Venue Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park
Date Wed, 18th Nov 26
Starts 18:00 to 19:30
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Event Description
| Date | Wednesday 18 November
This is the postponed event from February 2026. |
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| Venue | Lady Dixon Park | ||||||||||||||
| Event Format | Northern Ireland Night Championships | ||||||||||||||
| Online Entry | . |
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| SI Entries |   |
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| Online Entry closes | Midnight, Wednesday 11 November | ||||||||||||||
| Registration, Start and Finish | TBC | ||||||||||||||
| Price |
Join a NI Club today (choose from LVO, FERMO and NWOC) and benefit from our reduced member rates for the rest of 2025.
*Member includes IOA and IOF.
**Family is the equivalent of 2 seniors + 1 junior.
There is no fee to hire an SI card if required, but lost cards are charged at £30. Sociable group / family fee where all are going round a course together – entry fee is per required number of maps i.e. one entry = one map. |
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| Terrain Summary | TBC | ||||||||||||||
| Previous Maps/Routegadget | TBC | ||||||||||||||
| Course Notes |
The NI Night Championships will have the following classes: Entry is by Class. Competitors can choose to run up a class, e.g. an M50 may want to run the Long course but must then compete as M Open. Conversely, if you want to run a shorter course then select the closest age class for that course – but note that you will be deemed non-competitive for the class.
Note that If a M/W14 wishes to run the NI Night Champs, they can only do so by being shadowed by an adult, and by being therefore non-competitive. LVO has a duty to juniors and so no M/W14 can run unaccompanied i.e. run competitively at the NI Night Champs. The adult must be an experienced orienteer holding current club membership who is capable of shadowing the junior for the entire length of the course. |
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| First Aid and Safety | There will be first aid and a qualified first aider available at registration. Registration is also a safe place for lost children to wait. Please do not come to the event if you are unwell. Please bring and carry any medication you might need, especially inhalers and EpiPen’s. If you come across an injured or ill person, please stop, help and get further help. There will likely be qualified first aiders on the course who can stop to provide support.All participants must return to download, whether they complete the course or not. This is to account for all competitors, ensuring everyone’s safe return.Courses will close and controls collected in at 8.30pm sharp. If you are still out on the course at this time return to finish and download immediately to prevent the event safety team searching for you. |
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| Kit requirements | Full body cover is mandatory. A whistle (emergency alert is 6 loud blasts per minute) is mandatory. A waterproof jacket may also be mandatory if the organisers decide the weather requires one, so bring one along just in case. A fully operational and charged head torch is mandatory. Carrying a mobile phone is advised. We intend to record this mobile number at the start and this will enable event safety officials to reach out to competitor not returned by course closure. |
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| Parking | TBC | ||||||||||||||
| Toilets | TBC |
Location
Sir Thomas & Lady Dixon Park
237 Upper Malone Rd
Belfast
BT17 9LA