Orienteering races are successful in the Royan region

A latest observe and in full improvement, the orienteering race (CO) is a superb success with the faculty public in explicit. This sporting self-discipline acknowledged in 1977 by the International Olympic Committee consists of finishing up on foot or by mountain bike an orientation course utilizing a devoted map and a compass, to achieve successively and as shortly as potential. exact crossing factors (milestones or markers).

On the territory of Royan Atlantique, the location maps are produced by the departmental orienteering committee and may be downloaded from the CARA web site, www.agglo-royan.fr/courses.

The improvement of the websites, together with the set up of a enough variety of beacons to keep away from the phenomenon of traces on the floor, is entrusted to CARA, inside the framework of its competence for the improvement and administration of mountain climbing trails.

Since 2015, CARA has thus organized seven everlasting websites devoted to orienteering, every geared up with forty punching terminals.

These free programs and open to all are discovered in the municipalities of Breuillet, Cozes, Etaules, Les Mathes-La Palmyre, Saint-Palais-sur-Mer, Saujon and Vaux-sur-Mer.

Since 2019, the Royan region has additionally had a world champion in orienteering: Lilou Pauly from the Charente-Maritime Orientation membership from Tremblade, which received gold for its first choice for the French crew, at the CO MTB world championship in Denmark (junior woman class).