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18th May 1997
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Name Age Time (mins) Charlotte Goode 7 11 Andrew Goode 5 11 Lucy Taylor 6 10 Alana Wright 4 10 Nathan Fernandes 4 40 James Haynes 3 21 Daniel Tett 9 8 Thomas Beasant 7 8 Christopher Beasant 7 9 Alice Townsend 5 9 Angus Turner 9 7 Mary Empeton 4 18 Michael Beasant 4 13 Robert Drew 8 8 Lindsay Turner 7 10 Peter Gardner 12 5 Stuart Clayton 5 8 Matthew Laird 3 13 Stephen Green 3 13 Simon Gardner 8 7 Ruth Townsend 3 17 Liam Nash 2 30 Amy Kimberley 1 25 Joanna Halliday 7 6 Philip Humphries 7 7 Jessica Halliday 9 8 Ruth Debenham 18 5 Claire Garside 5 12 Samantha Newton 11 6 James Pearson 11 5 Philippa Pettingill 11 4 Beth Woodley 2 26 Oban Lewsley 3 13 Martha Conway 4 17 Siarlot Lloyd 3 16 Matthew Franklin 10 5 Christina Condy 7 7 Matthew Clough 5 12 Thomas Clough 5 12 Rebecca Lyle 11 9 Ingrid Franklin 8 7 Jeremy Frentz 3 14 Rowena Johnson 4 18 Christopher Mallinson 1 26 Ian Riley 9 9 Joe Harris 9 6 Craig Woodford 2 13 David Schorah 5 9 Robin Tett 4 13 Beth Emberton 7 7 Emma Jones 7 16 Matthew Jones 3 16 Christopher Nicholls 5 18 Robert Jones 5 16 Tim Brandon 9 10 Nadine Wright 8 6 Rachel King 8 9 Oliver Watson 2 29 Helen Watson 3 29 Katherine Nicholls 3 23 Daniel Kimberley 9 6 Charlie Jenkins 2 12 Katie Russell 5 10 Chloe Starling 9 10 Holly Pownall 4 4 Lowri Jones 6 8 Martin Edwards 11 6 Alex Whitehead 5 9 Jessica Whitehead 7 9 Nicholas Frentz 6 9 Justin Scholtens 10 7 Katy Moncaster 8 7 Laura Evans 6 9 Helen Gardner 10 5 Julia Greenfield 5 10 Dale Jones 4 10 Byron Williams 7 8 Jenny Evans 3 17 Dryden Williams 6 7 Catherine Taylor 7 7 Lucy Taylor 6 8 Christopher Smethard 8 7 Martha Conway 4 18 Charlotte Ward 4 12 Rachel Robinson 8 11 Zoe Smithard 6 11 Rachel Elsgood 8 7 Jenny Elsgood 6 7 Rosie Greyburn 9 7 Robin Tett 4 17 Peter Riley 5 17 Naomi Greyburn 7 10 Michael May 7 9 Matthew Guest 8 7 Peter Pittson 8 7 Lauren Innes 6 7 Hannah Jenkins 4 10 Hannah Thetford 3 22 Martin Thetford 1 24 Jessica Chapman 5 11 Amber Harris 4 13 Reece Robinson 11 5 Charlotte Turner 11 6 Mark McLeod 6 13 Jack Cheesewright 2 14 Jane Phizacklea 12 5 Sarah Horner 10 6 Duncan Birtwistle 5 14 Andrew Phizacklea 13 5 Thomas Clough (2nd run) 17 Michael Konig 6 10 Sandra Konig 4 12 George Horner 9 6 George Howell 11 5 Lisa Petrie 5 10 Jess Marlow 5 10 David Thomas 8 6 Jemma Petrie 3 13 Michael Thomas 12 6 Victoria Smith 10 6 Megan Greenhall 10 10 Holly Guest 10 6 Nicola Hale 11 6 Ralph Street 6 6 Richard Jones 5 8 Eleanor Russell 3 15 Anne Edwards 7 7 Calum Ruddock 5 9 Alex Crosby 1 31 Bryony Crickmore 6 7 Scott Bowen 4 8 Cerys Jones 3 16 Laurie Jenner 7 16 Emily Bowyer 5 11 Chris Parsons 3 18 Tom Parsons 5 18 Ben Seward 6 6 Kate Bowen 2 11 Jonathan Crickmore 4 10 Emily Wood 5 14 Tom Seward 8 8 Sam Wood 2 16 Aidan Smith 1 41 Elizabeth Horner 1 13 Dean Harrison 11 6 Heather Monro !!!!! ?? 4 Hugh Denton 2 30 Chris Sellens 12 4 Andrew Sutheerland 4 10 Martin Leventon 13 7 Joanne West 9 6 Katie Sellens 10 6 Oliver Howell 2 17 Rebecca Lyle (2nd run) 6 Harriet Pettingill 11 5 Beth and Holly (2nd run) 12 Kathryn Drew 2 21 Hannah Garside 2 17 Helen Clayton 6 23 Faye Henesy 1 22 Robert Essex 6 8 Robert Glazier 7 8 Lucy Fryer 8 7 Tom Broadhead 4 9 Alice Dickson 12 6 Emily Addison 6 10 Matthew Addison 5 12 Shona Masson 2 28 Thomas Bowering 2 20 Clare Sutherland 9 8 Mark Sutherland 7 8 Charlotte Horner 6 6 Alex Horner 8 6 Michael Collins 5 9 Henry Howell 7 7 Simone Richardson 3 16 Russell Smith 11 6 Sarah Dredge 11 6 Eleanor Bate 6 9 David McShane 3 18 Andrew Collins 2 15 Thomas Robertson 5 10 Laura Keighley 10 7 Susannah Robertson 12 7 Corinne Berry 12 6 Fiona Sutherland 2 19 Mark Farrington 11 9 Robyn Blaker 6 9 Caroline Menzies 11 6 Zoe Hutchinson 9 6 Simon Andersson 3 11 Willem Blaker 5 11 David Thomas (2nd run) 5 Michael Thomas (2nd run) 4 Danielle Taylor 12 5 Victoria Toplis 8 7 Rebecca Mead 2 16 Greg Street 4 16 Alex Toplis 5 8 Rebecca Thornton 3 21
We must thank John Hurley and Richard Payne for their gentle nudges at the tiller at times. Their advice was always supportive and allowed compromises to be easily arrived at to the obvious benefit of the event.
