Orienteering
Park World Tour is returning to China for the end of the year!
In collaboration with Learnjoy, 3 races including 2 WRE events are scheduled from 27.12.24 to 02.01.25 in the area of Zhejiang province, to kick the new year!
Entries are open for elite runners. We are looking for 15 male + 15 female runners from different countries.
Send your application via email to jkpwt@hotmail.com, or giulia@parkworldtour.org.
Selections will start soon!
The location of today was a luxuriant Botanical Garden, Pamplemousses in the north of the Island.
The terrain was flat with lots of tracks and beautiful huge trees and flowers and lotus pond, compass was not a big help.
Today we had a group of about 30 local young students participating and completing all the course. For the prize giving we had the honour to host Mrs Bella Saddul, Principle Physical Educators Organisers of the Ministry of Education.
Pictures and results below.
The next International 3 days Orienteering of Mauritius will be held in November 2026. Be ready!
Domain de Lagrave is a beautiful private area inland. It includes slopes and volcanic stones, streams and flocks of deers, luxuriant vegetation. The race of today was really enjoyed by the participants, despite the wet and the mud due to the overnight storm.
All the classes has to pass a stream, some of the participants had to swim!
Results and pictures of today:
Today at La Cambuse public beach we run on a map in a beautiful mixed terrain, with some controls next to a king palms forest, and some others on the beach with white sand and black volcanic stones.
Some young local runners joined the competition and everybody was very happy for the race!
Results and some pictures are here:
Park World Tour Academy is supporting the organisation of the second edition of this international event. Giulia Zenere and Jaroslav Kacmarcik are already on site to cooperate with locals, starting from checking the map in La Cambuse public beach, in the south east area.
Successfully conducted the 1st Rishikesh Inaugural Orienteering competition last 15th September.
40+ boys and girls participated. This is the 1st time that Orienteering was played in the state of Uttarakhand, India.
Only 5 Players had missed Control points. 2 courses were set for the players.
Special thanks to Deepti Sisodia, Kishori Lal Azad, Om Prakash Gupta Dp Raturi sir, Madam Poonam Chauhan ji, Madam Lovely Ramola ji, Dr Rakesh Semwal (National President All India Yog Sangathan) Shubham Pal ji for making this event fun and engaging for the young players, and Gaurav Singh for the coordination of the event. Also big thanks to Vrinda and Jhanvi who made sure no control points were lost or tampered with.
Maps was drawn by locals.
Park World Tour Academy is proudly keeping the full support to this group of locals who are working so hard to make all this possible.
Keep spreading orienteering!
A demo of orienteering was organized for the members of the Delhi Sports Journalist Association at the New Delhi Dhyan Chand National Stadium on the 29th of August.
Giulia Zenere PWT academy Project Manager, held a short seminar about orienteering, and Jaroslav Kacmarcik, of the IOF GDC, supervised the game.
A dozen sport journalists had the chance to try the sport and they enjoyed a lot!
10 control points inside and outside the stadium.
Another big step ahead for our beloved sport in this country!
Thanks Gaurav Singh and the Dhyanchand Foundation for the opportunity.
Last 29th August Park World Tour was honoured to be present at the celebration of India National Sport Day.
The Dhyanchand Foundation organised a celebration at the Dhyan Chand National Stadium, New Delhi. The event, dedicated to honoring the legacy of hockey legend Major Dhyan Chand, was attended by a host of sports celebrities, business personalities, and dignitaries.
On that day, Giulia Zenere, Park World Tour Academy Project manager, presented the sport of orienteering in India, in front of a large number of sport people dignitaries.
Jaroslav Kacmarcik, IOF Global Development Commission, was actively present and supervising the demonstration of orienteering held in the stadium.
Shri Manoj Tiwari, Member of Parliament, listened carefully and saw the potential of the sport in India, being orienteering a sport which can be played almost anywhere and with no need of infrastructures or special equipments, and can be played at any age, it is very much suitable to a large scale of Indians also in the rural areas.
We as PWT are deeply grateful to Shri Gaurav Singh, President of the Dhyanchand Foundation, for all his efforts in developing orienteering in India, together with the former international umpire Kishori Lal Azad, Sanjeev Pandey from SBI and Vivek Singh, General Secretary Dhyanchand Foundation .
We are announcing that we are planning a PWT tour in China for the second half of October 2024. Save the date!
Most of the races will be World Ranking Events, and all races will have prize money.
More info about places and dates will come later, but you can already send your application to info@parkworldtour.org: we are looking for 20 male + 20 female elite runners from different countries!
2023 ACTIVITY REPORT AND 2024 GREAT NEWS (read until the end!)
One year after the very first international competition, 3 Days Mauritius Orienteering, held in cooperation with Park World Tour and with the support of IOF and the Orienteering Ministry of Sport, many things happened in this beautiful country.
The local organisers held several activities to spread orienteering:
In May, for the World Orienteering Day, 4 different activities took place:
On 10th May, a training on Orienteering was organized for CAIE PE students at Q. Militaire SSS. Cluster of 4 Girls schools with over 50 participants
A race in Palmar Public beach on 13th May 2023
Activities were organised at MIE – Mauritius Institute of Education on 18th May 2023
On 19th May 2023 a Training on Orienteering for CAIE PE students of Zone 2 cluster is organised by PE Section for Boys n Girls (G10 n G11) at SIG SSS, Q. Militaire. 70 students in attendance. 21 Girls n 49 boys.
Mauritius orienteerign news
The biggest success so far occurred on 1st June during an Orienteering activity in Palmar beach: over 160 participants were on the starting list!
Local organisers worked very hard during this year to test and develop the orienteering skills of people of Mauritius but also the skills to organise orienteering events at different levels.
The interest of this sport is increasing and therefore the local Federation is planning to enlarge the orienteering family of the country by organizing another webinar starting in the month of January 2024, wishing that many more new people and energies will gather to get help.
The big goal is set for the end of 2024, and get ready for it… 3 Days Orienteering Mauritius will be back!
From 21st to 24th November 2024, with a brand new competition area on the south of the island mapped by the locals!
3 events, of which 2 will return to the spectacular areas of Pamplemousses Botanical Garden for a very interesting sprint race and to Domain de Lagrave for a challenging middle race!
So… book your flights, let’s het ready for a new orienteering adventure!