Cebu City—The island province of Cebu rolled out the red carpet on Thursday to welcome local and international participants and guests from 52 countries for the 2018 Regent Aguila IRONMAN 70.3 Asia-Pacific Championship.
Sunrise Events continues its year-long tenth anniversary celebration with the holding of the race which drew a record field of 2,700 participants. Sunrise Events Founder Wilfred Steven Uytengsu said the government and the private sector are working together to guarantee its success.
“Together with the LGUs and government agencies concerned, we will continue our efforts in making the Regent Aguila IRONMAN 70.3 Asia Pacific Championship a rousing success and reinforce this event as the Crown Jewel of Asia,” said Uytengsu.
The race will feature the most star-studded cast to ever participate in an IRONMAN 70.3 race in the country.
The female participants include Radka Kahlefeldt (winner of this year’s IRONMAN 70.3 Davao and last year’s Subic IRONMAN 70.3), four-time IRONMAN 70.3 Philippines champion Caroline Steffen, 2016 IRONMAN Busan winner Amelia Watkinson and former IRONMAN Australia titlist Beth McKenzie.
The male cast is equally deep with 2016 world champion Tim Reed, three-time world titlist Craig Alexander and former XTERRA world champion and this year’s IRONMAN 70.3 Davao winner Mauricio Mendez, former IRONMAN Asia-Pacific winners Tim Van Berkel, Josh Amberger and Braden Currie along with former IRONMAN South America winner Brent McMahon.
Sunrise Events was established in 2008 by Uytengsu after it was granted the IRONMAN 70.3 license by the World Triathlon Corporation.
The vision of the company is to stage world-class events to put the Philippines in the sports tourism map of the world. Sunrise Events stages at least 13 events per year and has exclusive rights to the IRONMAN 70.3, 5150, XTERRA and IRONKIDS events.
The event is supported by the Province of Cebu, City of Lapu Lapu Mandaue City and Shangri-La’s Mactan Resort and Spa logistics and courier partner 2GO Express, official hydration partners Gatorade, official energy gel Gu, official swim cap TYR, official footwear and apparel Asics and official registration partner Active Network and official hotels BE Resorts Mactan, Crimson and Waterfront Airport Hotel.
For more details about the 2018 Regent Aguila IRONMAN 70.3 Asia-Pacific Championship visit sunriseevents.com.ph.