Lee Kemp is running in the European Deaf Championships at Võru, Estonia.

Lee came 13th in Monday’s Sprint competition around the town. The course was quite easy but some competitors were caught out by the proximity of mens’ and womens’ controls.

In the light of controversy at some Sussex Sprint events, it is interesting to note that six competitors were disqualified for jumping a “not to be crossed” wall between controls 12 and 13.

World Deaf Champion Tomas Kuzminskis won. Other British competitors were Ian Ditchfield (MV, 11th) and Peter O’Connell (EBOR, 28th).

Event web site.

Excellent to see that team GB are doing sterling work away from Beijing (some other international event beginning with O - not orienteering, I forget what it was called).

The summer season of Park-Os, with the prestigious Sussex Sprint Championship series has provided valuable training for two of the British team at the European Deaf Orienteering Championships for that particular discipline - very respectable results against tough competition (conceding years and relative experience to some of the top elite competitors in the open mens’ class).

The European Champs features sprint, classic distance and relay disciplines.

The Classic distance was today, and judging by the results, pretty tough.
Ian has supplied a brief report on this to British Orienteering. A link to the report is here: BOF News Item - Classic Race.