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Biathlon & Triathlon 2008
The first, symbolic, event has taken place on our island. It was a sports event, the first Duathlon & Triathlon.
48 hours after the start signal, the event organizers were relieved. They had won the bet and a second sport event will take place next year.
For the occasion, all the activists and daily militants for a different Koh – PhaNgan, where sport and culture has a place, were reunited for the event.
To my surprise, many local Thais came to join the event around the Triathlon. During these days I’ve seen them smiling, having fun, and the fact that they were there, (some came from far) made me realize that that wasn’t something that they would do in their culture.
At the beginning, Phangan-guide.com wasn’t duly authorized for participation. But we have been adopted, and were able to take photographs for one of the organizations, which hereby I would like to thanks again.
Saturday, the 15th of March, was the date of the Duathlon with 54 participants. The start signal was given at 08:00 AM, and the best finished the course two hours and fifteen minutes later.
The winner was Mr. Abdullah Shahron from Malaysia, followed by two Thais and a Brazilian. We will get back on them a bit further in this article.
Better take a look at the photographs instead the weight of words.
Did you know that in this course, two of the participants where French? A French woman called Elodie, and a Frenchman called Sylvain, (his time was 03H34 and ended 44th.
Both of them have finished the race, Elodie wasn’t really prepared for this kind of course.
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