Sabah Dragon Boat Competition

Site Category : Adventures/Sports The Sabah Dragon Boat Competition will be held at the Likas Bay, Kota Kinabalu, on a grand scale this year. The 21st Sabah Dragon Boat Competition 2006 will see very keen contest amongst the participating teams because Indonesia, Japan, Australia and Hongkong have shown their intention of sending teams to take part this year. The secretary of the Organising Committee, Zahcary Mobijohn disclosed this yestaerday. He said that these 4 countries had expressed their intention of participating, and they had requested relevant information on signing up already. The Sabah Dragon Boat Competition is an annual tournament jointly organised by Sabah Chinese Cultural Association, Sabah Tourism Board and Seri Travel Sabah Sdn Bhd. It will be held on a grand scale at Likas Bay on June 18 2006. There will be a new cagetory for this year's event - the Female category. This is to encourage all-female teams to participate. Zahcary said that a team from South Australia will be taking part in this event for the 4th consecutive year. The unique part about this team is because they won the Breast Cancer category challenge trophy in the 25th Penang International Dragon Boat Festival, and all their team members are survivals of breast cancer and supporters. They are very active in promoting awareness among women about breast cancer and urging them to do regular check ups. The organising committee hopes that this unique team will bring along another 3 all-female teams to take part in this particular category. He also hopes there will be many local all-female teams to participate. Although there will not be any cash prizes for this category, the Sabah Chinese Cultural Association will sponsore a challenge trophy for the winner. Besides, the Organising Committee agrees to revive the Kinabalu Challenge Cup category for males below 21, the Sabah Tourism Cup for all tour operators, hotels, travel agents, tour packages organisers. In summary, below are the categories :

	Category	Participants
	Open	Males above 21
	All-female	Female
	Kinabalu Challenge Cup	Males below 21
	Tourism Cup	Tour operators,hotel employees,travel agents

There were 52 teams including Brunei, Hongkong, Indonesia, China, Australia and local teams taking part last year. Hopefully there will be more than that this year. Any team interested to join please request for entry forms from Sabah Tourism Board at Gaya Street or Seri Travel Agency Sabah Sdn Bhd. Alternatively, visit the website below : Sabah Tourism Board Tel : 6088-232121/6013-8504007 (Zahcary Mobijohn)