and is from 7-17 July.  There will be over 3,600 athletes from over 30 sports.

Orienteering is a well-established sport within the World Games, with competitions in Individual Sprint and Middle (each limited to 40 men and 40 women qualifiers) and also Mixed Sprint Relay.

The orienteering races take place from 15-17 July.

Great Britain has qualified to send a full team, which for World Games is two men and two women for the individual races, plus one team for Mixed Sprint Relay.  All athletes run all disciplines.

Men

Women

Jonathan Crickmore

Ralph Street

Cecilie Andersen

Charlotte Ward

Further information on the World Games can be found here.  

Many congratulations to all the named athletes for both the competitions and best wishes for final preparations and for the races. Good luck!