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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.

29.10.2016, the last event of PWT China tour 2016, saw the PWT group head to the rural surroundings of Shunyi. Peter Hodkinson had no time for sightseeing when attacking the last part of the course.

There was something peculiar at the mid-part of the race. What was it? Find the answer in Made for loving it.

”Have we got one more map?” asks Gåvert Wååg ahead of the start in Hangzhou, China, 15.10.1999. Part of the students at Zhejiang University, the biggest in the land, are involved in the Park World Tour arrangements, and one of them wants to get out on the course to take pictures.

How many TV companies covered the race? Watch the answer – and more than 1000 photos in Made for loving it.

Shoes off, thank you, and please be seated for breakfast in Tokyo, Japan, 11.10.1999. Maria Sandström is on her way, with Park World Tour crew member Jan Fogeby and runners as Thomas H. Nielsen, Sabrina Meister-Fesseler, Håkan Eriksson, Steve Holmes and Tom Quayle around the table.

Shihoko Ochiai and Gunilla Svärd shared experiences after the race in Showa Kinen Park, together with organisers Shin Murakoshi and Kimiya Ochiai.

At what mountain did the PWT participants go training? Run with them in the anniversary book Made for loving it.

Do you sometimes feel like somebody’s watching you while orienteering? Even when you don’t have a GPS with you. Kristine Fjellanger and Quentin Rauturier might have gotten some experience like this on 24.10.2017 in the backyard of the Red Temple in Huairou, China.

How many extra pair of eyes were there in the forest? Count them in Made for loving it.

The Park World Tour race at Akershus fortress in Oslo 14.8.1999 brought orienteering back onto the main Norwegian TV channel, in a live broadcast. National team leaders Svein Jacobsen and Ragnar Weum offered the main actors a challenging course – watched by thousands on site and 117,000 by their TV screens.

What was the start interval at the race? Find your pace and the full map in Made for loving it.