Posted: August 17, 2007

Triathlon: Top International Junior Athletes gather at 2007 BG Triathlon World Junior Camp

TISZAUJVAROS, Hungary - Some of the world’s most promising young triathletes have gathered in Tiszaujvaros, Hungary for the International Triathlon Union’s second annual BG Triathlon World Junior Camp, being held from August 16th to 27th. The camp has been organised by ITU and their long-term partner, global natural gas business, BG Group. The 35 athletes from 22 emerging and developing triathlon nations gather together to better their physical and mental training, skills and performance under the guidance of a group of top international triathlon coaches under the leadership of ITU Sport Development Director Libby Burrell. The twelve day camp is the pinnacle of the ITU and BG Group’s series of development camps which form part of the global Sport Development Programme. The participating athletes are aged 16 to 19 and were selected based on their recent national and regional performances, as well as having shown their potential to compete at a world championship and world cup level in the near future. Athletes will receive instruction on training, tactics and related sport science aspects from a number of the sport’s top coaches from USA, South Africa, Croatia, Spain and Australia. Running in conjunction with the BG Triathlon World Junior Camp is an International Coach Mentor Programme where 12 attending coaches will observe and learn about high performance coaching form the international coaching staff. The athletes participating in the 2007 BG Triathlon World Junior Camp are: Pan Americas Federico Oliva - Argentina Matias Fernandez - Argentina Luciano Taccone - Argentina Jason John Wilson – Barbados Pablo Ismael Cuba Montano - Bolivia Verônica Melo Martins - Brazil *Barbara Riveros Diaz (BG Scholarship Athlete) - Chile Felipe Barraza Rojas - Chile Carlos Javier Quinchará Forero - Columbia Andrea Chacon Luna – Costa Rica Roberto Vado Alfaro – Costa Rica Andres Miguel Cabascango Figueroa – Ecuador Henry Corado – El Salvador Edvin Armando Sandiago Chavez - Peru Asia Ho King Fun – Hong Kong Ivan Lo Ching Hin – Hong Kong Lee Song-Nan - Korea Heo Min-Ho – Korea Kimbeley Yap (BG Scholarship Athlete) - Malaysia Mohamad Alsabbagh - Syria Africa *Jennifer Henrisson - Maritius *Valery De Falbaire - Maritius Theo Blignault – South Africa *Vicky Van Der Merwe - South Africa Carlyn Catherine Fisher – South Africa Ashley Finaughty - Zimbabwe Europe Maric Ivo - Croatia Matia Milovan – Croatia Sara Vilic – Croatia Bojan Nikolovski - Macedonia Jovana Crnogorac - Serbia Ognjen Stojanovic - Serbia Joel Vikner - Sweden Mike Thoren – Sweden Gabrielle Zelinka – Hungary Barnabás Havlik - Hungary *Participated in the 2006 BG Triathlon World Junior Camp About International Triathlon Union · The International Triathlon Union was founded in 1989 in Avignon, France and now has over 100 affiliated national federations around the world · Triathlon was awarded Olympic status in 1994 and the ITU is the youngest International Federation in the Olympics. For further information visit Triathlon.org. About BG Group · BG Group plc is a global natural gas business. Active on five continents in over 25 countries, it operates four business segments - Exploration and Production, LNG, Transmission and Distribution and Power. BG Group seeks to support social and economic development in the communities where it does business by providing structured funding for community initiatives that match its skills transfer theme. For more information, visit www.bg-group.com. · BG Group’s sponsorship portfolio is called Energy for life. The partnership with the International Triathlon Union is one of four that make up the Energy for life portfolio. For further information vsisit: www.bg-group.com. Subscribe to the Runner's Web Weekly Digest