Rankings watch
April 2025
"Orienteering" by Luigi Mengato is licensed under CC BY 2.0
ELO is enjoying its healthiest ever status in the British Orienteering rankings. Joel Atkinson is our first ever current member* to reach the top 100. Emily Atkinson and Ross Lyall are also in the top 500 with two more members in the top 1000. 28 ELO members have at least one ranking run in the last year and 13 of them have their full complement of six counting events …
| Position | Name | Points |
| 87 | Joel Atkinson | 8022 |
| 202 | Emily Atkinson | 7775 |
| 472 | Ross Lyall | 7381 |
| 682 | Jonathan Ellis | 7158 |
| 738 | Duncan Edmondson | 7090 |
| 1074 | Michael Atkinson | 6747 |
| 1077 | Peter Brownsort | 6745 |
| 1216 | Jennifer Atkinson | 6618 |
| 1400 | Tim Harding | 6427 |
| 1573 | Pete Younger | 6263 |
| 1638 | Robin Strain | 6206 |
| 2134 | Sheila Strain | 5726 |
| 2357 | Jamie Wilson | 5401 |
To appear in the rankings you need to be at least W/M16 and complete a regional event (or higher). You also need to be a member of BOF – not just of SOA. Your best six scores within the previous 12 months count to your current ranking position.
The rankings are designed to compare performances across events. So you gain more points for coming 10th in an event against a very strong field of highly ranked runners than for winning a race against competitors ranked lower than yourself.
With the annual JK Festival of Orienteering about to take place in Yorkshire we can expect some big movements in the rankings table. Many folk will leap up the table as they improve their complement of six scores – while others will tumble down as good performances a year ago no longer count for their total.
*Former ELO member Murray Strain was of course at the very top of the rankings for over a year in the last decade but he had transferred to Interlopers by that stage of his illustrious career.