Reaching out to the Millions

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Impressions and Facts of the Park World Tour 1999 www.pwt.org Reaching out to the millions

On the eve of the Park World Tour final, on a boat cruise hosted by the Nordic Consuls, in the lights of the classic Bund, the Shanghai Education Director Sun Quan Xing starts to speak. - Orienteering is a challenging sport, which promotes both physical and mental health. It is suitable for all ages. We have now decided that it will be included in the education for all our 2,5 million students, from kindergartens to universities. Unforgettable experiences

The next day, the beautiful Botanic Garden in Shanghai is filled with young people - enthusiastic students, eagerly waiting to see the World Champions - and to try the course for themselves. Colourful balloons raise towards the skies, flowers and fanfare fill the air, with the orienteering stars in focus. - One of my best orienteering experiences ever, says multi-World Champion and Park World Tour initiator Jörgen Mårtensson, completing his last race of a 22 year career in the international world elite. Mårtensson, now strongly working for the orienteering development in China, shakes hands with Sun Quan Xing, while the new Park World Tour Champions, Gunilla Svärd and Allan Mogensen step into the spotlight. Surrounded by TV cameras and admiring students asking for their autographs, the orienteers feel like rock stars completing their World Tour in the most magnificent atmosphere. From the forest to the fortress

This year, the excitement of orienteering has amazed the crowds in five big cities in Europe and three Asian metropols. A total of 131 athletes from 23 countries have found their way in the fortress of Akershus in Oslo, past the historic university in Glasgow and through the huge Showa Kinen Park in Tokyo - proving that this sport can be practised everywhere. More than five hours of Park World Tour action has been broadcast on TV, with pictures in more than 125 countries. In China, a weekly series presents the sport to 60 million viewers. With Shanghai introducing orienteering on the school scheme for 2,5 million students - and Beijing applying for the 2008 Olympic Games - another important step is taken towards making orienteering part of the Olympic programme.

Anders Vestergård Park World Tour President STAGE 1 • MARCH 26 Farum Stage 1

Official Results Women Red, white 1 Heather Monro GBR 16.41,5 2 Gunilla Svärd SWE 17.00,3 and dynamite! 3 Johanna Asklöf FIN 17.06,5 4 Sabrina Meister-Fesseler SUI 17.11,2 Surprised passengers in the train from Farum 5 Lucie Böhm AUT 17.16,4 to Copenhagen catch a glimpse of a red and 6 Katarina Borg SWE 17.16,8 white flash passing outside. 7 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen NOR 17.17,6 8 Dorte Dahl DEN 17.36,1 9 Brigitte Wolf SUI 17.37,8 Carsten Jørgensen, the world´s fastest orienteer, is running 10 Reeta Kolkkala FIN 17.43,4 for gold in the first Park World Tour race of the season 11 Jana Cieslarova CZE 17.49,0 - the Tour premiere on Danish ground. 12 Eija Koskivaara FIN 17.51,7 Jørgensen dashes through the cheering home crowds, 13 Maria Sandström SWE 17.54,7 to beat veteran Jörgen Mårtensson with seven seconds. 14 Ellen Moen NOR 18.00,2 Supporters, journalists and enthusiastic spectators also 15 Katarina Allberg SWE 18.00,7 celebrate the third place of "home town boy" Allan 16 Birgitte N. Husebye NOR 18.04,4 Mogensen, while Heather Monro of Great Britain climbs 17 Maria Spasiuk UKR 18.13,0 the winners podium among the women, clearly faster 18 Karin Schmalfeld GER 18.29,1 than Gunilla Svärd and Johanna Asklöf. 19 Vroni König-Salmi SUI 18.40,7 20 Giedre Voveriene LTU 18.48,6 Spectators: 2000 21 Kirsi Tiira FIN 18.58,8 22 Anna Garin ESP 19.00,5 23 Barbara Baczek POL 19.21,7 TV coverage in total: 33 minutes 24 Agnes Simon ROM 20.06,9 • Danmarks Radio/TV 1 (30 minutes summary, 161 000 viewers) 25 Zhang Aixia CHN 28.56,0 • TV 2 (news report) Maria Høyer DEN DSQ Newspaper coverage: Official Results Men 10-20 articles in all main newspapers, including 1 Carsten Jørgensen DEN 14.00,3 • Jyllandsposten 2Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 14.07,7 • BT 3 Allan Mogensen DEN 14.17,5 4 Svajunas Ambrazas LTU 14.19,2 5 Jimmy Birklin SWE 14.19,3 6 Odin Tellesbø NOR 14.23,3 7 Rudolf Ropek CZE 14.24,4 8 Thomas H. Nielsen DEN 14.29,2 9 Grant Bluett AUS 14.37,8 10 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 14.41,4 11 Carlo Rigoni ITA 14.45,3 12 Petter Thoresen NOR 14.54,9 13 Michal Jedlicka CZE 15.00,2 14 Daniel Giger SUI 15.00,6 15 Mikael Boström SWE 15.01,2 16 Johan Näsman SWE 15.03,4 17 Jani Lakanen FIN 15.14,7 18 Juha Peltola FIN 15.15,5 19 Gabor Domonyik HUN 15.20,6 20 Robert Banach POL 15.27,1 21 Chris Terkelsen DEN 15.35,8 22 Stepen Palmer GBR 15.41,6 23 Erik Aibast EST 16.12,9 24 Liu Shucheng CHN 18.10,1 Valentin Novikov RUS DSQ Yuri Omeltchenko UKR DNF STAGE 2 • APRIL 23 Stockholm Stage 2

