Saturday, July 14, 2007

Mt Kinabalu International Climbathon To Be Held On August

The 21st Mt Kinabalu International Climbathon will be held earlier than usual, in the middle of August this year.This event was usually held in October every year in the past. The Mt Kinabalu International Climbathon is one of the 7-Series Buff- Skyrunner World Series Federation For Sports At Altitude circuit, and is chosen as the last leg of the series in previous years. However, Spain is chosen as the last leg for the series and Malaysia the 5th this year. This is the reason why The Mt Kinabalu Climbathon has to be held on August 25th & 26th instead of October 6th & 7th as planned. It was learned that the participation of the event has already capped at 150 as of yesterday, including participants from 16 nations.The highlight of this year will be the return of the Gurkha Regiment of Nepal who dominated the event for 6 straight years from 1988 to 1993.However, there is no response from both the reigning champions in the male category (Ricardo Mejia of Mexico)and female category (Anna Pichtrova of Czech Republic) so far. But the organizers are confident that they will come out to defend their tittles soon. There are officially 148 participants, including male and female, registered as of yesterday:
Country Participants
Brunei 1
Columbia 1
Germany 1
England 9
HongKong 1
Italy 1
Japan 6
Malaysia 93
Mexico 1
Nepal 6
Philipines 5
Singapore 13
Spain 1
Sweden 1
Thailand 1
USA 4

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