The Park World Tour in Nagoya 6.11.2004, was a first for many of the ones involved.
In the home of the Ochiai’s, the organisers – also Japan’s and Asia’s first World Championships hosts in 2005 – prepared for the event: Kimiya Ochiai, Chiaki Kudo, Yoji Seguchi, Yoshiki Nonaka, Koji Kudo, Shinichi Abe, Akihisa Ohira, Naohiro Yamaguchi and Shigeo Nakada. In Ryakuchi Odaka, many of the athletes got their first experience of orienteering in Japan, and interested students got to try the sport in the spectators’ race. Rachel Smith, New Zeeland, and Kyong Sa Ri, representing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, did their PWT debut, while Chiyoko and Nobuhiro Ishida got to study the Skogssport magazine, whose journalist Sarah Thörn got her first Japanese o-map, as did Park World Tour president Michael Thulin.
Which technical novelty was presented at the race in Nagoya?
Experience the orienteering development in Made for loving it – and find more of Michael’s pictures here.