Official Results Women On top of the world 1 Maria Sandström SWE 18:36,4 No fear for the bears, growling in their cave 2 Hanne Staff NOR 18:36,5 3 Johanna Asklöf FIN 18:40.0 half-way around the course. No fear for the 4 Liisa Anttila FIN 18:43,0 world stars, suddenly placed in the great 5 Lucie Böhm AUT 18:50,7 outdoor museum of Skansen, in the middle 6 Heather Monro GBR 18:53,7 7 Vroni König-Salmi SUI 19:06,4 of Stockholm: 8 Reeta Kolkkala FIN 19:06,6 9 Eija Koskivaara FIN 19:07,2 Maria Sandström is unstoppable this sunny day, finding 10 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen NOR 19:07,8 the controls smoother than anyone else. Rushing onto 11 Dorte Dahl DEN 19:13,1 the stage, well-known all over Sweden from concerts 12 Karolina Arewång SWE 19:13,5 and TV shows, she scores a time only one tenth of a 13 Birgitte N. Husebye NOR 19:13,7 second faster than World Champion Hanne Staff. 14 Sabrina Meister-Fesseler SUI 19:21,0 Sandström jumps towards the skies, as Rudolf Ropek, 15 Katarina Allberg SWE 19:34,0 chased by a Trans World Sport TV team runs towards 16 Katarina Borg SWE 19:36,0 his tenth victory in the four year Park World 17 Jana Cieslarova CZE 19:48,7 Tour history. A terrific venue for a park race, says Odin 18 Gunilla Svärd SWE 20:15,2 Tellesbø of Norway, bronze medallist among the men, 19 Barbara Baczek POL 20:17,1 right behind his compatriote Kjetil Bjørlo. 20 Brigitte Wolf SUI 20:43,2 21 Tracy Bluett AUS 20:46,8 Spectators: 3000 22 Külli Kaljus EST 20:59,0 23 Giedre Voveriene LTU 21:08,9 TV coverage in total: 32 minutes 24 Irina Mikhalko RUS 25:54,4 25 Tang Wanhui CHN 28:29,0 • Swedish Television/TV 1 (5 minutes summary) Maria Spasiuk UKR DSQ • Trans World Sport (7 minutes special report) • China Education TV (20 minutes special summary) Official Results Men Radio coverage in total: 30 minutes 1 Rudolf Ropek CZE 15:14,0 • Swedish Radio P 4 (live reports) 2 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 15:37,6 • Radio Uppland 3 Odin Tellesbø NOR 15:41,2 • Radio Sörmland 4 Yuri Omeltchenko UKR 15:43,7 5Bjørnar Valstad NOR 15:44,0 Newspaper coverage: 6 Grant Bluett AUS 15:57,2 7 Alain Berger SUI 15:59,7 Articles in 25 Swedish newspapers, including 8 Mikael Boström FIN 16:04,0 • Dagens Nyheter 9Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 16:04,5 • Svenska Dagbladet 10 Michal Jedlicka CZE 16:13,5 • Aftonbladet 11 Petter Thoresen NOR 16:15,8 • Expressen 12 Janne Salmi FIN 16:17,7 • Ericsson´s world wide magazine "Kontakten" 13 Juha Peltola FIN 16:22,1 14 Henrik Tryggesson SWE 16:27,6 15 Allan Mogensen DEN 16:29,3 16 Carsten Jørgensen DEN 16:30,2 17 Svajunas Ambrazas LTU 16:33,3 18 Peter Jacobsson SWE 16:33,9 19 Fredrik Löwegren SWE 16:41,0 20 Valentin Novikov RUS 16:43,9 21 Robert Banach POL 16:53,6 22 Carlo Rigoni ITA 17:03,9 23 Erik Aibast EST 18:52,8 24 Jon Duncan GBR 19:19,8 25 Liu Bo CHN 30:34,5 Jimmy Birklin SWE DNF STAGE 3 • JUNE 11 Turku Stage 3

