Tanauan riders reign
in Skimfest at Borongan
By Philippine Information Agency (PIA 8)
September
10, 2010
TACLOBAN CITY – The Tanauan riders once again showed their dominance in the skimboarding
water sports as they ran away with the choicest prizes at the Borongan
Skimboarding Competition held on September 5, 2010.
For the third time in
just one week, the skimboarders of Tanauan,
Leyte once again brought home the bacon. The first was on August
29 when Leo Espada became champion at the
Palm Beach first
Skimboarding Competition in Hongkong. The second was on August 29 when
another Tanauan skimboarder won the Zambales Challenge in Iba,
Zambales.
Tanauan, Leyte Mayor
Agapito Pagayanan, Jr. informed the Philippine Information Agency that
the Tanauan riders bagged all the prizes at the Skimboarding
Competition in Borongan which was held in line with the town fiesta of
Borongan on September 8.
Mayor Pagayanan said
that Roberto Yanuario bested the other riders to become champion at
the Borongan skimboarding competition. The first runner up went to
Roderick Espada. The second runner up prize was won by Leo Espada
while the 3rd runner up trophy was claimed by Niko Cobacha.
All of these Tanauan
riders have at one time been declared as champion in the various
national skimboarding competitions held in Tanauan,
Leyte.
The Tanauan Mayor
expressed satisfaction on the development of the skimboarding
competition which started at Tanauan in 2001 and which is now popular
in the other places of the country.
Tanauan will always be
remembered as the birthplace of skimboarding in the country but as
former Tanauan Mayor Roque Tiu who started the development of the
skimboarding as water sports in Tanauan and in Leyte, he would rather
that Tanauan be also remembered as the Skimboarding Capital of the
country.
