BRITISH WOC TEAM 2017

GB WOC Team
Women
Men


Tessa Strain
Selected for: Sprint and Sprint Relay
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships


Kris Jones
Selected for: Sprint and Sprint Relay
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Mark Purkis


Megan Carter-Davies
Selected for: Sprint
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships


Peter Hodkinson
Selected for: Sprint and Middle
Best international result: GOLD, World University Sprint Relay Championships 2016
Aims: Sprint top 10 and relay medals
Fun Fact: I can clap one handed
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📷: Mark Purkis


Alice Leake
Selected for: Sprint
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Wendy Carlyle



Chris Smithard
Selected for: Sprint
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships


Hollie Orr
Selected for: Middle and Long
Best international result: 6th European Long 2016
Aims: Individual top 10 and relay podium
Fun Fact: My biggest fear is making the bloopers reel at WOC, which I have done once before and hope never to repeat again
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📷: Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships


Alan Cherry
Selected for: Long
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships


Cat Taylor
Selected for: Sprint, Sprint Relay and Middle
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Orienteering.lt


Ralph Street
Selected for: Sprint Relay, Middle and Long
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships


Jess Tullie
Selected for: Middle and Long
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships


Graham Gristwood
Selected for: Long
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun Fact:
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📷: Orienteering.lt



Charlotte Watson
Selected for: Long
Best international result: 29th WOC Long 2015
Aims: Top 20
Fun Fact: I have lived in three different capital cities
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📷: World Orienteering Championships 2015 Scotland

Jo Shepherd
Selected for: Sprint
Best international result:
Aims:
Fun fact:
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Jonny Crickmore
Selected for: Long
Best international result: 7th Junior World Orienteering Championship Sprint, 2013
Aims: Top 40
Fun Fact:
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Will Gardner
Selected for: Middle
Best international result: 6th World University Sprint Championships, 2016
Aims: To make the most of my first WOC and enjoy racing at the pinnacle of my sport
Fun Fact: This is the third time I've been called up to a championships as a reserve
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📷: Nokian Tyres World Orienteering Championships

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