The China Taipei Triathlon Association and ASTC co-hosted the Team ASTC-ITU selection camp in Yilan, Chinese Taipei. Six coaches and seven athletes from four countries (Chinese Taipei, Malaysia, Mongolia, and Philippines) took part in the camp from January 25th to 31st.

The camp was aimed to enhance the development of athletes and coaches by supporting talented athletes emerging from developing National Federations. To make the camp more productive, we selected athletes who meet the certain level of performance via a pre-selection process.

“It is so good to see athletes and coaches from different countries interact, support and motivate each other during training sessions. This will be good for Asian Triathlon because we can support one another to bring up the level of our athletes. All of the athletes and coaches are now good friends. I look forward to seeing these athletes racing each other and victorious at the future events. Watching them push and pull each other in a cheerful mood,” Anthony Lozada said. 

“We really enjoyed the camp. I appreciate that my federation and ITU providing me with this opportunity to train here with international coaches. We were introduced to many triathlon specific drills, interval, techniques, and speed training. We experienced how our swimming, cycling, and running coaching has progressed through this camp,” Muhammad Tareef Zakaria said

“Athletes and coaches were devoted, professional, and hard working. I would like to thank all NF who have been supporting athletes and coaches for this camp. Over the years, I eye witnessed the progression of our sport throughout Asia with our development camps & mentoring projects,” said Luc Morin, ITU expert.

“Team ASTC’s goal is to help emerging countries to produce future Olympian. Our targeting group was athletes aged 18 to 20. We have selected athletes for the ASTC Team. We will support them to have more consistent training and who will get support to compete at international events in association with their nation federation,” said Ki, Woo Kyong, ASTC coordinator. 

Next project: an ITU Community Level TOs Seminar in conjunction with the WTS in Abu Dhabi February 27 to 28, 2015.