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Alice Leake wins Bronze at WOC2022!

Successful World Champs for GB

A massive congratulations to Alice Leake who has won the Bronze Medal in the World Championships Individual Sprint today in Vejle, Denmark. A very well deserved result!

Megan Carter-Davies (recent British Sprints Champion at Leeds University) won the race to become the first British world individual champion since 2003.

This capped a successful end for GB at WOC2022, with Megan also winning a silver medal in the Knock-out sprint and being part of a silver medal winning sprint relay team with Charlotte Ward (HALO), Kris Jones and Ralph Street, amongst a number of other impressive performances from the whole GB team - well done to them all from AIRE.

Fast and Glorious Airienteers!

Saturday dawned for the relays. Yours truly headed out with some trepidation. I wouldn’t say I was press-ganged into entering but let’s say I didn’t volunteer and the two other people the club captain asked to complete the team were unavailable! AIRE had a good complement of teams – 11 altogether. Our club captain Steve Webb did a sterling job filling up gaps in some and on the day rallying as many of us round for a team photo (a bit like herding cats I think) but he managed to get most of us.

Our results were:

Young Junior (12-): 5^th was Paddington BeAIRE – Charlie Alcock, Kate Parkinson, Charlotte Beavers

Junior (16-): 9^th was bAIRE necessities – Katie Buckley, Henry Stitson, Megan Robinson

10^th was Rupert bAIRE – James Woodham, Annie Faulkner, Joseph Dawson

Vets (40+) 5^th was Commission AIRE – Rob Gatenby, Jo Buckley, Dave Alcock

10^th was VoltAIRE – David Bowman, Natasha Conway, Richard Foster

Supervets (55+) 13^TH was BelAIRE – Greg Hull, Lindsey King, Chris Penny

Ultravets (65+) 5^th was LassezfAIRE – Tony Carlyle, Liz Carter, Peter Jones.

Liz Carter

AIRE chAIRE

British Sprints walking on Aire!

A big thank you to all involved in the British Sprints on Sunday. A good day was had by all, the weather was kind and we had a good turnout. Special thanks go to the planners, Richard Foster, David Bowman and David Williams. The organisers Chris Burden and Graham Stuart supported by Tony Thornley, not forgetting the controllers, Ranald Macdonald and Ian Marshall and the Start leaders Tony Carlyle and Martyn Broadest. Thanks also to EBOR who lent us additional SI kit for the event. Also a big shout out to all the volunteers who gave their time to make the event a success. Some of whom also helped out on the Saturday Relays as well. Without the support of all of you we would not be able to put on quality events – or any events for that matter.

Again - many thanks to all

Liz Carter (Chair)

Special congratulations to the following Airienteers...

M10 Joby Pinker-Hull 5th, Charlie Alcock 6th

M14 Henry Stitson 7th; W14 Katie Buckley 10th

MOpen Andrew Stemp 17th; WOpen Alice Leake 2nd

M45 David Alcock 5th; W45 Faye Pinker 9th

M50 Chris Gibbins 14th; W50 Natasha Conway 5th

M60 Steve Webb 2nd; W60 Gills Adams 9th

M65 Maurice Calvert 5th

Aire Affairs May Issue

A report on this year's challenging British Championships; the return of AIRE Juniors to the JK Mini Relay and the fun of Sprint Orienteering in Antwerp feature in this issue of the Club Newsletter.

Aire Affairs May 2022