With less than three months remaining to the exciting third edition of the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore, set for 22 March 2009; Hi-Tri, as event organisers, are already in the midst of preparing for the largest Ironman 70.3 in Asia.

Materializing innovative ideas, and competitors’ feedback from past event, with the end result of providing the ultimate race experience for each and every competitor, the 2009 race looks set to be the best yet!

And for those who enter this event; they’ll have bragging rights like never before because not one, but two Ironman world champions will be joining in Singapore in March; as well as the world’s fastest Ironwoman!

Triathlon is a unique sport where each of you entering the 2009 Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore will compete alongside the very best of the best. You never know – you may even have time for a chat!

As at the turn of the New Year, the 2009 field is once again filling rapidly, with competitors from all over the world looking to make the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore THE EVENT to kick-start their triathlon season!

How big is the Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore? Well, even last year’s runner up, and newly crowned Ironman 70.3 world champion, Terenzo Bozzone has credited this race as one of the best. ”I raced Boise, Eagleman, Kansas, Vineman, Timberman and (the Aviva) Singapore 70.3’s and all of them were put on to an international level, had exciting courses and great people running the show.”

If Terenzo joins us in March the race would be the biggest in the world in terms of and elite field.

Right now the reigning Ironman World Champion Craig Alexander and 2007 Champ, Chris McCormack are set to go head to head against every former and reigning Aviva Ironman 70.3 winner in Olympians, Simon Thompson and Reinaldo Colucci.

And Yvonne van Vlerken the fastest woman on the planet over the Ironman distance is set to mix it up a little with reigning Aviva champ, Bek Keat, and inaugural winner, Belinda Granger. Adding in fourth place Hawaii Ironman finisher Erika Csomor, the women's field looks set to be the most international and most competitive women's field in Ironman 70.3 history!

To throw in another reason to look forward to race day on 22 March 2009, we are proud to reveal, for the first time, the 2009 Aviva Ironman 70.3 Singapore Finisher Top!

Till the next issue, the entire Hi-Tri Team wishes you the very best for both new years and safe training leading to a sensational season ahead!

Train safe and race hard.

Adrian Mok
Jeffrey Foo
Graeme Hannan
Nick Munting
Directors, Hi-Tri (Singapore)

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Esplanade - Theatres On The Bay

Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is without a doubt, Singapore's most exciting performance arts venue to date. Also lovingly dubbed “the Durian” by locals, after the prickly tropical fruit, the Esplande – Theatres on the Bay also houses a mall, cosmopolitan food outlets and the library@esplanade – Singapore’s first arts library with literature and audio-visual materials.

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