Cambridge University Orienteering Club - CUOC

In less than 2 weeks (22nd/23rd March) we'll be awarding the Icenian Trophy to the best performing club at CUOC's Icenian Sprint Weekend! Your top score across day 1 and 2 count and with no class quotas, everyone can get involved! As entries stand, there are 5 clubs in contention, with many more just needing a few more entries for them to be in the running too.

Enter now to secure your spot and help your club win the trophy!

Enter via SiEntries: https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?event_id=15037

Entries close Sunday 16th March.

West Anglian Orienteering Club
Hertfordshire Orienteering
Suffolk Orienteering Club
Norfolk Orienteering
Bristol Orienteering Klub
Pendle Forest Orienteers Page
South London Orienteers
South Midlands Orienteering Club
SROC - Red Rose Orienteers
Lincoln Orienteering Group (LOG)
Leicestershire Orienteering Club

The Icenian Weekend 2025 is just around the corner, offering top-quality orienteering and exciting competition.

Join us on 22nd-23rd March in Cambridge & Huntingdon for two days of fast-paced sprint orienteering. Race through technical urban areas, test your navigation skills, and compete for the Icenian Trophy.

Don’t miss out – enter now!

https://www.sientries.co.uk/event.php?event_id=15037

Entries are now open for CUOC's biennial Icenian Weekend! Check the link in our bio or head to our website to enter.

Join us for two days of sprint/urban orienteering:

On Saturday, as part of the UKUL and UKEOL, we are offering a two-part sprint around Trumpington. Built during the 2010’s, this new housing development has a fantastic sprint offering: a quick, furious area, with an abundance of routechoice and sharp turns that force mistakes from runners.

On Sunday we welcome orienteers to Huntingdon for classic urban orienteering, or a open/elite sprint race. Huntingdon offers a fantastic technical challenge for orienteering with three different urban styles. The courses start and finish in a classic 60’s estate with intricate cut throughs, passages and routechoices that will test runners. As an old market town, the town centre is a challenging mix of narrow alleyways and irregular roads. Contrastingly, a final residential area completes the map, a chance for runners to open up their stride maybe, or is there a catch?

We are honoured to have been awarded University Club of the Year 2023!

Thank you to all CUOC members and to our alumni club DrongO for volunteering throughout the year, participating in our training sessions, and contributing to the welcoming and collaborative environment in the club.

This year, we competed in the European University Championships, we held the Icenian Sprint championships and English Universities championship, we organised the Cambridge City Race and had the pleasure of hosting BUCS.

Every year, we introduce new students to the sport of Orienteering, encouraging participation from all levels at every event.

Read more of what we did the last year here: https://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/news/6378

Special mention to Dom Dakin, Sarah Pedley, Matthew Dixon and Peter Molloy for their efforts this year!

Varsity 2024
🏆CUOC men 271:01 - OUOC 295:31
Peter Molloy and Dom Dakin 1st and 3rd over all
CUOC women 373:59 - 🏆OUOC women 183:01

We return triumphant from the Tors
An epic battle took place - applause!
Seventeen CUOC-ers, all in all
encountered countours, marshes, rocks of tall.
Some got bogged, some were lost
All were soaking wet, awashed
with a muddy pride, that CUOC blue
Stained on their nails (emboldened hearts, too?)
For Varsity was ours! Cambridge was Victorious
With Pete and Dom taking the podium - so glorious
The rain stopped, sun beamed and sea we did see
For the mass start relay this morning, we finished with glee.

BUCS Entries NOW OPEN!!

https://www.bucs.org.uk/events-page/orienteering-championships-2023-24.html #

Download the BUCS play app and register!

Take a look at our training schedule and the upcoming events this Lent term!
Hope to see many of you there!

Some more photos from the 2023 City Race!

Photo credit: Dik Ng

City Race 2023, CUOCers crossing Kings Bridge!

Make sure to check out more photos on our website!

Cambridge City Race 2023
Results are out! Pete Malloy stormed to victory in the Men's Open, with Hanna Turi claiming second in the Women's open
Check out more photos on our website
Photo credit: Ng

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