Triton competes in Macau dragon race

Manila, Philippines - The Triton Dragon Boat Women’s Racing Team will banner the country’s bid in the Macau Dragon Boat Races scheduled June 4-6 at the Nam Van Lake Nautical Center.

The team made an impressive showing in last year’s World Championships, held also in Macau, the basis for their endorsement as official team representative by the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation (PDBF) in lieu of the National Team which could not compete this year.

Composed of 25 highly competitive women, the Triton Dragon Boat Women’s Racing Team is actually a re-branding of the majority of the women’s crew from a former team.

 Under their former banner, the group has held the top three placers in Dragon Boat Championships for more than three years in the international arena – in 2007, the SAVA Sprints International Dragon Boat Championship in Singapore, and from 2007-2009, the Taipei Dragon Boat Festival. In 2008, the team landed on top of that year’s PDBF Annual Championships.

In the local race courses, the Triton Women’s Team won this month’s first leg of the Cobra Energy Drink PDBF Dragon Boat Regatta, beating Manila Dragons, De La Salle University and the Rowers Club Philippines (RCP) Sea Dragons. This race is the first of the four-leg annual series of the Philippine Dragon Boat Federation. Winners earn points for each quarterly leg and the team with the most number of points is declared the over-all champ at the end of the year. The Triton Women’s Team also won the 2011 Manila Bay Sea Sports Festival last March.