2010 Inductee World champion orienteer Jon Duncan was a University of Edinburgh sports bursar who twice won the coveted Vancouver Quaich – in 1996/96 and 1997/98 – for the best male sports performance. In 1994/95 he won the Captain ST Garner award for the best athletic performance by a first-year student, and the following year he gained his blue. He became a senior GB internationalist in 1997 – having excelled at World Juniors and World Universities level – and over subsequent years claimed a range of championships at British Elite level. For more than a decade, he regularly achieved top ten placings in world level competitions, which is a remarkable feat as he maintained a full-time post as a geologist. In 2003 he won the bronze medal at the World Orienteering Championships in Switzerland. And at the corresponding championships in the Czech Republic in 2008, he capped this achievement by winning the gold medal and becoming world champion - one of the first British orienteers to claim the sport’s ultimate prize. This article was published on 2024-05-13
