# Yvette Baker > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yvette_Baker > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Yvette_Baker.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Baker > Source revision: 1306391052 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|British orienteer}} {{for|the synchronised swimmer|Yvette Baker (synchronised swimmer)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2025}} {{Use British English|date=November 2016}} {{MedalTableTop | medals = {{MedalSport | Women's [orienteering](/source/orienteering) }} {{MedalCountry| {{GBR2}} }} {{MedalCompetition | [World Championships](/source/World_Orienteering_Championships) }} {{MedalGold | [1999 Inverness](/source/1999_World_Orienteering_Championships) | Short }} {{MedalSilver | [1995 Detmold](/source/1995_World_Orienteering_Championships) | Classic }} {{MedalSilver | [1995 Detmold](/source/1995_World_Orienteering_Championships) | Short }} {{MedalBronze | [1993 West Point](/source/1993_World_Orienteering_Championships) | Classic }} {{MedalCompetition | [World Cup](/source/Orienteering_World_Cup) }} {{MedalSilver| 1994| WC Overall }} {{MedalBronze| 1992| WC Overall }} {{MedalCompetition | [European Championships](/source/European_Orienteering_Championships) }} {{MedalBronze | 2000 Truskavets | Classic }} {{MedalBronze | 2000 Truskavets | Relay }} {{MedalCompetition | Nordic Championships }} {{MedalBronze | 1993 Sibbo | Long}} }} '''Yvette Baker''' (born '''Yvette Hague''', 1968) is Britain's most successful [orienteer](/source/orienteering). At the 1999 World Orienteering Championships (WOC) in [Inverness](/source/Inverness) she won the short-distance event.{{cite web |url=http://runners.worldofo.com/yvettehaguebaker.html |title=Profile: Yvette (Hague) Baker |access-date=2008-06-15 }} == Orienteering == Already at the early age of 15, she won the Elite class of the [Jan Kjellstrom](/source/Jan_Kjellstrom) Trophy in 1983. The same year she was a member of the British relay team at the [World Orienteering Championships](/source/World_Orienteering_Championships), making her possibly the youngest WOC participant ever.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} During the following years' WOC, she always had promising qualification results in the top 10, but could not match them in the finals. It was not until 1993, when she won Britain's first world championship medal coming third over the ''classic distance''. In 1995, she won silver medals in the short and classic distances, again not matching her 1st place of the qualification. After another 1st place in the qualification of 1997, in 1999 she won the short-distance event to become World Orienteering Champion. In 2001, after a winning her fourth consecutive qualification (1995/97/99/2001), she retired from the WOC with an 11th place in the long-distance event. Between 1983 and 2001, she took part in all 11 WOC.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} In domestic competition, she won both the [British Orienteering Championships](/source/British_Orienteering_Championships) and the [JK Orienteering Festival](/source/Jan_Kjellstr%C3%B6m_International_Festival_of_Orienteering) multiple times. The annual Yvette Baker Trophy and Shield inter-club junior orienteering competition in the UK is named for her.{{Cite web |title=British Orienteering |url=https://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/yvettebaker_heats_final |access-date=2023-07-25 |website=britishorienteering.org.uk}} == Fell running == Baker represented England at mountain runningSarah Rowell, ''Off-Road Running'' (Ramsbury, 2002), 123-25. and was a successful [fell runner](/source/fell_running), winning races including the Edale Skyline, Duddon Valley, the [Three Shires](/source/Three_Shires_Fell_Race), the [Langdale Horseshoe](/source/Langdale_Horseshoe) and the [Carnethy 5](/source/Carnethy_5).[http://fellrunner.org.uk/fellrunner/2003_February.pdf Graham Breeze, "Equi ad Circos (Classic Fell Races Part 3)", ''The Fellrunner Magazine'', Feb 2003, 24-26] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160601135708/http://www.fellrunner.org.uk/fellrunner/2003_February.pdf |date=1 June 2016 }}; [http://carnethy.com/ri_results/c5/c5_sum.htm Carnethy Hill Runners: Carnethy 5 Results Summary.] == Personal life == She was born in the U.S. to British parents. She grew up in England and then lived for several years in Denmark before moving to New Zealand. She attended the [University of Edinburgh](/source/University_of_Edinburgh) and was a member of [Edinburgh University Orienteering Club](/source/Edinburgh_University_Orienteering_Club); she was inducted into the Edinburgh University Hall of Fame in 2011.{{Citation needed|date=July 2023}} ==See also== * [British orienteers](/source/%3ACategory%3ABritish_orienteers) * [List of orienteers](/source/List_of_orienteers) * [List of orienteering events](/source/List_of_orienteering_events) == References == {{reflist}} == External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20071016212402/http://www.maprunner.co.uk/content/view/56/186/ Article about Yvettes WOC history] *{{sports links}} {{Footer Orienteering World Champions Women}} {{authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, Yvette}} Category:1968 births Category:Living people Category:British orienteers Category:Female orienteers Category:Foot orienteers Category:British fell runners Category:World Orienteering Championships medalists Category:Alumni of the University of Edinburgh Category:Alumni of Keele University --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Yvette Baker](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Baker) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvette_Baker?action=history)). 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