Park World Tour Academy

Thank you Peo Bengtsson for all your support to O-Ringen Academy and PWT Academy but also for the huge work you did for orienteering in the World.

We will keep up the flag you passed us.

Wishing you to continue navigate happily up there ✨

The victories went to Japan 🇯🇵 and Czechia 🇨🇿 with Hinako Inage and Jonas Hubacek mastering the snowy conditions the best.

The victories went to Japan 🇯🇵 and Czech 🇨🇿 with Hinako Inage and Jonas Hubacek mastering the snowy conditions the best.

Snowy Sprint in Beijing Garden Expo Park
The tour continued today in Beijing Garden Expo Park. With few minus degrees and after the year’s first snowfall yesterday in Beijing, there was fresh snow on the ground, which made reading the terrain even more challenging and also forced the runners to take it a bit carefully in tight turns. Garden Expo Park is a huge park area with several sprint maps of distinct character, and we have also seen previous PWT races take place in the area. This time the race was in the middle part of the park offering some very detailed orienteering challenges among the pavillions.

The victories went to Japan and Czech with Hinako Inage and Jonas Hubacek mastering the snowy conditions the best.

–“I’m really happy with my performance today! I knew I had a chance against Yannick in this kind of terrain. I enjoy uphill running combined with technical orienteering, which was exactly what today’s competition offered. I felt good and managed to find a good flow throughout the whole race. I also had enough power in the last flat part of the course for a final push”, commented men’s winner Daniel Vandas about the race of the last 6th December in Dinghai Bay Park.

–“It was a very challenging sprint course with a combination of the Dinghai Greenway, parks, and a very steep forest. It was essential to control my running speed to avoid missing the detailed park terrain on the map and find the best route choices”, said women’s 4th Tsz Ying Yu.

Winners of the race in Dinghai Bay Park 🇨🇳

Dinghai Bay Park set the stage for the 2nd stage of PWT December Tour last 6th December. The courses were divided in three parts with a steep and stairy beginning, tricky middle part, and flat and fast ending. It was Czech runners Daniel Vandas and Jana Peterova, who scored the fastest times of the day. Both of them had quite a dominant performance over the others with clear win margins.

Due to the many controls and short legs I struggled to get into a smooth flow. There was not much time to prepare the few longer legs and I felt I was always a bit behind with my orienteering. The course and terrain was very varied and I was anyway happy to take the win today!”, said Michiels after his winning race.