PARK WORLD TOUR '97 BUDAPEST

Competition information

Organiser: Hungarian Orienteering Federation (HOF), Budapest Medical University Sport Club (OSC)
Contact person/ PWT team member: Zoltán Hegedűs, Budapest 1088 Krúdy u. 16. tel.: 36-1-11-86-739
Chief of the competition: Ágoston Dosek, Budakeszi, 2092 Felkeszi u. 5. tel.: 36-23-452-295
Main protector: Mr. Gábor Demszky, Mayor of Budapest
Protectors: Mr. István Harcsár, state secretary, President of National Office for P.E. and Sport
Miss. Kutalik, Zsuzsanna Kardos mayoress of the 14th district
Financials: Head-V Sport Marketing Ltd.
Mihály Verb; Csaba Laki
Press officier: Ágnes Lipiczky (National Sport daily newspaper)
The competition takes place in connection with:Budapest Autumn Festival and the Budapest Music Weeks
Event Centre: Skating Centre, Városliget. The distance from hotel: 6 km, official transport with PWT bus will take about 40 min.
Type of terrain: typical town park, with lot of roads and paths, many artificial features, mostly open area and clean forests with old trees, the visibility unlimited, small thicket areas, no height differences, high speed even on the grassy area.
Maps: surveyed by Sőtér brothers in summer 1997, printed in scale 1: 5000
Course length: App. 3 300 meter, 16 controls
Course planner: Ágoston Dosek
Competition hotel: Beta Hotel Garden ***, Budapest, 1021, Tárogató út 2-4. Tel/fax: -(36)-1-274-2088
Traffic connections: Ferihegy International Airport of Budapest. By car cca. 545 km from Cesky Krumlov, highways from Linz via Wien to Budapest, cca.280 km from Budapest to Graz, (100 km on highways)

Time schedule of the event:

13.00        competition centre opens,



14.00-14.20  press conference, with the presence of world stars

14.30-14.40  presentation of the women runners

14.40-14.50  presentation of the men runners



15.01        first woman start,



15.25        last woman start,



15.40-15.50  reports with the best women,



16.01        first man start,



16.25        last man start,



16.35-16.50  reports with the best men,



16.50        prize giving ceremony, top 6 from both classes



17.10        mass-start for the VIP race,



17.20-18.00  public races and the course is open for public



18.20        prize giving ceremony of the public races

-19.00       closing hour of Széchenyi public baths

             (swimming pool, thermal baths, sauna)

20.30  	     banquet in Hotel Garden

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