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The tour continued today in Qinling Tianzhushan Scenic Area in Shanyang.
Compared to the flattish race yesterday, the terrain was quite different with a steep mountainous scenic area with lots of stairs. The courses went up and down and you really needed strength in the legs to be fast until the end. Besides the WRE, there were around 500 local runners taking part in other classes.

In today’s WRE sprint, the wins and the biggest prize money went to Czech runners as Jana Peterova and Tomas Krivda outperformed all the others. Jana climbed one position from yesterday and Tomas took his second win on the row.

Peterova was in a class of her own today, as the second fastest woman Lone Brochmann (NOR) was almost a minute behind. Emma Bjessmo (SWE) took another third place six seconds behind Brochmann.

Yannick Michiels (BEL) was second and Jonas Hubacek (CZE) third in the men’s class, so it was the same top three as yesterday. Michiels was still a bit in front of Krivda before the final big climbing legs, but Krivda was able to turn it around with a strong finish.

“It has been a good start for the tour. Really exiting locations for the races, yesterday in the old village and today under the mountain. I was really excited to come back here after the last year’s tour. I’ve managed to do quite well in both races by avoiding big mistakes, staying flexible, and running fluently throughout the races. I am happy to be able to keep my opponents behind me and exited for the two more upcoming races.”, said Tomas Krivda, who has started the tour with two victories.

“Fight the hills, fight the stairs, and also fight down the stairs. In my case that was the recipe for success today”, said women’s winner Jana Peterova, and continued that “I had a pretty clean race today – physically I didn’t feel very good, but I think everyone suffered today with jet lag and the tough course. Nice physical course and nice environment under the misty mountain.”

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The tour will continue next Saturday in Beijing. Stay tuned.

Manchuan Ancient Town, located in Shaanxi, China, set the stage for the first event of the of PWT Asia Tour 2024. Manchuan can be described as a traditional Chinese old town, which today offered some fast-paced sprint orienteering challenges. But small alleyways, numerous local people spectating in the streets, and completely different architecture from what most runners are used to, made the race trickier than what it looks from the map.

The tour was set off the best by Shuangyan Hao (CHI) and Tomas Krivda (CZE).

The women’s race was super tight as Jana Peterova (CZE) lost only three seconds and Emma Bjessmo (SWE) another three more to Shuangyan Hao, who has several good positions from World Champs sprints.

The men’s race was less tight with Tomas Krivda making a 13 second gap to Yannick Michiels (BEL) and 36 second gap to Jonas Hubacek (CZE).

“I really enjoyed it out there today. It was a lot of fun. It’s my first time in China so I am very excited to see what’s in front of us here. I really enjoyed not knowing beforehand what kind of terrain it would be today. It would be fun to have this kind of sprint experiences more often, where you don’t really know what’s coming. The course was good – quite normal, but the town was very different from my expectations adding to the challenge. I made a clear mistake to the second last control [note. which probably cost her the victory] but otherwise it was mostly OK. It’s cool to be here and I am looking forward to the upcoming experiences here.”, said Emma Bjessmo (SWE) after her race.

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PWT Asia Tour is organized in collaboration between Park World Tour, Beijing Learnjoy Sports Marketing, and local Sports Bureaus. The tour will continue already tomorrow with a WRE sprint in Qinling Tianzhushan Scenic Area. The last two events will take place a week later in Beijing.

PWT Asia Tour 2024 is coming!

Program starts from 11th October 2024, meeting at Xi’an airport within 17.00, as the first event will be already on 12th. Departure from Beijing airport on 20 or 21st October 2024.
There will be prize money in all events.

Please all runners interested, write to us before you book your flight ticket.
We will invite 20 MEN and 20 WOMEN

Program:
11-Oct-24 Arrival in Xi’an and bus to Shanyang Country Xi’an
12-Oct-24 PWT 1 Shanyang
13-Oct-24 PWT 2 & WRE Shanyang
14-Oct-24 Rest Day Xi’an
15-Oct-24 Visit to Xi’an Terracotta Warriors Museum Xi’an
16-Oct-24 Leaving for Beijing Beijing
17-Oct-24 Training Beijing
18-Oct-24 Sightseeing Great Wall/ The Palace Museum Beijing
19-Oct-24 PWT 3 Beijing
20-Oct-24 PWT 4 & City Orienteering Beijing
21-Oct-24 Check out and Departure Beijing

More detailed info will come soon: PWT Asia Tour 2024
All cost in China (from Xi’an airport to Beijing) is covered by the organizers.

More info:
Jaroslav Kacmarcik – jkpwt@hotmail.com
Giulia Zenere – giulia@parkworldtour.org
Thomas Tan – tanxp@orienteering.cn

An orienteering activity for male rural villagers or nearby towns was organised in the spectacular frame of Kakanmath Temple, Morena MP, a Shiv temple dating back to XI century, which according to the legend was build by ghosts because of its peculiar architecture. 

Orienteering is a great activity for these rural villagers because they don’t have access to any sport premises such stadiums or playgrounds. 

PWT Academy sends thanks to Dhyanchand Foundation, Mr Sandeep Singh, Mr Deepak, Mr Sanjeev Pandey and the New Delhi O-Club for giving this unique chance to these promising athletes. They have never seen not only an orienteering map, but any map before, and some of them run in sandals, but they completed the course with 100% success, no mispunches nor missing points! 

50 students of the Karan International School of Ambah, Morena – Madhya Pradesh India got to experience orienteering for the first time.

Thanks to Dhyanchand Foundation, Mr Kapil (director), the principle of KIS, Mr Sandeep Singh, Mr Deepak and the New Delhi O-Club, Mr Sanjeev Pandey for giving the chance of spreading the seeds of our sport to these new minds.

At the moment, PWT Academy officials are in India to help spread orienteering there. A series of events promoting orienteering are taking place.

Today, 85 students between boys and girls of the Dron Academy of Porsa, Morena – Madhya Pradesh India met orienteering for the first time.

And the girls of this school outperformed the boys!

Thanks to Dhyanchand Foundation, the principle of Dron Academy Mr Raghvendra, Mr Sandeep Singh, Mr Deepak and the New Delhi O-Club, Mr Sanjeev Pandey for making it possible.

The SportIdent equipment was donated by Park World Tour Academy to the New Delhi Orienteering Club, who have been active in spreading orienteering in India.

The second race of the Chongqing event was run today in Yidu Ancient Town, Dadukou, Chongqing. The terrain was divided into two very distinct parts as you can see from the map.

“It was another hot and humid day but a very cool course. First part was in an old village before a steep transport leg to a park above the village. I made 2 small mistakes today but was happy to win both races in Chongqing.”, said the men’s winner Yannick Michiels (BEL).

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