500 participants from 30 countries enjoy Sprint Lockdown Orienteering

Report by Chris Smithard, GB Elite Squad member and Lockdown Orienteering Coordinator.

The sprint focused weekend was the second competition Lockdown Orienteering has organised, just 2 weeks after the first.

Again 500 participants took part but this time from 30 countries across the globe which aims to provide a bit of orienteering fun in these difficult times. This time there were again 2 categories: a 10 stage and 7 stage competition. Some of the stages were new and others favourites from the Easter Champs.

Malthe Poulsen of Denmark was victorious in both the 10 stage and 7 stage competitions with second place going again to the Frenchman Theo Fleurent in both competitions. In the 10 stage third went to Marian Basset of France and in the 7 stage to Andrew Stemp of Airenteers in the UK. You can check out the results on our new results system.

There was also a knock out sprint competition in Catching Features. Eight started the final and at half way Thierry Gueorgiou had a lead but a big mistake saw him past by several of the other competitors with Gustav Runefors of Sweden able to take the win. He follows fellow countryman Casper Skeep who won the Easter Champs mass start final race. Unfortunately technical problems made the livestream a less fun watch than previous but you can rewatch the action here.

The competition was donating some of the proceeds to the development of orienteering in South Africa and some maps from there were used during the competition.

There were 12 Stages to the competition over the weekend. For further information of the stages please visit the competitor information for each day here.

Full results can be found here.