9th Dragon Boat World Championships

[TheMachine]

Singapore have picked up their first medals of the Championship, taking a silver and a bronze in the 2000m Junior Women and Open events.

Full race results here:

http://www.dragonboat2009.com/results

2000m Junior Women
2 (2) Singapore SNG 9:43.13

2000m Junior Open
3 (5) Singapore SNG  9:15.51

2000m Junior Mixed
5 (9) Singapore 1 SNG 9:29.84
7 (6) Singapore 2 SNG 9:53.61

[faz_55]

Go Singapore!   

[amdragon]

Congrats to Singapore, glad to see the success on the int'l scene.

[TheMachine]

Singapore took another 5 medals over the weekend in the Junior division including 3 golds!!

Full details attached.
               
The Philippines kept their crown as sprint champions to win the 200m Open for the second time running and destroyed the pack with a time of 40.0222 - knocking off 2 seconds from their time in Australia 2 years ago. There was a massive 7 seconds difference between 1st and last place, which shows the gap the Pinoys have opened up over the field.

Oh Canada dominated the 500m taking gold in the Mixed and Womens. Their Mixed time was 2:02.424 (9 seconds slower than America who won it in 2007).

Well done to team Singapore!

[transtris]

Singapore are World Junior Champions!
congrats junior and senior teams, all did singapore proud.
our flag will fly high in the intl scene now

[crimson]

My heartiest congratulations to Team Singapore!

[wassuprai]

Race Results (go to http://idbfworldchamps.com) - de ones that mattered

Premier Open 500m Minor Final:
Gold   : Canada           : 2.01.885
Silver  : SINGAPORE     : 2.03.633
Bronze: Czech Republic : 2.04.194

Junior Women 500m
Gold    : China        : 4.24.591
Silver  : SINGAPORE : 4.28.017
Bronze : Canada     : 4.31.465

Junior Mixed 500m
Gold    : SINGAPORE : 2.09.834
Silver   : Germany    : 2.10.017
Bronze : China         : 2.10.577

Junior Women 200m
Gold    : China         : 1.45.864
Silver   : SINGAPORE : 1.47.733
Bronze : Canada      : 1.50.412

Junior Mixed 200m
Gold    : SINGAPORE       : 0.51.488
Silver   : China              : 0.51.841
Bronze : United Kingdom : 0.52.073

Junior Open 200m
Gold    : SINGAPORE : 0.46.613
Silver  : Russia        : 0.49.021
Bronze : Germany    : 0.49.279

Junior Mixed 1,000m
Gold    : SINGAPORE : 4.18.46
Silver   : China        : 4.18.59
Bronze : Germany    : 4.20.02

Junior Women 2,000m
Gold : Czech Republic : 9.41.57
Silver : SINGAPORE    : 9.43.13
Bronze : China          : 9.52.20

Junior 'A' Open 2,000m
Gold    : Czech Republic : 8.53.24
Silver   : Canada          : 9.12.78
Bronze : SINGAPORE     : 9.15.57

MAJULAH SINGAPURA !!!!

[Nautilus]

Congrats to the Singapore team and the Juniors.  Other than a mention in Straits Times sports section, no other media coverage.  Why the lack of support by the media for such a spectacular achievement on an international arena?  Dragonboat not news worthy???  Wakeup SPH and support our sporting achievement!!!!

[Aspire]

Congrats to the Singapore team and the Juniors.  Other than a mention in Straits Times sports section, no other media coverage.  Why the lack of support by the media for such a spectacular achievement on an international arena?  Dragonboat not news worthy???  Wakeup SPH and support our sporting achievement!!!!

actually 联合早报 covered the news also. this makes the 2 major, mainstream newspapers in Singapore covering the event, so I wouldn't say it's a lack of support.

the next best thing is news coverage on TV but to do so, someone has to supply the broadcasters with some footage of the race itself. if anyone has it, perhaps can alert sports@sg for coverage, just as they did for the SDBA-AustCham race.

congrats again to the Singapore NTeam and Juniors. =)

[ken_nerve]

Struggling Singaporeans and lucky Kiwis
http://www.straitstimes.com/ST%2BForum/Story/STIStory_424735.html