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Chaddesden Park – Saturday 16 May 2026
Results
Local Event
Level: D (Local)
The rain held off nicely for this event. It was nice to see so many families as well as regular orienteers. Families seemed to enjoy using the ‘old-school’ punched cards to register their visits to the controls, but others preferred using MapRun.
James Prince did all three courses, and quite a number of you did two out of three!
If you’d like to try any of the courses again or for Chaddesden Park, you can do this by installing the Maprun app from the app stores. You can select Events, near me, or choose from the folder:
> UK > Derbyshire > Derwent Valley > 2026 Spring Series >
Here are the results from Maprun:
Here are the control card results:
Short
- Reuben Terry 9 mins
- Noah Marshall 9 mins
- Oscar and Clifford Buxton 11 mins
- Maggie Marshall 12 mins
- Flora Marshall 12 mins
- Otis Buxton 15 mins
- Benjamin and Amanda Anderson 18 mins 42
- Lucy Smith 31 mins
Medium
- Maggie Marshall 22 mins
- Noah Marshall 24 mins
- Benjamin and Amanda Anderson 24 mins 52
Long
- Pat Squire 30 mins 58 secs
- Dean Smith 37 mins 4 secs
- David Palfreyman 40 mins
- Vivian Chung 49 mins
- James and Rebecca Andreson 53 mins
