EMILY Benham has had a chaotic week competing in the Mountain Bike Orienteering World Championships in Liberec, Czech Republic.

Britain’s top woman MTBO rider won bronze in the Middle Distance Race.

A strong finish from the Morgan's Vale rider left her just 10 seconds off silver and 34 seconds from gold.

Benham took fourth place in the Long Race and Short Race.

In other orienteering, 24 members of the Sarum cohort travelled to the Scottish Highlands to join more than 6,000 orienteers from across Europe to compete in the biennial Scottish six-day festival.

This year, the event was held in conjunction with the Orienteering World Championships and most of the Sarum contingent worked hard in helping the team of largely volunteers running the major competition for the world’s elite orienteers, before taking up their own maps and compasses in the six days of racing.

With the best four out of six races counting Sarum runners achieved some excellent results in the highly competitive and large fields and challenging terrain.

Ben Chesters (M35Long) took a fine eighth place as did Ian Peirce in M70L.

Alice Butt was 11th in W21Short and Toby Huthwaite 11th in M16B.

Other notable results were Lucy Butt (35th W21Elite), Jack Benham (42nd; M21L), Charlotte Thornton (19th; W70L), Jackie Butt (41st;W50L), Alan Yeadon (6th; M75S) and Liz Yeadon (13th; W65S).