Official Results Women Rock around the river

1 Gunilla Svärd SWE 18:04,1 The orienteers replace the rock bands, entering the stage 2 Lucie Böhm AUT 18:05,9 of Finland´s biggest city festival in Turku this hot afternoon 3 Reeta Kolkkala FIN 18:16,3 in June. The riverside in the ancient city is crowded with 3 Johanna Asklöf FIN 18:16,3 people - enjoying the show. 5 Hanne Staff NOR 18:17,6 From the restaurant boat "Black Rudolf" the VIP guests 6 Vroni König-Salmi SUI 18:45,9 watch Rudolf Ropek looking for the right route up the 7 Katarina Borg SWE 19:04,9 nearby hill. Jörgen Mårtensson - experiencing one of 8 Jana Cieslarova CZE 19:14,4 the trickiest park courses ever - threats the Czech 9 Brigitte Wolf SUI 19:16,5 Champion up close, but is beaten by one second. 10 Heather Monro GBR 19:19,7 As close is the fight for the gold between Gunilla Svärd 11 Eija Koskivaara FIN 19:26,4 and Lucie Böhm, with Swedish Svärd celebrating another 12 Sabrina Meister-Fesseler SUI 19:27,8 win on the evening´s banquet cruise on the Aura river. 13 Maria Sandström SWE 19:44,8 Unexpected top duo, hmm? The combination Ropek- 14 Katarina Allberg SWE 19:53,1 Svärd brings the winner 32 times the money from the 15 Külli Kaljus EST 19:56,9 Finnish lottery. 16 Maria Spasiuk UKR 20:37,0 17 Dorte Dahl DEN 20:49,7 Spectators: 3500 18 Tracy Bluett AUS 20:59,9 19 Giedre Voveriene LTU 21:00,5 20 Natalja Pletnejeva RUS 22:05,6 TV coverage in total: 112 minutes 21 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen NOR 22:11,1 • Finnish TV 1/Urheiluruutu (2 minutes report) 22 Liisa Anttila FIN 22:15,2 • Finnish TV 2/FST (90 minutes broadcast) 23 Juliette Soulard FRA 22:54,0 • China Education TV (20 minutes special summary) 24 Birgitte N. Husebye NOR 23:39,7 25 Liu Shijie CHN 37:14,4 Radio coverage in total: 40 minutes Kirsi Boström FIN DSQ • Radio Auran Aallot (30 minutes presentation) • Radio Sata (2 reports) Official Results Men • Radio Extrem/Yleisradio 1 Rudolf Ropek CZE 14:57,2 2Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 14:58,8 Newspaper coverage: 3 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 15:18,4 10-20 articles in all main newspapers, including 4 Allan Mogensen DEN 15:37,9 • Helsingin Sanomat 5Bjørnar Valstad NOR 15:42,2 • Hufvudstadsbladet 6 Grant Bluett AUS 15:54,8 • Turun Sanomat 7 Petter Thoresen NOR 16:04,5 • Ilta-Sanomat 8 Valentin Novikov RUS 16:10,2 9 Erik Aibast EST 16:12,1 10 Juha Peltola FIN 16:14,0 11 Matthias Niggli SUI 16:14,7 12 Jimmy Birklin SWE 16:17,3 13 Michal Jedlicka CZE 16:17,6 14 Odin Tellesbø NOR 16:25,6 15 Håkan Eriksson SWE 16:33,2 16 Svajunas Ambrazas LTU 16:34,5 17 Carsten Jørgensen DEN 16:49,0 18 Thomas H. Nielsen DEN 16:50,3 19 Michele Tavernaro ITA 17:03,0 20 Petteri Muukkonen FIN 17:13,3 21 Jani Lakanen FIN 17:13,5 22 Jouni Mähönen FIN 17:25,6 23 Jamie Stevenson GBR 18:11,2 24 Martin Terry RSA 24:39,9 25 Mao Jiaxin CHN 27:38,2 Yuri Omeltchenko UKR DNF STAGE 4 • JUNE 15 Glasgow Stage 4

