Park World Tour

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The Park World Tour (abbreviated PWT ) is an annual series of orienteering events . The first season was held in 1996. The races take place in cities and parks.

The aim of the series was, among other things, to give sport a presentation platform and to make it better known, especially in East Asia.

From 2006 the number of races decreased and the importance of the racing series decreased. There are still races (as of 2013) as part of the Park World Tour.

Overview

year run Venues
1996 4th FinlandFinland Vaasa , Laxå , Oslo , PragueSwedenSweden NorwayNorway Czech RepublicCzech Republic
1997 8th SwedenSweden Eskilstuna , Jyväskylä , Flisa , Laxå , Český Krumlov , Budapest , Graz , VeniceFinlandFinland NorwayNorway SwedenSweden Czech RepublicCzech Republic HungaryHungary AustriaAustria ItalyItaly
1998 10 Hong KongHong Kong Hong Kong , Beijing , Västerås , Helsinki , Assisi , Schladming , Olomouc , GothenburgChina People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China SwedenSweden FinlandFinland ItalyItaly AustriaAustria Czech RepublicCzech Republic SwedenSweden
1999 8th DenmarkDenmark Farum , Skansen , Turku , Glasgow , Oslo , Tokyo , Hangzhou , ShanghaiSwedenSweden FinlandFinland United KingdomUnited Kingdom NorwayNorway JapanJapan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
2000 8th FinlandFinland Hamina , Kumla , Maribor , Leibnitz , Fredrikstad , Bangkok , Shanghai , KunmingSwedenSweden SloveniaSlovenia AustriaAustria NorwayNorway ThailandThailand China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
2001 7th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Chrudim , Oslo , Bangkok , Nanjing , Shanghai , SeoulNorwayNorway ThailandThailand China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Korea SouthSouth Korea
2002 7th Czech RepublicCzech Republic Čechy pod Kosířem , Prostějov , Vierumäki , Karlsborg , Mulhouse , Alberobello , MateraCzech RepublicCzech Republic FinlandFinland SwedenSweden FranceFrance ItalyItaly ItalyItaly
2003 3 SwedenSweden Växjö , Jönköping , EksjöSwedenSweden SwedenSweden
2004 8th ItalyItaly Gravina di Ginosa , Lecce , Prostějov , Bratislava , Nagoya , Nanjing , Suzhou , ShanghaiItalyItaly Czech RepublicCzech Republic SlovakiaSlovakia JapanJapan China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
2005 7th ItalyItaly Otranto , Brindisi , Shanghai , Suzhou , Jinhua , Hangzhou , YuxiItalyItaly China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China
2006 2 ItalyItaly Palermo , LagonegroItalyItaly
2007 1 NorwayNorway Fredrikstad
2008 1 ItalyItaly Lonigo

List of overall winners

Men's

year 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
1996 SwedenSweden Jörgen Mårtensson Czech RepublicCzech Republic Rudolf Ropek DenmarkDenmark Carsten Jørgensen
1997 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Rudolf Ropek DenmarkDenmark Carsten Jørgensen DenmarkDenmark Chris Terkelsen
1998 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Rudolf Ropek UkraineUkraine Yuri Omelchenko DenmarkDenmark Chris Terkelsen
1999 DenmarkDenmark Allan Mogensen Czech RepublicCzech Republic Rudolf Ropek AustraliaAustralia Grant Bluett
2000 UkraineUkraine Yuri Omelchenko NorwayNorway Bjørnar Valstad NorwayNorway Odin Tellesbø
2001 UkraineUkraine Yuri Omelchenko RussiaRussia Mikhail Mamleev SwitzerlandSwitzerland Thomas Buehrer
2002 UkraineUkraine Yuri Omelchenko LithuaniaLithuania Svajūnas Ambrazas NorwayNorway Marius Bjugan
2003 FranceFrance Thierry Gueorgiou AustraliaAustralia Grant Bluett RussiaRussia Mikhail Mamleev
2004 SwedenSweden Johan Näsman FinlandFinland Mats Haldin NorwayNorway Øystein Kvaal Østerbø
2005 NorwayNorway Øystein Kvaal Østerbø United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Brickhill-Jones FinlandFinland Mats Haldin
2006 DenmarkDenmark Christian Nielsen Czech RepublicCzech Republic Michal Smola United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Brickhill-Jones
2007 NorwayNorway Nordberg is different FinlandFinland Johan Backman NorwayNorway Audun Weltzien
2008 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Matthias Müller FranceFrance François Gonon NorwayNorway Øystein Kvaal Østerbø

Ladies

year 1st place 2nd place 3rd place
1996 FinlandFinland Reeta Kolkkala EstoniaEstonia Kylli Kaljus SwedenSweden Marlena Jansson
1997 SwedenSweden Gunilla Svärd United KingdomUnited Kingdom Heather Monro AustriaAustria Lucie Boehm
1998 NorwayNorway Hanne Staff SwedenSweden Gunilla Svärd SwedenSweden Katarina Borg
1999 SwedenSweden Gunilla Svärd AustriaAustria Lucie Boehm DenmarkDenmark Dorte Dahl
2000 FinlandFinland Reeta Kolkkala NorwayNorway Hanne Staff SwedenSweden Jenny Johansson
2001 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Vroni King Salmi NorwayNorway Hanne Staff SwedenSweden Jenny Johansson
2002 NorwayNorway Hanne Staff SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simone Luder SwedenSweden Emma Engstrand
2003 NorwayNorway Anne Margrethe Hausken SwedenSweden Karolina Arewång Højsgaard SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simone Niggli-Luder
2004 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Simone Niggli-Luder NorwayNorway Anne Margrethe Hausken United KingdomUnited Kingdom Sarah Rollins
2005 Czech RepublicCzech Republic Dana Brožková RussiaRussia Tatiana Ryabkina FinlandFinland Riina Kuuselo
2006 SwedenSweden Kajsa Nilsson Czech RepublicCzech Republic Zuzana Macúchová Czech RepublicCzech Republic Dana Brožková
2007 NorwayNorway Anne Margrethe Hausken NorwayNorway Marianne Andersen FinlandFinland Yvonne Gunell
2008 SwedenSweden Lena Eliasson SwitzerlandSwitzerland Celine Stalder Czech RepublicCzech Republic Eva Juřeníková

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