| RAFO v Police Challenge 2002 |
This years RAFO v Police Challenge was held during the International Police Event in Warwickshire on the 3rd and 4th Apr 2002. Day 1 consisted of a short course and relay event, whilst the main classic event was held on day 2.
The Challenge was for the quickest time for the first six men and two ladies on the M21 and W21 courses. RAFO won this year with total time of 511min 39secs and the Police runner up time of 588min 42secs.
[CHALLENGE (CLASSIC DAY 2 EVENT) RESULTS]
[CHALLENGE EVENT SPLIT TIMES]
[DAY 1 (SHORT EVENT AND RELAY) RESULTS]
Well done to everybody. I offer the following comments from Pete Wood; no other person can summarise an event in quite the same way:
"Hey whipping boy, any chance of getting a RAF Team together to compete against
the Police in the annual competition". Why oh why do I not admit it, it's easier just competing!
Unlike most competitions against the Police, this years was organised around their
International Trotter Event, attracting teams from allover Europe with an aversion to
nick you for speeding if you had the audacity to overtake them in the forest. Only
joking stupid. . . . . . Unfortunately this meant we did not have the comfort of
having 70 or 80 runners to take them on at one of our RAFO Championships. 8 boys and 3 girls
were selected/volunteered.
Geoff Ellis
Rachel Ellis
Kev Duell
Jane Congreve
Sam Southwell
Nosh Chaudry
Andy Ebdon ( only selected for his vast experience)
Steve Lilleyman
Steve Price
Ian Bond
Mike Edwards (special guest from Cyprus)
In the morning of 3rd April a short event was held in Hay Wood, near Kennilworth in
Warwickshire. In the afternoon a relay event was organised in Leek Wooton. The main event was on the morning of 4th Apr at Bentley Woods.
What happened? We gave the Police a right good drubbin'. Hoo Rah. Enough of the Orienteering. We stayed overnight at Cosford and did a bit of partying
in Albrighton. What was learnt? We must attempt to get the RAF team together more often, not just the night before the Inter-Services. It certainly builds team
morale, which was evident the following day when everyone performed very well, especially
Geoff Ellis who was within spitting distance of a very useful Swede who ran away with the M21L at the JK the previous weekend.
Thanks must go to Andy Berne of the Police Athletic Association who, together with
members of Octavian Droobers, put on 3 events without a hitch in beautiful weather;
he had previously threatened to nick all the weather forecasters if they did not provide
good weather. The power of the Old Bill. But they're crap at orienteering.
Pete Wood
Top Bloke from another planet
[TOP][W21 RESULT][M40 RESULT][W40 RESULT][C RESULT]
1 Tero Koponen FIN M21 47:24
2 Mika Hirvinen FIN M21 50:24
3 Thomas Josarp SWE M21 52:10
4 Jyrki Eskola FIN M21 52:23
5 Geoff Ellis GBR/RAF M21 54:27
6 Per Skoglund NOR M21 55:09
7 Paul Couldridge GB/ARMY M21 55:34
8 Ulf Erik Strand NOR M21 56:13
9 Peter Drapcsik HUN M21 57:17
10 Hannu Helminen FIN M21 58:34
11 Kristen Ribe NOR M21 58:40
12 Axel Blomqvist GB/ARMY M21 59:26
