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By Edrea Sun Since its inception many hundred years ago, the dragon boat race had traditionally drawn huge crowds in the thousands comprising rowers, supporters, foreign tourists, curious onlookers and locals alike. This time around the festival has come early and was held at the Kepong Metropolitan Lake Garden, the first ever water activity held
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Kuala Lumpur International Dragon Boat Festival
By Edrea Sun
Since its inception many hundred years ago, the dragon boat race had traditionally drawn huge crowds in the thousands comprising rowers, supporters, foreign tourists, curious onlookers and locals alike.
This time around the festival has come early and was held at the Kepong Metropolitan Lake Garden, the first ever water activity held in the
An energetic race
capital of Kuala Lumpur. Dragon Boat Racing continues to be an important event on the tourism calendar of countries involved in the dragon boat sport across the world. Most events have traditionally been held in globally prominent cities, recognizing the sports’ growing global appeal.
The International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF) and the Asian Dragon Boat Federation (ADBF) are the official international governing bodies for the water sport of dragon boat racing. They are non-governmental and non-profit organizations.
It was interesting to see that apart from being a tourist draw and an economic booster, the yearly staging of the dragon boat festival contributes to the country’s national agenda, notably unity amidst diversity of the multiethnic, multicultural and multi-religion population like Malaysia.
Races underway
The main organizer, Harlie Venture stated that the dragon boat races were already common in Penang, thus the reason to bring it to Kuala Lumpur. 800 participants from 8 countries including Malaysia formed 32 groups participated in this year’s event.
Frontiers was there to witness race 11 and 12 between MMU Malacca and Navy Paddlers Club “A” who were in the lead for the International Junior Mixed and International Open Mixed respectively.
However, speaking to some of the participants, we found out that Philippine team wasn’t too happy, “We raced in Putrajaya last year, heard it was the same organizers but this time around it’s not as good” said team captain, Jeffrey Tan.
The MMU team from Cyberjaya, stated that the race was much lighter than the previous one that was held in Putrajaya last year where all the Commonwealth countries were involved. The German team, seasoned racers for the past 12 years simple answer ‘was just to have fun’. “We will be back in Putrajaya in June for the next race. We will be back for as long as the team needs us,” they added.
With international teams coming back for more and the races being set as a yearly event, this would be an interesting spectacle to watch. Not
Universal, healthy and competitive sport
only will it be promoted as a universal, healthy and competitive sport, it will also cultivate and develop the spirit of goodwill, friendship and cultural exchanges amongst participants true to its objectives.
Winner: Kalimantan Timur Indonesia 1.52.50
1st runner-up: Caombodian Dragon Boat Team 1.52.69
2nd runner-up: Polis DiRaja Malaysia – PDRM 1.53.35
