Hector Haines of Ilkley is up to eighth place on the national orienteering rankings list.

Now an established member of the British men’s squad, Haines recently ran for GB in the World Orienteering Championships in France.

Meanwhile, his sister Florence kept up the family tradition with a fine fourth place in the long race at the European Youth Orienteering Championships held in the Czech Republic.

She was also placed second overall in the Future Champions Cup series (W18), which concluded with the final event at Pickering Forest.

The Pickering event included a range of colour-coded courses differing in length and technical difficulty, with Airienteers members showing up well.

Paul Liepins was runner-up on the black (longest) course, while English Schools international Joe Woodley from Guiseley won over the blue course.

Aire’s other winner was Alice Watson (W10), who was first round the white (shortest) course.

Other results for local runners at Pickering were (positions in brackets): Blue course: Howard Sawyer (20), Martyn Gill (23), Peter Avis (34), James Avis (39), Bill Fawkner-Corbett (40); green course: Sam Avis (24), Fred Ross (26), Tom Crowther (29), Gill Ross (31); light green course: Lucy Haines (4); short blue course: Janet Leake (16); short green course: Helen Woodley (5).