13 Mats Liungqvist SWE M21 60:00
14 Gergely Halona HUN M21 60:08
15 Sam Southwell GBR/RAF M21 60:54
16 Kev Duell GBR/RAF M21 60:58
17 Andy Ebdon GBR/RAF M21 62:40
18 Malcolm Fowler GBR/PAA M21 62:49
19 Reidar Heivoll NOR M21 62:51
20 Ian Todd GB/ARMY M21 63:18
21 Steve Lilleyman GBR/RAF M21 66:40
22 Steve Price GBR/RAF M21 66:48
23 Neil Robson GBR/PAA M21 67:36
24 Juulsverre Stener NOR M21 68:21
25 Peter Kudrass GER M21 68:57
26 Andy Berne GBR/PAA M21 70:25
27 Eddie Nicholson GBR/PAA M21 71:06
---------M21 standard----------
28 Ian Bond GBR/RAF M21 72:42
29 Peter Guillaume GBR/PAA M21 77:24
30 Mike Edwards GBR/RAF M21 83:25
31 Neil Hallam GBR/PAA M21 84:55
32 Paul Bradley GBR/PAA M21 86:47
33 Dave Slade GBR/PAA M21 92:12
34 Rich Hanson GBR/PAA M21 94:57
35 Attila Kiss HUN M21 99:07
36 Sam Muhsin GBR/PAA M21 130:24
n/c James Furness GUEST M20 53:20
n/c Robert Palmer GUEST M21 57:28
dsq Laurence Snowden GB/ARMY M21 63:09 Missing no 16
Claes Hagstrand SWE M21 rtd Missing nos 18-27
[TOP][M21 RESULT][M40 RESULT][W40 RESULT][C RESULT]
1 Maria Olsson SWE W21 47:32
2 Lisbeth Halvorsen NOR W21 51:49
3 Signe Astrup Arnesen NOR W21 52:20
4 Rachel Ellis GBR/RAF W21 58:26
5 Eva Csaszar HUN W21 58:44
6 Claire Sapwell GB/ARMY W21 62:29
7 Anne Pearson GBR/PAA W21 67:16
8 Zsvzsa Vasvari HUN W21 74:51
---------W21 standard----------
9 Sarah Whatmough GB/ARMY W21 77:47
10 Marie Schwanitz GER W21 80:24
11 Jane Congreave GBR/RAF W21 81:34
12 Wendy Welham GBR/PAA W21 87:11
13 Charlotte Barker GBR/PAA W21 90:14
14 Nosheen Chaudry GBR/RAF W21 118:12
n/c Helen Palmer GUEST W21 50:25
[TOP][M21 RESULT][W21 RESULT][W40 RESULT][C RESULT]
1 Urban Arnesson SWE M40 38:10
2 Jyrki Routsi FIN M40 40:25
3 Rolf Helander FIN M40 41:58
4 Roland Svensson SWE M40 43:09
5 Jorgen Karlsson SWE M40 46:53
6 Hans Carlsson SWE M40 51:09
7 Jurgen Schwanitz GER M40 53:22
8 Chris Virgo GRB/PAA M40 56:36
9 Trevor Griffiths GBR/PAA M40 57:53
10 Malcolm Spencer GBR/PAA M40 58:32
11 Bengt Karrstrom SWE M40 59:03
12 Andy Tustin GB/ARMY M40 63:34
13 Neil Murphy GBR/PAA M40 64:19
14 Ronnie Fraser GBR/PAA M40 64:52
---------M40 standard----------
15 Ian Slater GBR/PAA M40 65:09
16 David Parkin GBR/PAA M40 65:32
17 John Woodhouse GBR/PAA M40 68:21
18 Lennart Ostanback SWE M40 68:25
19 Jim Saville GBR/PAA M40 68:41
20 Dave Birkett GBR/PAA M40 69:33
21 Andrew Eves GBR/PAA M40 79:53
22 John Richards GBR/PAA M40 83:02
23 Steve King GBR/PAA M40 83:51
n/c Trevor Simpson GUEST M60 60:56
n/c Tom O'Brien GBR/PAA M21 110:14
Gyorgy Bonusz HUN M40 rtd Missing nos 2-19
Peter Hornsby GUEST M40 rtd Missing nos 1-3,5,10-13,19
[TOP][M21 RESULT][W21 RESULT][M40 RESULT][C RESULT]
1 Gunilla Larsson SWE W40 41:18
2 Christina Bergstrom SWE W40 49:25
3 Anita Carlsson SWE W40 67:57
---------W40 standard----------
n/c Hilary Palmer GUEST W40 44:42
Erika Kudrass GER W40 rtd Missing nos 7-11,14
[TOP][M21 RESULT][W21 RESULT][M40 RESULT][W40 RESULT]
1 Stephanie Blomqvist GB/ARMY W14 41:15
2 Patrick Kudrass GER M12 121:29
----------C standard-----------
3 Colin Schwanitz GER M12 122:11
[TOP][M21 RESULT][W21 RESULT][M40 RESULT][W40 RESULT]