Official Results Women Perfect ten 1 Hanne Staff NOR 18:00,9 2 Gunilla Svärd SWE 18:18,5 With a dip in the fountain, overlooked by 3 Heather Monro GBR 18:23,2 Glasgow University, the Park World Tour 4 Lucie Böhm AUT 18:31,3 orienteers mark their entrance on the British 5 Reeta Kolkkala FIN 18:38,1 isles. 6 Liisa Anttila FIN 18:39,5 7 Brigitte Wolf SUI 18:44,6 8 Dorte Dahl DEN 18:49,1 The tenth country in the Tour history is conquered, as 9 Johanna Asklöf FIN 18:49,2 Glasgow and Scotland host a race in historical 10 Katarina Borg SWE 18:51,1 surroundings, with the Celtics home game commentator 11 Sabrina Meister-Fesseler SUI 19:11,1 now introduced to another kind of top athlete. 12 Yvette Baker GBR 19:13,4 The football is replaced by map and compass - with 13 Maria Sandström SWE 19:17,6 Hanne Staff and Yuri Omeltchenko "playing the 14 Vroni König-Salmi SUI 19:28,0 bagpipes". 15 Katarina Allberg SWE 19:30,2 The Deputy Lord Provest, Bailie Jean Macey, together 16 Eija Koskivaara FIN 19:39,2 with the International Orienteering Federation President 17 Kirsi Boström FIN 19:40,9 Sue Harvey, congratulate the winners at the grand 18 Birgitte N. Husebye NOR 19:44,2 awards ceremony in impressing Kelvingrove Museum 19 Karolina Arewång SWE 19:47,9 and Art Gallery. 20 Jana Cieslarova CZE 20:01,5 21 Marcela Klapalova CZE 20:18,7 Spectators: 400 22 Eva Jurenikova CZE 20:41,2 23 Lorna Eades GBR 21:36,9 TV coverage in total: 23 minutes 24 Kelly Limond GBR 22:28,1 25 Laia Santamaria ESP 24:04,4 • BBC Scotland (3 minutes special report) Liu Shijie CHN DSQ • China Education TV (20 minutes special summary) Newspaper coverage: Official Results Men • The Herald (3 articles) 1 Yuri Omeltchenko UKR 15:09,9 • Compass Sport 2 Rudolf Ropek CZE 15:12,1 3Bjørnar Valstad NOR 15:16,3 4 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 15:21,6 5 Bernt Bjørnsgaard NOR 15:27,1 6 Allan Mogensen DEN 15:30,0 7 Odin Tellesbø NOR 15:31,8 8 Gabor Domonyik HUN 15:36,0 9 Grant Bluett AUS 15:38,0 10 Jon Duncan GBR 15:47,9 11 Jamie Stevenson GBR 15:54,6 12 Svajunas Ambrazas LTU 16:08,8 13 Carsten Jørgensen DEN 16:09,4 14 Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 16:10,8 15 Urs Müller SUI 16:13,0 16 Håkan Eriksson SWE 16:23,5 17 Jimmy Birklin SWE 16:28,3 18 Jani Lakanen FIN 16:35,5 19 Michal Jedlicka CZE 16:35,8 20 Juha Peltola FIN 16:37,0 21 Mikael Boström FIN 16:38,0 22 Libor Zridkavesely CZE 16:59,3 23 Patrick Walder GBR 17:03,6 24 Jonathan Musgrave GBR 17:08,7 25 Richard Wren GBR 17:15,1 26 Mao Jiaxin CHN 19:00,8 STAGE 5 • AUGUST 14 Oslo Stage 5

Official Results Women Danish day in the 1 Dorte Dahl DEN 17.50,0 2 Johanna Asklöf FIN 17.53,1 Norwegian fortress 3 Birgitte N. Husebye NOR 18.04,7 4 Vroni König-Salmi SUI 18.05,1 The Norwegian Vikings return from the World 5 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen NOR 18.08,6 Championships with lots of gold and honour, 6 Gunilla Svärd SWE 18.11,1 but what happens when they meet the world 7 Katarina Allberg SWE 18.13,3 8 Katarina Borg SWE 18.24,1 elite on home ground in Oslo? 9 Lucie Böhm AUT 18.27,0 10 Heather Monro GBR 18.28,0 The national TV welcomes the Champions with a live 11 Maria Sandström SWE 18.45,2 broadcast from the Akershus fortress, next to the town 12 Hanne Staff NOR 18.52,3 hall square - but the 700 year old fortress labyrinths can 13 Hanne Sandstad NOR 18.55,8 not easily be mastered. 14 Marika Mikkola FIN 19.01,1 Super couple Hanne Staff and Bjørnar Valstad both lose 15 Reeta-Mari Kolkkala FIN 19.15,7 the plot early on in the course - and the day becomes 16 Jana Cieslarova CZE 19.17,4 a triumph for the Danes. Dorte Dahl and Allan Mogensen 17 Ellen Moen NOR 19.27,3 end up as winners, with Carsten Jørgensen sprinting for 18 Sabrina Meister SUI 19.38,0 second place. 19 Alix Young AUS 19.46,9 20 Zsuzsa Fey ROM 22.52,3 Spectators: 1000 21 Sun Xiaomin CHN 23.53,6 TV coverage: 80 minutes • Norwegian Television/NRK 1 Official Results Men (60 minute live broadcast, 117 000 viewers) • China Education TV (20 minutes special summary) 1 Allan Mogensen DEN 14.41,2 2 Carsten Jørgensen DEN 14.46,6 Newspaper coverage: 3 Yuri Omeltchenko UKR 14.51,2 10 articles in main Norwegian papers, including 4 Odin Tellesbø NOR 15.04,8 5 Tom Quayle AUS 15.05,5 • Aftenposten, (3 articles) 6 Grant Bluett AUS 15.06,6 • Vårt Land 7Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 15.14,8 • Several articles in local newspapers 8 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 15.15,9 9 Jon Tvedt NOR 15.19,7 10 Petter Thoresen NOR 15.28,6 11 Bjørnar Valstad NOR 15.30,6 12 Håkan Eriksson SWE 15.32,0 13 Steven Hale GBR 15.33,9 14 Ivar Haugen NOR 15.52,5 15 Lubos Mateju CZE 15.58,5 16 Juha Peltola FIN 16.00,1 17 Carl-Henrik Bjørseth NOR 16.13,7 18 Thomas Nielsen DEN 16.18,7 19 Mats Haldin FIN 16.20,6 20 Jonathan Musgrave GBR 17.12,4 21 Jin Xin CHN 18.27,7 Jørgen Rostrup NOR DSQ Tore Sandvik NOR DSQ STAGE 6 • OCTOBER 11 Tokyo Stage 6

