Orienteering
Among orienteers from 40+ nations, future long distance winner Thomas Bührer was one of the finalists at the Park World Tour Champions’ Week in Leibnitz, Austria 5.8.2000.
Which addition to the World Championships programme did the International Orienteering Federation do one day earlier? Experience a week that changed the orienteering world in Made for loving it.
A dense fog around Stirling castle made the race on 12.10.2014 somewhat magical… or creepy, as on some legs the runners had to pass a foggy graveyard.
Race the Castles weekend saw the runners compete in two different locations. Stirling and Edinburgh. Made for loving it tells the rest.
Carlo Rigoni almost got hooked at control 7, when the Park World Tour delighted the day of the boys at the pond in Maribor, Slovenia 1.8.2000. The first PWT race in the land also offered several orienteers another premiere.
What did Hanne Staff experience for the first time earlier on the course? Explore Maribor in Made for loving it.
Many PWT runners were amazed to see a cardboard version of themselves in the opening ceremony of PWT China tour 2016. Here, Antonio Martinez Perez testing the scale of himself.
Who started off the tour the best on 24.10.2016 in the Beijing Botanical Gardens and gathered the most points? Made for loving it provides the answer as well as a table of all the points by all the runners throughout the PWT history.
The Philosopher, a sculpture at the Kvarntorpshögen Art Hill in Kumla, Sweden, got good company on 26.7.2000. Jonathan Mbatia and the other Park World Tour orienteers however seldom stopped to enjoy the view.
How much had they climbed before reaching control 3? Lay back and learn more with Made for loving it.
Thomas Tan, head of Learnjoy, showed the runners the best route choice from the hotel’s station to the competition arena on 25.10.2016. Learnjoy has been a welcomed partner of PWT for several years now.
The race itself took place in Beijing Garden Expo Park, and was for sure a lot more demanding than the subway ride there. Made for loving it presents the results, comments, and maps from all the PWT races + a lot more.
Park World Tour event managers Sepp Hartinger and Jaroslav Kačmarčík got to test the sound equipment before the 105 minutes live TV broadcast from the race in Hamina, Finland 15.6.2000. A new punching system did its debut on the Tour, and for the first time, split times were radio-transmitted live from every control.
What is the competition area, Hamina fortress, shaped like? Look it up in Made for loving it.
Lone Brochmann took the “underwater route choice” on 26.10.2016 in Beijing Olympic Forest Park. At that point, the locals were already used to the passing runners.
A sprint-like middle distance? Map and runners’ thoughts in Made for loving it.
PWT 25 years anniversary book Made for loving it is now on a limited-time offer. Deliveries inside Europe will be without shipping cost.
Now is a perfect chance to get the book and learn about the history of Park World Tour and sprint orienteering. The book also has maps, photos, and runners’ comments from all the 118 PWT races, plus a table of winners, total points by all the runners throughout the history, and a lot more interesting stories.
Get yours now.
Two women within one point, three men within four. That Park World Tour season was one of the tightest ever. How would you have run to control 1 in Shanghai Botanical Garden 17.10.1999? And how many million students in the city were to get orienteering on their school curriculum, kicking off by trying the final course?
Enjoy all the controls and the words of the Shanghai Education Director in Made for loving it.