Our Team and Deputy Team Leaders were magnificent and ably supported by their band of willing helpers on the day, some of whom were not even orienteers or DVO members. All senior DVO members gave up the opportunity to run the relays and many didn't run on the Saturday. When we started organising, we made twenty phone calls to fill our twenty major roles and not one person refused the offer of a lifetime!
We should perhaps apologise to our Team Leaders for the number of meetings and volume of paperwork; but what do you expect when you get an academic and a local government officer to organise things! A word of apology is also due to those who we persuaded to take on a job on the understanding that it was not too onerous (honest, Rex, we didn't realise that Registration was going to be about the most time-consuming task of all!).
Our thanks go to their Graces, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, for the use of Chatsworth and to His Grace for presenting the prizes. We hope everyone agrees that the location was splendid, with a compact site and a wonderful view of the runners streaming down the hillside to the final control and along the run-in to the finish. Our thanks to John Oliver, the Comptroller, and his staff for their co-operation and for providing help we didn't ask for but was certainly welcome. Thanks to Councillor Martin Doughty for also presenting the prizes.
We must also apologise for the upset caused to some by the announcement of the Women's Open result. An error and confusion had been compounded to the point that a CUOC team was announced as winners, despite having declared themselves as non-competitive. Following justifiable complaints, the situation was investigated and the trophy awarded to ERYRI as Women's Open winners for 1997. Hopefully everyone will be satisfied with this decision and the consequent promotion of the following two teams.
One of the nicest aspects of the day was the large number of enthusiastic children who ran the string course; surely a hopeful sign for the health of orienteering in the future (and a source of potential volunteers for the British Championships in the next millennium!)
Ranald and Viv Macdonald
After deciding the area for the changeover at the northern end of the park, the choice for the shorter courses was limited, and the use of a taped route to use Bunters Hill Wood and the moor for the longer courses. It was a deliberate decision to take most of the courses diagonally up from the start and to end with the downhill run in the park.
On the day I was sorry to hear that some competitors think that the clearly marked out of bounds area of fields does not apply to them, and, as at the last moment, the week before the event, we had problems over using the routes back from the moor, which Alan Beardsley, the Assistant Planner resolved with the farm manager, thus enabling the event to take place, was a good reason for the out of bounds.
I also wish to thank Richard Payne, the Controller for his ideas and help.
On the day the weather was kind to us, though misty early on. I hope everyone enjoyed their day at Chatsworth.
Eric Gebbett
What a great sport orienteering is! Within a couple of weeks of doing battle against each other in the Compass Sport Cup DVO and NOC were working together to produce a superb British Relay Event at Chatsworth.
The car park and assembly area must have seemed a dream to most organisers used to having to cope with the usual sloping muddy field together with along walk to the competition area. The assembly area was chosen for its logistics and opportunity for spectators to watch the starts, changeover and finish. DVO led by Ranald and Viv MacDonald did themselves proud on the organisation side and I have to say I had total confidence in them as early as my first meeting a year or so before the event. These were the professionals!
Although Chatsworth is not particularly technical I am sure you will agree it proved to be a suitable area for the British Relays. By joining good running with combining start times you, the customers, were provided with competitive orienteering which was fast and furious and produced fair champions on the day.
Having planned a British Relay myself a few years ago I know how complicated the event can be and how the risk of something going wrong is much greater than with an individual event. This is due to the greater number of course combinations (62), as well as the mammoth exercise of co-ordinating the labelling of maps and paper bags. An awful lot can go wrong.
Therefore there is a great deal of credit to Eric for getting all this right, and the winning times, and to him, ably assisted by Alan Beardsley, that all the 114 controls were in the right place, correctly marked on the day. I have enjoyed working with both Eric and Alan over the last year or so.
Finally I would specifically draw attention to the results service of Mike Napier. Having produced all the necessary labels and printouts prior to the event Mike, supported from DVO helpers on the day, was able to provide on the day results with prize giving in line with times published and all this a day after providing the results service to the individual day.
Richard Payne