Official Results Women For 100 000 eyes only

1 Gunilla Svärd SWE 16:36,0 More than 50 000 people come flocking into Showa 2 Dorte Dahl DEN 16:48,0 Kinen Park on the National Sports Holiday - the 3 Katarina Allberg SWE 16:50,6 anniversary day of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. In one 4 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen NOR 16:53,6 of the most popular parks of the big city, a new sport 5 Karolina Arewång SWE 16:55,3 is introduced - the first world-class orienteering race in 6 Johanna Asklöf FIN 17:08,4 Japan. 7 Sabrina Meister-Fesseler SUI 17:33,4 The athletes swish past the crowds, cross the dragonfly 8 Lucie Böhm AUT 17:47,7 marsh and the mountain stream in search for controls 9 Maria Sandström SWE 18:04,4 - finding their way back to the rainbow pool, where 10 Hanne Staff NOR 18:04,8 two Swedes score the fastest times of the day. 11 Jana Cieslarova CZE 18:35,2 Gunilla Svärd and Håkan Eriksson are honoured also by 12 Katarina Borg SWE 18:36,3 the Nordic embassies in Tokyo, inviting the orienteers 13 Yuki Takano JPN 21:07,1 to a special reception. 14 Shihoko Ochiai JPN 21:32,5 15 Nobuko Miyoshi JPN 21:32,8 1000 16 Yuka Kinnami JPN 21:37,9 Spectators: 17 Madoka Watanabe JPN 21:43,0 (56 256 visitors in the park during the race) 18 Naoko Kano JPN 24:37,5 19 Rika Tajima JPN 25:01,5 20 Hidemi Akaishi JPN 26:39,1 21 Xiao Huimin CHN 30:55,9

Official Results Men

1Håkan Eriksson SWE 13:34,9 2 Grant Bluett AUS 13:44,4 3 Yuri Omeltchenko UKR 13:58,7 4 Allan Mogensen DEN 14:08,6 5 Odin Tellesbø NOR 14:10,0 6Bjørnar Valstad NOR 14:31,7 7 Michael Mamlejev RUS 14:32,9 8 Juha Peltola FIN 14:37,6 9 Thomas H.Nielsen DEN 14:47,3 10 Rudolf Ropek CZE 14:54,0 11 Tom Quayle AUS 15:48,0 12 Koji Kashimada JPN 16:32,1 13 Hirobumi Kagaya JPN 16:34,5 14 Steve Holmes HKG 16:35,1 15 Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 16:56,8 16 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 17:03,8 17 Yasuaki Ishii JPN 17:15,4 18 Chikafumi Tsuchiya JPN 17:16,4 19 Takanori Arata JPN 17:28,0 Toshiyuki Matsuzawa JPN DSQ Gan Yixing CHN DSQ STAGE 7 • OCTOBER 15 Hangzhou Stage 7

