British Orienteering

Junior European Cup 2023 Round up

29 August 2023

Last week, 13 athletes travelled to Virton, Belgium to compete in the Junior European Cup in the beautiful forests of Wallonia, alongside 12 other nations with over 150 athletes represented.

The competition got off to a great start with Imogen Pieters taking a 6th place in the Women’s 18 Middle event with James Bailey and Rachel Brown also finishing inside the top 10 in the Men’s and Women’s class respectively.

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Images: Imogen Pieters at the Middle Distance event and pictured at the prize giving ceremony (far right).

On Sunday the competitors returned to the long event. With all events taking place in new terrain for orienteers, the competitors were faced with a variable environment from open, leafy but hilly forest with more densely vegetated summits. Alex Wetherill was top placed athlete in the Men’s 20 in 7th with both James Bailey and Imogen Pieters again securing top 10 finishes.

The competition concluded on Monday with the relay event with the top Men’s team in 8th and the Women’s in 9th.

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Images: Euan Tryner, Miia Roller and Ben Squire during the Long Distance.

Results

Middle event

Women's Men's 
Imogen Pieters – 6th  Jim Bailey – 9th
Rachel Brown – 7th Alex Wetherill – 17th 
Miia Roller – 14th  Euan Tryner – 21st
Rachel Duckworth – 17th  Ben Squire – 26th
Pippa Carcas – 19th  Charlie Rennie – 33rd
Iris Macmillan – 28th   
Laura Brown – 31st  
Isobel Howard – 38th   

Long event

Women's Men's 
Imogen Pieters – 9th Alex Wetherill – 7th
Rachel Brown – 14th  Jim Bailey – 9th
Miia Roller – 17th Euan Tryner – 20th
Pippa Carcas – 18th Charlie Rennie – 22nd
Rachel Duckworth – 20th Ben Squire – 35th
Isobel Howard – 21st  
Laura Brown – 31st  
Iris Macmillan – DNS  

Relay event

Great Britain Team 1 Result Great Britain Team 2   Great Britain Team 3   Great Britain Team 4  
Jim Bailey

 

8th 

Imogen Pieters

 

9th

Pippa Carcas

 

10th

Charlie Rennie

 

18th

Alex Wetherill Miia Roller Rachel Duckworth Ben Squire
Euan Tryner Rachel Brown  Isobel Howard Laura Brown

This now concludes the Junior International Season and the focus is on the European Championships and World Cup Final as the last senior international competition for 2023. 

Images: Iris Macmillan returned to the relay event after a sickness bug, Alex Wetherill during the race, and Isobel Howard and Rachel Brown are all smiles at the event.

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Images

With thanks to Christophe Amerijckx for the above images from the event.