Philippine Dragon Boat Team in 2011 International Dragon Boat World Championships.

The Philippine Dragon Boat Team holds the world record in the IDBF World Champs Premier Open 200m. The team is a consistent winner in the world and Asian championships, the South East Asian Games and other prestigious international events.

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Philippine dragon boat paddlers hope to land a medal to kick off Worlds bid

5:31 pm | Thursday, August 4th, 2011

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippines hopes to land a medal in the Premier 1,000m race on Aug. 4 to start off its campaign at the 10th World Dragon Boat Championships in Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S.A.
The event on Thursday will be held at 11:30 am Florida time (11:30 pm Manila time).
It was in the premier 1,000m event where the Philippine Dragon Boat Team won a bronze (3:55.32) at the 2007 8th Worlds in Sydney, Australia behind the United States (3:52.74) and the United Kingdom (3:53.29).
That bronze medal feat was better than the country’s fifth-place finish in the same event at the 2005 Worlds in Berlin, Germany, and the sixth-place feat at the 2004 edition in Shanghai, China.
But this cash-strapped national team will be defending the 200m Premier Mixed and 200m Premier Open events’ world titles that the Philippines won at the 9th Worlds held in Prague, Czech Republic in 2009 on August 5.
That Friday, the 200m Premier Mixed event’s preliminaries begin at 8:50 a.m. (8:50 p.m. Manila time) while races for the 200m Premier Open event start 2:35 p.m. (2:35 a.m. August 6).
The Philippines, in Prague, won the gold at the 200m Premier Mixed event (over China and Germany) and the 200m Premier Open event (winning by just a tenth of a second behind China,) with hosts Czech Republic salvaging the bronze.
At the 2007 Worlds, the Philippines reigned the 200m Premier Open event—winning the said race over China (by just 0.13 of a second) and the United Kingdom.
The Filipinos also won a silver in Prague at the 500m Premier Open event, rowing just by over a second behind the Americans.
The International Dragon Boat Federation’s biennial world championships have events for juniors, women, open, and mixed. Distances of the races are 200, 500, 1,000 and 2,000 meters. Competitors use what organizers call small boats (with up to 10 paddlers), standard boats (with up to 22 paddlers), and traditional boats (with up to 50 paddlers).
But the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation, prior to flying into Florida earlier this week, lamented the lack of funds the team has while preparing for Florida.
Even while two Lucio Tan-run companies, Philippine Airlines and Asia Brewery (which manufactures Cobra Energy Drink), had to be the team’s godfather, PDBF had to raise cash and in-kind donations to the Filipino public.

The contributor is a Journalism instructor at the University of Santo Tomas.

Filipino dragon boat paddlers win gold medal in Tampa Bay

3:28 am | Friday, August 5th, 2011
MANILA—Is being under-supported enough push to become a world champion and even a world-record holder?
Ask the cash-strapped Philippine Dragon Boat team as it let the paddling do the talking.
The team splashed its way to a third world title in the biennial International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF) 10th World Dragon Boat Championships by winning the Premier 1000m event (small boat) in Tampa Bay, Florida Friday.
On the final round of, the Filipinos’ 4:57.13 clocking set a new world record for the event.
Australia won the silver medal (5:00.09), while Hungary captured the bronze (5:03.71) in the race no. 27 in day two of the 10th Worlds.
The win in the 1000m Premier event (small boats) is Philippines’ first gold medal at the 2011 Worlds thus far.
A small boat in dragon boat parlance has up to 10 paddlers while, a standard boat has up to 22 paddlers.
The Philippines won two gold medals at the 2009 Worlds in Prague, Czech Republic in standard boats (not small boats, as reported earlier by this contributor)—the 200m Premier Mixed and 200m Premier Open categories.
It was reported that the Filipinos will compete in small boat events—and not on standard boats, which means the the paddlers will not defend their world titles in the 200m Premier Mixed and 200m Premier Open categories using standard boats.
But a schedule of the races, though with many blanks yet to be filled, found on the Internet showed that the Philippines is competing in small boat events.
In the preliminary round (race no. 24 of scheduled races for the day), the Philippines topped the race with a 4:50.79 clocking with Australia (5:02.59), and Hungary (5:09.87) behind.

PS:Keep it up guys! Even though you're under-funded and unsupported by the Philippine Government, you've proved to the world that despite all odds, you've prevailed. Team Pilipinas, Ahoo3x!


Latest news feed courtesy of Philstar.Com:

3 golds, 1 silver for Phl Dragon Boat Team
(philstar.com) Updated August 06, 2011 10:09 AM 
   

MANILA, Philippines - The Philippine Dragon Boat Team bagged two more golds and a silver medal as it continued its campaign in the International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF) 10th World Championships in Tampa, Florida.
A report by radio dzMM said that the Philippine paddlers snatched a gold medal after winning against Italy, Trinidad and Tobago and Japan in the 200-meter small boat division.
The Philippine team took another gold in the premier 200-meter mixed event and one silver medal in the 80 Premier 200-meter men's division.
The team set a new world record of 4 minutes and 57 seconds as it bagged its first gold in the 1,000-meter men's event yesterday.
The Philippine Dragon Boat Team is currently the defending champion in the prestigious rowing event. It's composed of men from the Philippine Army, Philippine Navy, Philippine Coast Guard and the Philippine Air Force.

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