Orienteering
Hana Orienteering is organizing the trip, flying from Wien.
The final race of the PWT Asia “New Year” Tour took place in Ningbo University area today. Tomáš Křivda (CZE) completed his hat trick taking the third win in as many races. Women’s class saw a new winner as Hinako Inage (JPN) was the fastest. The podium was completed by Yannick Michiels (BEL) and Mihaly Ormay (HUN) together with Jana Pekarova (CZE) and Lone Brochmann (NOR).
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PWT wishes all the orienteering family a succesful new year 2025! More PWT activities are already planned for 2025 – see you there.
The first stage (WRE) was run in Ma’ao Village in Zhoushan. Both elite wins went to Czech as Jana Pekarova and Tomáš Křivda were the fastest. Second places were taken by Shuangyan Hao (CHI) and Yannick Michiels (BEL), with Aniko Koren (HUN) and Øystein Kvaal Østerbø (NOR) becoming third.
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The second stage (WRE) took place in Dinghai Ancient City in Zoushan. Tomáš Křivda (CZE) was again the fastest man with Shuangyan Hao (CHI) stepping up to take the win among women. Aniko Koren (HUN) also took a step up by taking the second place before Lone Brochmann (NOR). In the men, Yannick Michiels (BEL) took another second place before Xiaoming Liu (CHI).
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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!
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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.
The final stage of PWT Asia Tour 2024 was set in the areas of Beijing Winter Olympic Park and Shougan Industrial Relics Park, located in west-Beijing. The event center was built around the Olympics’ Big Air hill and the courses travelled in the park and in an old steel factory area – at times on two levels. Many athletes mentioned before their starts to be eagerly waiting to race as they had little information on what kind of terrain and challenges would lie ahead.
Same as yesterday, fastest woman was Emma Bjessmo (SWE), who beat today’s second Shuangyan Hao (CHI) by almost 50 seconds. Jana Peterova (CZE) on third place took her fourth podium placing on the tour.
In the men, the script was similar to previous races with Tomas Krivda (CZE) taking the victory before Yannick Michiels (BEL) and Jonas Hubacek (CZE) on second and third places. Krivda was clearly the strongest today with over a 40 second win margin.
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After the PWT event, a local Score-O event was organized in the same area with 3000 participants. The PWT athletes also took part, promoting orienteering to the map enthusiasts.
PWT Asia Tour 2024 is in the books but plans for future races are already set. Follow PWT web site and social media channels for news on the upcoming tours.
Third stage of PWT Asia Tour took place in Olympic Forest Park of Beijing. In addition to the orienteers, the sunny day had driven numerous locals to the park area to watch the autumn colors and fast moving athletes. The courses were physical but varying.
Emma Bjessmo (SWE) found another gear today and was able to secure the victory after two third places. Jana Peterova (CZE) was 23 seconds and Lone Brochmann (NOR) over a minute behind, so Bjessmo had a speed of her own today.
Among the men, Tomas Krivda (CZE) was again the best leaving Yannick Michiels (BEL) and Jonas Hubacek (CZE) to second and third places. Krivda and Michiels seemed to have pretty much similar speed, but small mistakes made the difference today.
Jana Peterova commented that: “I was hesitating a bit in the beginning because it was a forest sprint which I am not so used to. But I managed to get more focus soon and after it was quite okay. After the hesitations in the beginning, I did not make any clear mistakes, so I think Emma was just a little bit faster today gaining a second or two here and there. I enjoyed the race eventhough it was a bit different to what I am used to”.
Yannick Michiels, who took his third second place, commented that: “The course was not so difficult and very fast. I compared splits with Tomas and our speed was quite similar, but I made three smaller mistakes on the long legs hitting some greener areas that slowed me down. So the difference to Tomas became on those longer legs today. My speed is on par with him, so I will need a clean race to be able to take the win in the last race. After three second places, I am motivated to get it done tomorrow”.
The tour will conclude tomorrow, also in Olympic Park, but this time in the Winter Olympic Park of Beijing.
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