accompanied by loud shouts and the sound of gongs and drums

cheap jerseys usa xinhuanet.com Fuzhou June 11th sports special telegram (reporter Guo Qi Chen Wang) strong dragon boat race Yang style, accompanied by loud shouts and the sound of gongs and drums, carrying various members of the boat in Fuzhou Pu River dragon pool flying for crossing. 11, the first International Dragon Boat Federation World Cup opening opened in Fuzhou, 12 countries and regions of the dragon boat team to participate in the competition. In the first held in 200 meter medley straight road racing in the final, the team took the lead Chinese gold.

the opening ceremony, the International Dragon Boat Federation President Mike Haslam says?, dragon originated in the Chinese, has a long history of 2000, very happy the first dragon boat world cup held Chinese in the sport's origin.

it is understood, this session of world cup set up a total of 100 meters, 200 meters of mixed straight racing mixed straight racing, 500 meters of mixed straight racing, the Cheap soccer jerseys 400 meter relay race, 1000 meters sprint events five. The entire event lasted two days, more than 99 of total competition. The final rankings will be produced by the integral form, scored the highest total team won the world cup trophy.

men and women is a major feature of the dragon's world cup. In accordance with the relevant cheap oakley sunglasses provisions, the top 16 party only world championship may participate in the world cup, each team consists of mixed, half the proportion.

China team man from Fuzhou Puxia team, women's team from the Jiangsu Wujin team. The two teams during the Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon boat contest WenZhou Railway Station competitions have shown very good athletic state, respectively, achieved the best result this year (occupation man group Cheap basketball ncaa jerseys a total score of second and the occupation female group total score first).

In an interview with

, Fuzhou Pu under captain Liu Guowei said, after the dragon boat race, the two teams before the formal training, but also for the first time using the international standard dragon boat racing boat, to get to the tacit understanding, but for the gold medal, full of confidence China team.

it is understood, for thousands of years history of dragon boat movement originated in the early Chinese, is the representative of Chinese national traditional sports culture. In 1991, the International Dragon Boat Federation was established, the existing 77 members of the association.

2013 years, the International Dragon Boat Federation in the world championship, also founded the Dragon World Cup this new events. In order to further expand the influence of dragon boat racing, starting from this year, the International Dragon Boat Federation World Cup will be held every two years.

addition to the team competition, the audience will see arrange the display in the middle of the traditional dragon boat racing events, a total of 16 teams very folk customs of Fuzhou local traditional dragon boat teams involved.

First International Dragon Boat Federation World Cup by the International Cheap football Jerseys Dragon Boat Federation sponsored by Fujian, Fuzhou City, schedule will continue to June 12th.

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