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Park World Tour Orienteering Report & Results from race 6/8,
Tokyo, Japan 11.10.1999

Swedish Smash at the PWT Final Week Opening
Gunilla Svard and Hakan Eriksson winners in Tokyo
 

The fight for the total victory in the mens Park World Tour gets tougher, as
overall leader Rudolf Ropek made mistakes in the opening race of the final
week in Asia. The Swedes Hakan Eriksson and Gunilla Svard were on top of the
podium - among 50.000 visitors in the Showa Kinen Park in Tokyo - and Allan
Mogensen is now only one point behind Ropek with two races left to run.
Gunilla Svard scored her ninth victory in the four years Park World Tour
history and overtook the lead, 12 points ahead of Johanna Asklof of Finland,
who finished sixth in the Tokyo race.

"Great fun"
- It was great fun with a lot of people, and there was still space for us to
run. I missed around one minute in total and I thought this would never be
enough to win, said Svard.
Dorte Dahl, Danish winner in Oslo one month ago, had another great day
finishing second, 12 seconds behind Svard and only two before Katarina
Allberg of Sweden, climbing the PWT podium for the first time.

For 38 year old Hakan Eriksson, the Park World Tour season had been a
disaster so far, but now he reached the top with an almost perfect race.
"I run fast between the controls, but then slowed down not to make any
mistakes at the controls" explained Eriksson.
Grant Bluett of Australia lost by ten seconds and finished second, with Yuri
Omeltchenko as number three and Allan Mogensen as number four.
Dane Mogensen is now only one point behind leading Ropek, who was disturbed
by a competitor following him in the beginning of the course. Ropek finished
10th, while also Jorgen Martensson and Kjetil Bjorlo had difficulties with
the concentration - hardly having recovered from the seven hours time
difference between Scandinavia and Japan.

The two last PWT races will be run in Hangzhou and Shanghai this weekend.
 

Results in Tokyo 11.10.1999:

Women, 3,1 km 17 controls:
 1) Gunilla Svard             SWE 16:36,0
 2) Dorte Dahl                DEN 16:48,0
 3) Katarina Allberg          SWE 16:50,6
 4) Elisabeth Ingvaldsen      NOR 16:53,6
 5) Karolina Arewang          SWE 16:55,3
 6) Johanna Asklof            FIN 17:08,4
 7) Sabrina Meister-Fesseler  SUI 17:33,4
 8) Lucie Boehm               AUT 17:47,7
 9) Maria Sandstrom           SWE 18:04,4
10) Hanne Staff               NOR 18:04,8
11) Jana Cieslarova           CZE 18:35,2
12) Katarina Borg             SWE 18:36,3
13) Yuki Takano               JPN 21:07,1
14) Shihoko Ochiai            JPN 21:32,5
15) Nobuko Miyoshi            JPN 21:32,8
16) Yuka Kinnami              JPN 21:37,9
17) Madoka Watanabe           JPN 21:43,0
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

Men 3,1 km, 17 controls:
 1) Hakan 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 Tellesbo             NOR 14:10,0
 6) Bjornar 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) Jorgen Martensson         SWE 16:56,8
16) Kjetil Bjorlo             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.