Official Results Women In the heart of education

1 Dorte Dahl DEN 14.48,3 Four-hundred children wave their flags as the world´s 2 Lucie Böhm AUT 14.53,0 best orienteers enter the scene. Zhejiang University - 3 Karolina Arewång SWE 14.58,3 the biggest in China with more than 30 000 students 4 Jana Cieslarova CZE 15.04,7 - hosts the race in Hangzhou, in a warm and friendly 5 Hanne Staff NOR 15.06,3 atmosphere. 6 Katarina Borg SWE 15.11,7 The event in the beautiful city, surrounding the West 7 Maria Sandström SWE 15.15,4 Lake - Xihu - is covered by seven TV companies, with 8 Gunilla Svärd SWE 15.20,0 Australian Grant Bluett and Dorte Dahl of Denmark in 9 Johanna Asklöf FIN 15.20,7 focus at the winners podium. 10 Sabrina Meister-Fesseler SUI 15.22,0 11 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen NOR 15.28,5 3000 12 Katarina Allberg SWE 15.35,4 Spectators: 13 Zhang Aixia CHN 19.18,2 14 Zhang Yanxia CHN 26.59.4 TV coverage: 30 minutes in total News reports and summaries in • Qinan Jian TV Official Results Men • Pearl TV • Zhejiang Satellite TV 1 Grant Bluett AUS 12.15,5 • Zhejiang Education TV 2 Rudolf Ropek CZE 12.23,4 • Zhejiang Cable TV 3 Allan Mogensen DEN 12.38,7 • Zhejiang Entertaining TV 4 Yuri Omeltchenko UKR 12.56,9 • China Education TV (20 minutes special summary) 5Håkan Eriksson SWE 12.58,1 6 Odin Tellesbø NOR 13.02,0 Radio coverage: 2 minutes 7Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 13.02,1 8 Juha Peltola FIN 13.06,7 • Zhejiang Peoples Radio 9 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 13.08,9 10 Bjørnar Valstad NOR 13.12,1 Newspaper coverage: 11 Tom Quayle AUS 13.20,3 Articles in newspapers as 12 Michael Mamlejev RUS 13.20,4 13 Thomas H.Nielsen DEN 13.43,5 • Zhejiang Daily 14 Thormod Berg NOR 14.09,9 • Hangzhou Daily 15 Toshiyuki Matsuzawa JPN 14.19,6 • Zhejiang Morning 16 Li Deli CHN 14.31,8 • Metropolitan Express 17 Liu Shucheng CHN 15.04,8 • Zhejiang Youth 18 Jin Xin CHN 17.52,8 • Zhejiang Education STAGE 8 • OCTOBER 17 Shanghai Stage 8

Official Results Women An unforgettable 1 Lucie Böhm AUT 15.43,4 2 Jana Cieslarova CZE 16.06,5 experience 3 Dorte Dahl DEN 16.07,4 4 Sabrina Meister-Fesseler SUI 16.10,9 A colourful crowd of balloons fill the air, 5 Gunilla Svärd SWE 16.15,2 accompanied by fanfares and a storm of 6 Karolina Arewång SWE 16.26,5 applause. 7 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen NOR 16.34,8 8 Maria Sandström SWE 16.37,1 Thousands of spectators, gather by the fountain in 9 Katarina Borg SWE 16.43,1 Shanghai Botanic Garden to watch the final stage of 10 Johanna Asklöf FIN 16.48,7 the season - and the race gets as close as it can get: 11 Katarina Allberg SWE 17.02,9 Austrian Lucie Böhm cheers for her first win of the year 12 Hanne Staff NOR 17.12,5 and challenges Gunilla Svärd for the top position. Only 13 Zhu Qun CHN 22.06,9 one point separates the two, with Svärd scoring her 14 Tang Wanhui CHN 26.26,9 second overall victory. Grant Bluett uncorks the 15 Xiao Huimin CHN 28.29,3 champagne, being number one among the men again 16 Zhang Yanxia CHN 28.34,8 - and with the silver on the day Allan Mogensen breaks 17 Zhang Aixia CHN 31.25,6 away from Rudolf Ropek, climbing to the top of the 18 Wang Saiying CHN 34.56,7 total rankings. Surrounded by hundreds of eager children Li Haiying CHN DSQ asking for autographs, Svärd and Mogensen feel like rock stars concluding their tour in the giant Chinese city.

