TRAIL ORIENTEERING
Conventional orienteering
combines fast running with precise navigation, typically through
forests or over moorland. Trail Orienteering (Trail O) is a
discipline of the sport designed so that people with disabilities
could have meaningful orienteering competitions. It completely
eliminates the element of speed over the ground, but makes the
map-interpretation element much harder. Able-bodied people can
compete on equal terms with the disabled.
This site is maintained by Anne Braggins, who
chaired the International Orienteering Federation's Trail O Commission until
January 2009
This website contains:
- A more detailed introduction,
another article introducing Trail O, and some examples of 'answers'
with explanations
- An illustrated leaflet in Adobe Acrobat format
which can be downloaded for printing
- Information about permanent Trail O
courses
- Information for event officials (controllers,
planners, mappers, and organizers), including the
IOF Controllers' Clinics with material added in January and July 2006
and August 2007, including examples results
calculation spreadsheets in Excel (including a new
'formula free' version July 2010) and Swedish
Guidelines (in English) for Pre O
- Information about youth development including
the Youth Sports Trust's TOP courses
- Links to relevent organizations in many countries
and IOF Rules for Trail O including map specifications and eligibility information
- IOF event results including
2007 European Championships, 2006
European and World Trail O Championships
2005 World Trail O Championships, Aichi, Japan,
European Championships Asiago, Italy,
2004 and World Trail O Championships, Vasteras,
Sweden 2004 with many maps and solution sheets
- BOF Event Results BTOC2010
JK2009 -
JK2007 - 2006 British Championships
and JK 2006 and BTOC
2005 (Penhale) results all in Adobe Acrobat format
- Event calendar
- Results Day 1 and Both
days for British Trail O Championships 8&9 September 2007
- Results of, and information on, a demonstration of a new form of Trail O,
Tempo, in July 2007
- Results of the Tempo demonstration event at
WTOC Miskolc August
2009
Site last updated 15th July 2010 by Don Braggins.