Expect an action packed final leg of the Paramount Ventures Tri Team Championships on Feb. 6 in the southern Cebu town of Dalaguete.
Back-to-back defending champions, Parklane Tri Team is seeking a grand slam but it will have to overcome current leaders in the standings, Tri Liloan and WS Tri Team.
Tri Liloan has 297 points while WS Tri Team is at second place with 267 points. Parklane Tri Team is currently at third with 258 points.
According to race director Benjoe Jimenez, each team can accumulate as much as 100 points in the final leg depending on the accumulated time of their top six finishers. With the top three close to each other, the final leg will prove crucial for those seeking the overall title.
“It will be an action packed race because Parklane Tri Team has to win this leg or else they will be dethroned by either of the two teams ahead of them,” Jimenez said in Thursday’s launching of the race at the Fuente Pension House. “Of course it’s the final leg so each participant will give their all in this race and the top three teams will surely field in a solid lineup of triathletes.”
The two previous legs of this series were held in Dumanjug town, southwest Cebu and Santa Fe in Bantayan Island, north Cebu.
Joining Jimenez in the press conference were Anton Regis, Jesse Arriola, Paramount Ventures Properties broker coordinator Johanna Lee Tolentino and sales group officer Haly Cuyag. They were joined also by Dalaguete town’s sports commission officer Randy Cisnero and LGU officer Almar Villahermosa.
Dalaguete’s LGU said it will provide logistical and financial support to the organizers for the success of the race.
The standard distance of the race will be a 1.5-kilometer swim, 40k bike and 10k run while the sprint distance will be a 750m swim, 20k bike and 5k run.
Unlike the previous editions, the organizers scrapped the relay competition in the sprint distance, leaving only the relay competition in the standard distance.
For more details about the race, visit Sugbutriathlon.com.
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