The Philippines’ Longest-running Triathlon event SubIT to be held on April 29-30

By Wires April 17, 2017

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NOSTALGIA has gripped the country’s triathlon community in the run-up to the NTT ASTC Subic Bay International Triathlon on April 29-30 at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.

The country’s premier standard triathlon celebrating its 24th edition, the longest running event in the Philippines, has already over 800 entries in its registry book.

Members of the Philippine triathlon team led by 2015 Southeast Asian Games gold medalists Nikko Huelgas and Claire Adorna will face their first acid test of the year as they engage with several crack triathletes from overseas in the fast approaching NTT ASTC Subic Bay International Triathlon on April 29 and 30 at the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.

Their teammates John Chicano, Mark Hosana, Edward Macalalad, 2015 SEAG silver medalist Kim Mangrobang and Kim Kilgroe will be facing off with several entries from Japan, New Zealand, Portugal, Australia, Slovakia, Macau, Singapore, Korea, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia in the 1.5 kilometer swim – 40 Km bike – 10 Km run Elite.

The Philippine elite entries are all aspiring to qualify in the 2017 Southeast Asian Games triathlon event the selection of which will happen between late May and early June. After the event in Subic Bay, they will each resume their high-performance training in different parts of the world.

Similarly the Junior (16-19) and Youth Olympic Games (YOG) contests on April 29 will also attract many of the region’s best youth triathletes that keep the Philippine team’s Junior squad (Julius Constantino, Andrew Remolino, Vicky Deldio and Una Sibayan) and YOG squad (Wacky Baniqued, Joshua Ramos, Nicole Eijansantos, Karen Manayon and Lauren Plaza) busy.

AsiaTRI.com is an official media partner and will cover the event for the first time.