Daisy May McNamara and Euan Tryner, British Champs Winners 2026, photo: Rob Lines
First year senior Daisy May McNamara and second year senior Euan Tryner are the winners of the British Orienteering Championships for the classic long distance. The racing was on Saturday on Carreg Goch, South Wales moorland, put on by Swansea Bay OC. The organiser was Niall Reynolds and the planner Megan Mitchell. Ben Mitchell was the mapper (and a few other jobs too.) The controller was Alan Rosen, with his brother David the IOF Event Advisor.
With the British Relays the day after it was a weekend of mixed weather ("Four Seasons in One Weekend" wrote your correspondent's club captain.) The individual racing had fine weather including sunshine with heavy rain and even hail affecting some runners.
The Start, photo: Wendy Carlyle
The weather closes in, photo:Wendy Carlyle
Euan Tryner leaves the start, photo: Wendy Carlyle
Euan wrote on Attackpoint:
> It didn't feel like anything special as a run. It didn't feel like I was moving spectacularly well but I think the speed at which I can read the map meant that I could stay very stable technically throughout without ever really having to slow down.
Euan won the JK last year and has run World Cup races in GBR colours in both forest and sprint formats. He won both JK and British races as a junior and went to JWOC (Junior World Championships) twice with top-20 positions in long and middle in his final year.
By contrast Daisy May has a much shorter CV: JWOC 2024 (Czechia) and a few top-6 places as a junior. Before Uni she ran for Ayrshire Orienteering Club. She is a member of the GB Development Squad (profile at British Orienteering.)
_British Champs Podium 2026, photo: Rob Lines
W21E
- Daisy May McNamara (Edinburgh University) 86.31
- Isobel Howard (Edinburgh University) 87.54
- Laura Robertson (South Yorkshire) 89.40
- Niamh Hunter (West Cumberland)
- Ellie Bales (Interlopers)
- Emma Crawford (Edinburgh University)
M21E
- Euan Tryner (South Yorkshire) 80.03
- Alastair Thomas (West Cumberland) 80.30
- Peter Molloy (Forth Valley) 83.12
- Charlie Rennie (West Cumberland)
- Adam Methven (Berkshire)
- Will Garder (Octavian Droobers)