1. Date: June 8, 2008

Venue: Miluo River, Miluo City, Hunan Province of China

2. Hosted by:  Leisure Sports Center of China General Administration of Sport

Chinese Dragon Boat Association

Chongqing Sports Bureau

People’s Government of Hechuan

3. Organized by: Leisure Sports Center of Chongqing city

4. Crews: Dragon boat teams invited from China and abroad.

5. Racing Events: Open Standard Boat 500m and 1000m Straight Speed Race.

6. Racing Method:

1)The updated version of the “Chinese Dragon Boat Racing Regulations” will be applied in the race.

2)All racing equipments (e.g. boats and paddles) shall be provided by the Organizing Committee. Participating teams are also allowed to bring their own paddles whose color must be the same.

3) Each team shall bring two of their national or regional flags approved by the IOC and on arrival one of them must be handed to the Organizing Committee for hanging at the regatta course. Please keep the other one for the Opening Ceremony, Welcome Ceremony, Closing Ceremony and awards receiving ceremony.

4) Each participant is kindly required to bring two photos (passport size) and submit to the competition department upon arrival for making accreditation and marshalling cards.

5) Each crew members shall wear clothes of the same color and design.

6)Method of drawing:

 (1) Straight Speed Race

7. Qualification:

1) Capable of swimming at least 200m in light clothing. To be proved healthy by hospitals.

2) Participants should be insured by themselves. The Organizing Committee would like to require all the paddlers wear life jackets. With written application form, team can race without life jackets.

8. Participation

  Each standard team shall comprise 28 persons, 1 Head, 1 Team Manager, 2 Coaches, 24 athletes (including 1 Drummer, 1 Steersman, 20 Paddlers and 2 Substitutes).

9. Ranking and awarding

1) Top 6 teams will be awarded as follows:

2) Teams not winning any prices will be awarded participation prices by the Organizing Committee of 3000RMB as participation prizes.

 

 

10. Entry and Registration:

1)     The Entry: Please fill in two copies of the entry form and the name list form and return them to the Chinese Dragon Boat Association and Miluo Sports Bureau by May 1^st, 2008 and May 15^th, 2008 respectively.

 

Chinese Dragon Boat Association

Contact Person: Mr. Li Wenyong & Amanda Qin Yi

Email: cdbadragon@126.com

Add: No.9, Tiyuguan Road, 100763, China

Tel: 0086-10-87182890 (Chinese) / 67128832 (English)

Fax:0086-10-67133577

 

Hechuan Sports Bureau

Contact Persons: Mr. Yin Dalun

Email: wangyeljs@163.com

Tel: +86-023-42750199

Fax: +86-023-42756710

 

11. Expenses

1)     The Organizing Committee will make all-round arrangement for food, accommodation and local transportation for each crew (28 number of people for standard boat team).

2)     People of earlier arrival, later departure and extra will have to pay for themselves.

 

12. Other matters

 1) Each team please arrive on June 6, 2008. If your team need to be picked up at the airport, train or bus station, please inform the Organizing Committee by May 30, 2008.

 3) Training day is June 7, 2008. Opening Ceremony, competition, closing ceremony and celebration dinner is on June 8, 2008. Departure date is June 9, 2008.

 4) Each team is kindly requested to make a good arrangement for arrival and departure for the organizer will provide the transportation for arrival and departure only once respectively for each team.

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We                                         (name of your team) confirm to participate in the 1^st Fishing City, Hechuan Chongqing China International Dragon Boat Invitational Tournament to be held from June 8, 2008.

 

*Event (Please √ the blank that you are going to compete)

 

We promise that all the participants are healthy, have been trained and can swim 200 meters with light clothes. We’ll observe all the regulations and rules formulated by the organizers. We will be responsible for the cost of injury; death and property loss during the racing or travel before and after the race. We will not sue the 2008 Chinese National Dragon Boat Month Series Races & the Organizer or any individual related to the tournament for the responsibility of the above-mentioned matters.

 

 

Team Leader:                    

Contact Person:

Address:

Tel:                                (Office)

Fax:

Email:

Representative Signature:

 

Date:

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 (Please return this form by May 15, 2008)

(Please send with the name list)

 

Name of the team (If possible, please write in Chinese)：

 

 

 

Brief History of the team:

 

 

 

 

Competitions participated in the past:

 

 

 

 

 

Awards in the past:

 

 

 

Collective Photo: