Thanks for all the beautiful people of Mauritius that are involved in this event with passion!
First day of checkings ✔️ in Mauritius
Mauritius 3 days – Last minute information
1. Friday’s Stage 2 will start one (1) hour earlier than originally announced = all start times have been moved one hour earlier. New start times are on the web site: https://www.parkworldtour.org/?page_id=56
2. On Friday (stage 2), there will be a buffet lunch served in the competition center. The buffet includes, for example, local deer meat, chicken curry, vegetarian option, rice, lentil dahl, vegetables. The price is 500 MUR including a 500ml water. Pre booking is advised latest on Thursday – you can prebook by sending a message to giulia@parkworltour.org or in event center. There will also be a bar open.
3. There will be ‘some’ water (served or sold) on every stage, but please take also your own water with you as the weather will be hot. Take enough.
4. GPS-coordinates for the parking of all the stages (you can use google maps to navigate):
Stage 1 (Palmar Beach): https://goo.gl/maps/hLwksPLsPAaMghc37
Stage 2 (Domaine de Lagrave): https://goo.gl/maps/73SWCw3Kj9c7b4vV6
Stage 3 (SSR Botanical Garden, Pamplemousses): https://goo.gl/maps/WbtZZYJRi83K8vnVA
Event centers are right next to the parking.
Presentation of Elite runners in Mauritius 3 Days
Several elite runners are taking part in Mauritius 3 Days, among them, Sprint World Champion 2022 Megan Carter-Davies. The presentation of all the elite runners in this post.
PWT Academy meets India/2
Recently, Giulia – Project Manager of PWT Academy, visited the Lovely Professional University of Jalandhar, Punjab (LPU) with the help of Dev Balhara.
Successful meetings were held with Dr Sorabh Lakhanpal, Associate Dean at Division of Students Affairs and Dr. V. Kaul, Professor and Associate Director – Division of Sport, who are keen to introduce orienteering and add a new sport to the 26 already practiced at the LPU.
The campus of the University is very big, 6km square, more than 25.000 students, 150 programs, students from more than 26 countries, and it is suitable to host both orienteering seminars but also orienteering races.
PWT and India
Recently, Giulia – Project Manager of PWT Academy, visited Dev Balhara in India.
Dev, back in 2020, was the one contacting Park World Tour with the goal of introducing orienteering in his country.
In 2022, PWT Academy, with the cooperation of IOF, organized an online seminar of 5 classes to introduce orienteering to 35 participants, mostly Physical Education teachers.
Some days ago, Giulia met Dev in person and started discussing practically about the possibility to introduce orienteering in the Indian school system, and to start thinking about an international event where orienteers from all over the world can run in this fascinating country.
It was a pleasure to present the 25 years Memory book of PWT to Dev, wishing for a long and bright cooperation.
Yannick Michiels is coming to Mauritius
We are pleased to announce that Yannick Michiels is joining us in Mauritus 3 days orienteering in November. Yannick has produced some great results this year, among them, bronze medal in WOC Sprint and 2nd Place in ASOM.
Mauritius 3 days orienteering is approaching
We would like to remind that the registration for Mauritius 3 days orienteering is still open.
Would you like to experience a whole new country for orienteering (and maybe also spend a nice holiday at the same time)? Join us in Mauritius in November. More info here: Mauritius 3 days.
During the year, PWT has handed a number of vouchers for elite athletes. The winners of ASOM as well as the individual sprint World Champions from Denmark have been awarded with vouchers including Mauritius 3-days with full board.
World Champion Megan Carter-Davies is already looking forward to joining the Mauritius 3-days orienteering. The other voucher winners are Simona Aebersold, Kasper Fosser, and Matthias Kyburz. If a voucher winner would choose to not take part in Mauritius, the voucher will be handed on to another elite runner chosen by PWT.
While the vouchers include Mauritius 3-days with full board, we would also like to help the athletes with their flights. Here, we are calling for your support.
You can support, for example, by buying the PWT 25-years anniversary book ‘Made for loving it’.
Another option is a sponsorship agreement with PWT. For this, please contact: jkpwt@hotmail.com and giulia@parkworldtour.org.
O-Ringen Academy 2022
PWT and PWT Academy was responsible for organizing the O-Ringen Academy 2022, arranged in conjunction with O-Ringen in Uppsala, Sweden, between the 22nd of July and the 31st of July. The O-Ringen Academy is a place for orienteering runners from different countries and on different levels, including beginners, to meet and exchange their experience and learn new. Last time when the O-Ringen Academy was arranged, in 2019, 45 orienteers from 13 countries participated.
This year, there were orienteers from Argentina, Colombia, Egypt, Hong Kong, Japan, North Macedonia, Slovenia, and Turkey.
The Academy activities consisted of several seminars related to orienteering, held by the PWT and also visiting speakers like Albin Ridefelt. The seminars included topics such as organizing an international orienteering event, map drawing, how to involve more the kids in the schools through orienteering, etc. The Academy participants also joined the Global Development Conference organized by the IOF, which included many interesting workshops about different aspect of orienteering.
During the days, the Academy participants obviously took part in the O-Ringen races while also presenting orienteering maps and activities from their own countries in the Academy tent. The evenings were filled with race analysis, shared dinners, and nice time together. The participants could also enjoy visits of some special quests: Peo Bengtsson shared the memories of his life in orienteering (6046 orienteering races so far!) and how O-Ringen started; and Per Ola Olsson presented how to start to draw an orienteering map.
In the tent, there was also the possibility to buy the PWT 25 years memory book as well as the new Memories of the Winners book, which includes stories from all the WOCs since 1966. The tent was also frequently visited by several world champions and elite orienteers, both current and more experienced ones.
Thank you for all the participants. May our paths merge again soon in the future of Orienteering.
ps. Don’t forget Mauritius 3-days Orienteering in November. Registrations are still open!
Mauritius 3 days vouchers to Kasper and Simona
It was not just World Championship medals that were awarded yesterday in Vejle, Denmark, as also vouchers for Mauritius 3 days were handed out to the best man and woman. Although, the Women’s winner Megan Carter-Davies had already won a voucher earlier this year in ASOM. Hence, as per the rules set by PWT for awarding the vouchers, the voucher was handed out to silver medalist Simona Aebersold. The Men’s gold medal along with the voucher was won by Kasper Harlem Fosser.
Welcome to Mauritius Kasper & Simona!
ps. The registration is still open – everyone is welcome! More info here: Mauritius 3 days.
Through hail and rain
First came the hail, then flooding rain down narrow lanes of Lagonegro, Italy 11.3.2006.
Martina Fritschy was one of the o-navigators among obstacles seen and unseen on the map.
”The most challenging sprint course I have ever run”, said the only woman to finish in a time below 20 minutes. Who? Find the flow in Made for loving it. Orienteering for a new generation – a book from the Park World Tour to You.