Official Results Men Spectators: 3000

1 Grant Bluett AUS 13.13,5 TV coverage: 70 minutes in total 2 Allan Mogensen DEN 13.29,7 3 Michael Mamlejev RUS 13.30,8 • Shanghai Cable TV (30 minutes) 4 Yuri Omeltchenko UKR 13.36,5 • Shanghai Oriental TV (10 minutes) 5 Rudolf Ropek CZE 13.41,3 • Shanghai TV (10 minutes) 6 Odin Tellesbø NOR 13.43,9 • China Education TV (20 minutes special summary) 7 Juha Peltola FIN 13.46,4 8 Tom Quayle AUS 13.58,1 Radio coverage: 5 minutes 9 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 14.12,3 • Shanghai Radio 10 Bjørnar Valstad NOR 14.16,9 11 Håkan Eriksson SWE 14.17,6 12 Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 14,19,7 Newspaper coverage: 13 Thomas H.Nielsen DEN 14.21,8 Articles by newspapers as 14 Thormod Berg NOR 14.40,2 • Xinhua News Agency 15 Toshiyuki Matsuzawa JPN 17.01,5 • China Sports Newspaper 16 Li Deli CHN 18.15,2 • Jie Fang Newspaper 17 Li Feilong CHN 19.05,6 • Wenhui Newspaper 18 Liu Shucheng CHN 19.18,8 • Xin Ming Evening 19 Zhu Huabing CHN 20.27,2 20 Yu Shouchao CHN 21.29,7 21 Ni Ronghui CHN 22.28,6 22 Jin Xin CHN 23.05,8 Gan Yixing CHN DSQ SUMMARY & FINAL STANDINGS

Impressions and Factsof the Park World Tour 98 and the China Mappers Clinic Summary As simple as success

Sparkling eyes of the young Shanghai students, astonished looks from the bypassers at Kelvingrove Art Museum in Glasgow, and enthusiastic, cheering crowds at Akershus fortress in Oslo. The Park World Tour has taken orienteering to town and the action and challenges of the traditional forest sport continues to find new friends all over the world.

Seven countries have been conquered in 1999, in an eight races series reaching out to millions of TV viewers. The compact competition concept has attracted the world stars of the sport - and a total of 131 athletes from 23 nations and four continents. In its fifth season the Park World Tour opens up for an even wider public, inviting all orienteering nations to compete in a special Champions Week - on the way to a breakthrough with an even higher status. - It can be a World Championships series within the next two years, and therefore the Park World Tour is one of my main goals in 2000, declares the reigning World Champion on classic distance, Bjørnar Valstad, seriously.

Estimated TV coverage: • 400 minutes in 125 countries • 20 minutes each from six of the races on China Education TV with an average of 60-80 million viewers, also second and third presentations not counted here • Special report from the Stockholm race on the Trans World Sport magazine, broadcast in more than 120 countries

Estimated radio coverage: • 100 minutes in 25-30 countries • 80 minutes in the organising countries

Estimated newspaper coverage: • 400 articles in 25-30 countries • 200 articles with pictures in the organising countries • 200 articles with pictures in 15-20 other countries throughout the world

Estimated Internet coverage: 100 000 visitors from all over the world Regular news reports with updated results, pictures maps and comments during the season Live reports and coverage from part of the races Competitions with special prizes for the www.pwt.org visitors Final Standings Women 1999

Rank Name Nation Points Stage1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6 Stage 7 Stage 8 1 Gunilla Svärd SWE 20 0 25 20 11 25 8 13 122 2 Lucie Böhm AUT 13 13 20 15 7 8 20 25 121 3 Dorte Dahl DEN 850825202517108 4 Johanna Asklöf FIN 17 17 17 7 20 11 7 6 102 5 Hanne Staff NOR - 20 13 25 4 6 13 4 85 6 Heather Monro GBR 25 11 6 17 6 - - - 65 7 Maria Sandström SWE 32533579863 8 Elisabeth Ingvaldsen NOR 9 6 0 - 13 15 5 9 57 9 Sabrina Meister-Fesseler SUI 15 2450961556 10 Katarina Borg SWE 11 09684117 56 11 Jana Cieslarova CZE 508005152053 12 Karolina Arewång SWE 0 4 - 0 - 13 17 11 45 13 Reeta Kolkkala FIN 6 8 17 13 1 - - - 45 14 Katarina Allberg SWE 11219174540 15 Vroni König-Salmi SUI 0 9 11 2 15 - - - 37 16 Liisa Anttila FIN - 15 0 11 ----26 17 Brigitte Wolf SUI 7079----23 18 Birgitte N. Husebye NOR 030017- - -20 19 Eija Koskivaara FIN 4750----16 20 Yvette Baker GBR - - - 4----4 21 Hanne Sandstad NOR ----3---3 Juki Takano JPN -----3--3 Zhang Aixia CHN 0 -----303 Zhu Qun CHN ------33 25 Ellen Moen NOR 2 0 - - 0 - - - 2 Marika Mikkola FIN ----2---2 Shihoko Ochiai JPN -----2--2 Zhang Yanxia CHN ------202 Tang Wanhui CHN - 0-----22 30 Külli Kaljus EST - 0 1 -----1 Nobuko Miyohi JPN -----1--1 Xiao Huimin CHN ------11

