Philippine Dragon Boat Team snatches 5 gold, 2 silver medals at the 2011 Dragon Boat World Championships
As described by Dyan Castillo - “precision paddling, they topped the race and took the gold medal while their opponents had nothing but praise for the Filipinos.” This line was delivered when the Philippine Dragon Boat Team grabbed another gold medal on PDB Team's final campaign on Sunday in the 500-meter men’s division small boat event.
The fourth gold medal nabbed by the Philippine Dragon Boat Team was in in the 500-meters mixed event in the small boat division beating brilliant teams from Hungary and Trinidad and Tobago. Their third world title came from the Premier 1000m category (small boat) setting a new world record of 4:57.13 for the said event.
Last week, the PDB team snatched 2 gold medals, one from the 200m Premier Mixed and one from the 1000m Men’s category.
Despite from the denial of funding from the Philippine Sports Commission, the Philippine Dragon Team showed their superb talent in 2011 Dragon Boat World Championship with their championship trip funded by Lucio Tan’s Philippine Airlines as well as Asia Brewery’s Cobra Energy Drink.
Go...go...go! Philippine Dragon Boat Team!
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Photo: Ellen Tordesillas
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