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 |
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Participants |
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Brunei |
|
1 |
|
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Columbia |
|
1 |
|
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Germany |
|
1 |
|
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England |
|
9 |
|
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HongKong |
|
1 |
|
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Italy |
|
1 |
|
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Japan |
|
6 |
|
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Malaysia |
|
93 |
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Mexico |
|
1 |
|
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Nepal |
|
6 |
|
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Philipines |
|
5 |
|
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Singapore |
|
13 |
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Spain |
|
1 |
|
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Sweden |
|
1 |
|
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Thailand |
|
1 |
|
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USA |
|
4 |
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