• Stage 1, Farum, Denmark, March 26 • Stage 2, Stockholm, Sweden, April 23 • Stage 3, Turku, Finland, June 11 • Stage 4, Glasgow, Scotland, June 15 • Stage 5, Oslo, Norway, August 14 • Stage 6, Tokyo, Japan, October 11 • Stage 7, Hangzhou, China, October 15 • Stage 8, Shanghai, China, October 17

Points: 1=25, 2=20, 3=17, 4=15, 5=13, 6=11, 7=9, 8=8, 9=7, 10=6, 11=5, 12=4, 13=3, 14=2, 15=1 Final Standings Men 1999

Rank Name Nation Points Stage1 Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5 Stage 6 Stage 7 Stage 8 1 Allan Mogensen DEN 17 1 15 11 25 15 17 20 121 2 Rudolf Ropek CZE 9 25 25 20 - 6 20 13 118 3 Grant Bluett AUS 7 11 11 7 11 20 25 25 117 4 Yuri Omeltchenko UKR 0 15 0 25 17 17 15 15 104 5 Odin Tellesbø NOR 11 17 2 9 15 13 11 11 89 6 Kjetil Bjørlo NOR 6 20 17 15 8 0 7 7 80 7Jörgen Mårtensson SWE 20 7 20 2 9 1 9 4 72 8Bjørnar Valstad NOR - 13 13 17 5 11 6 6 71 9 Carsten Jørgensen DEN 25 0 0 3 20 - - - 48 10 Håkan Eriksson SWE - - 1 0 4 25 13 5 48 11 Juha Peltola FIN 0 3 60088934 12 Tom Quayle AUS ----1355831 13 Michael Mamlejev RUS -----941730 14 Petter Thoresen NOR 4 5 9 - 6 - - - 24 15 Thomas H. Nielsen DEN 8 - 0 - 0 7 3 3 21 16 Svajunas Ambrazas LTU 15 0 0 4 - - - - 19 17 Jimmy Birklin SWE 13 0 4 0 - - - - 17 18 Bernt Bjørnsgaard NOR - - - 13 - - - - 13 19 Michal Jedlicka CZE 3 6 3 0 - - - - 12 20 Alain Berger SUI - 9 ------9 Mikael Boström FIN 1 8 - 0 - - - - 9 22 Valentin Novikov RUS 0 0 8 - - - - - 8 Gabor Domonyik HUN 0 - - 8 - - - - 8 24 Erik Aibast EST 0 0 7 - - - - - 7 Jon Tvedt NOR - - - - 7 - - - 7 26 Jon Duncan GBR - 0 - 6 - - - - 6 27 Carlo Rigoni ITA 5 0 ------5 Matthias Niggli SUI - - 5 - - - - - 5 Jamie Stevenson GBR - - 0 5 - - - - 5 30 Janne Salmi FIN - 4 ------4 Koji Kashimada JPN - - - - - 4 - - 4 Thormod Berg NOR ------224 33 Steven Hale GBR - - - - 3 - - - 3 Hirobumi Kagaya JPN - - - - - 3 - - 3 35 Henrik Tryggeson SWE - 2 ------2 Daniel Giger SUI 2 ------2 Ivar Haugen NOR - - - - 2 - - - 2 Steve Holmes HKG - - - - - 2 - - 2 Toshiyuki Matsuzawa JPN - - - - - 0 1 1 2 40 Urs Müller SUI - - - 1- - - -1 Lubos Mateju CZE - - - - 1 - - - 1

Points: 1=25, 2=20, 3=17, 4=15, 5=13, 6=11, 7=9, 8=8, 9=7, 10=6, 11=5, 12=4, 13=3, 14=2, 15=1 Facts Park World Tour Facts

Idea and Purpose

To increase the interest in and knowledge of orienteering, especially in the media and among new target groups, and to introduce orienteering in new countries. This is done by organising competitions, seminars and promotion events all over the world.

Organisation

The Park World Tour is a registered association (Föreningen Park World Tour), founded in 1995, with the endorsement of the International Orienteering Federation (IOF). The Park World Tour competitions are organised in co-operation with orienteering clubs and national orienteering federations.

Competitions

The Park World Tour series attracts the world´s top 25 female and top 25 male orienteers. They compete on 3 km courses in parks and city centres, in front of spectators and TV cameras, with winning times of 12- 15 minutes. The Tour started in 1996 and consists of 6-10 races a year. All races count in the overall standings. Prize money are awarded.

Seminars

The Park World Tour seminars introduce orienteering to students, top business managers and all kinds of target groups by means of lectures and practical exercises. In China, the Park World Tour has already organised orienteering seminars for thousands of students at several universities. The orienteering World Champion, Jörgen Mårtensson, and Anders Gärderud and Tomas Gustafson, former Olympic Champions and keen orienteers, are among the Park World Tour lecturers.

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