British Orienteering Championships

The British Orienteering Championships are the highest level of competition in Orienteering in the United Kingdom, along with the JK Orienteering Festival.

1967 saw the first British Championships, held in Hamsterley Forest, in what was then called the "Classic" discipline, and is now more commonly known as the "Long" distance. Since then, 5 further disciplines have emerged over which a British Championships is contested:

  • The British Relay Championships were first held in 1972
  • The British Night Championships were first held in 1978
  • The British Middle Championships were first held in 1998
  • The British Sprint Championships were first held in 2002
  • The British Mixed Sprint Relay first had a trial in 2016 followed by the first official championship in 2017
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