Orienteering
Many historical sites have set the venue for PWT races throughout the years. The Summer Palace in Beijing is definitely one of them, being the stage for the race on 27.10.2010. On the sunny Danish double day victories in both classes went to Denmark with an additional double victory among the women by Ida Bobach and Emma Klingenberg.
Browse the pages of Made for loving it to find out about other historical sites along with the maps.
Flanked by the owner of the national dress, and her husband, keen orienteer Nam Seok Oh, Vroni König-Salmi was honoured as winner of the season in Seoul, Korea 28.10.2001. In the Olympic Park of the 1988 Games, new beginners got to try orienteering after the Park World Tour final.
Where was the last control placed? Explore the Olympic Park maps in Made for loving it.
Was the repeated advice from the amazing local speaker, here cheering the top 6 women of the PWT race that took place on 15.9.2012 in Changchun.
The advice still lives on among those present at the event. Another thing that lives on, are the memories. Made for loving it has a section called Voices of the athletes where several runners share their PWT memories from the early days to present day.
Roman Horky held a training on map making, while at Palmar beach. It consisted in one practical part in the forest and then a “question time” part.
All the interested people were already given the basic information about map making during the webinar from April to June, with the precious help of Andreas Kyburz, project manager of OCAD.
From 15th October 2021 Mr Roman Horky, a professional map maker, was in Mauritius to start to draw the first orienteering maps following the international standards.
He started from Palmar beach area, on the East side of the country.
Barbara Baczek arrived right on time for the ceremonies in Seoul, Korea, 27.10.2001. But what had happened in the terrain of the Park World Tour race?
Follow the steps of the world’s best orienteers in Made for loving it.
PWT’s road to China had a lot to do with the company PWT CHINA LTD, which later widened its scope and changed its name to Nordic Ways. Today they are promoting and organizing different sports events around China, including the Vasaloppet China. In the photo you can see the founder Gåvert Wååg with few runners in front of the Vasaloppet house, which provided the grounds for the PWT race on 16.9.2012 in Changchun.
Read the full story in Made for loving it.
“It is really inspiring to see and hear thousands of people cheering for you. This park offers tremendous orienteering challenges”, said Bjørnar Valstad at the Park World Tour in Shanghai, China, 25.10.2001.
Which Chinese poet gave name to the park? Share the inspiration of autograph-writer Valstad and hundreds of other orienteers in the anniversary book Made for loving it.
11/10 was a field day, which started with a visit to Land and Housing – Cartography dept., looking for basic map of the interesting areas for orienteering maps.
After that, Jaroslav Kacmarcik – IOF GDC and Giulia Zenere – PWT Academy, together with Mr John Domah, Mr Vishal Luchmun, Mr Khaiysaar Ahmad Soopun and Mrs Hima Seeboruth of the Mauritius Orienteering Federation, visited the offices of the Ministry of Education.
Dr Reetoo Neeshti Director Health &Wellness, Ministry of Education, Tertiary Education, Science and Technology and Liu Yuk Pat-Agathe Mary-Joyce, Ag. Senior PE Organiser, Ministry of Education, Tertiary Education, Science and Technology agreed on the idea of introducing orienteering in the schools, and proposed to standardize its teaching system, following what Mr John Domah already started in his zone.
The third essential meeting of the day was scheduled with Mr. Hon Jean Christophe Stephan Toussaint, Ministry of Youth Empowerment, Sport and Recreation.
Mr Toussaint fully approved the idea of implementing orienteering sport in Mauritius, both at a school level but also at a community level; supporting the goal to create community clubs as recreational activity all around the country and for all ages, pointing that it is a sport that also suits to families.
The Minister sustained the projects of Orienteering M for Mauritians and also for tourists, and embrace the plan of an international event next year.
A meeting was also held with Mrs Vyrum Pillay Munien, Officer at The Duke of Edinburgh’s International Award, a project by the Ministry of Youth which has a component like adventurous journey. The Officer was interested in enriching the Award with Orienteering to develop skills such as map reading and compass work, necessary to achieve the Silver Award which requires 42km walk in 2 nights and 3 days.
A final meeting in the Sport Ministry offices was with Mr Nagalingum Pillay Samoo, Director of Sport, who welcomed the delegation and assured to be ready for the proposed projects.
The delegation then continued to Moulin de la Poudre Forest to check the existing map to be implemented. The area looks interesting, flat, with clear forest.
Being in the north of the Island, a visit to Pamplemousses Botanical Garden was to be done. It is a popular tourist attraction in Pamplemousses, near Port Louis, and the oldest botanical garden in the Southern Hemisphere. It is populated with more than 650 varieties of plants among which are the famous Baobabs, the Palmier Bouteille, the ineluctable Giant Water Lilies, dozens of medicinal plants, a large spice garden and many more.
The venue is suitable for a sprint race and for some leisure time among its beauty.
The very long day ended with a meeting with Orienteering M in the evening, to discuss the short and medium term projects, the way to constitute officially the local Federation so to apply as temporary member of IOF, to implement orienteering both in schools and at a community level, and to support the organisation of an international 3-days event in november 2022. Are you ready?
Was the comment of one runner after the race in Wansheng which is remembered as one of the most unusual terrains PWT has encountered. It was 20.9.2012 this orienteering extravagance took place.
Map in full detail, along with the maps from all the PWT races, are presented in Made for loving it.
After the race, the runners enjoyed some time in a local stone forest.
