Challenge Philippines or South East Asia Championships? Learn more about the special SEA Elite category

By Wires February 17, 2015

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Challenge Philippines is happening this Saturday the 21st in Subic Bay. The race is sold out with almost 800 participants in between world class pros to age groupers and relay teams, but the organizers went one step forward to promote the sport in the region and are offering a special prize purse to the top athletes of both South East Asia and Philippines.

This incentive comes in handy in a sport that is still developing in this region and has high costs with equipment and traveling to races, and while the overall prize purse of 25.000 Euros is a nice attractive, the local athletes are still a few years back in terms of performance. With a separate category they can earn enough to afford more international races and slowly raise their games to maybe one day we have an Asian athlete winning World Class races against the international pros. Congrats to the organizers of Challenge Philippines for this incentive and we hope to see more races offering this bonus.