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Nic Tinworth

The 35th edition of the Hong Kong Oxfam Trailwalker lived up to expectations, with pre-race favourites AWOO Team Nepal stampeding through the 100km course to finish in 11:01, only three minutes behind the 2013 course record set by another Nepalese team, Team Columbia S1, of 10:58.

True to their word, the team set off on a blistering pace and stuck to it the whole day, building up a lead advantage of 40 mins at the third checkpoint to finish a full two hours before another team would finish.
The team of Nepalese soldiers out to set new Hong Kong Trailwalker record
Had they not been directed off course less than a kilometre from the finish, Team 2XU (Dan Parr, Ander Kartik Jensen, Peter Lee, Nicol Boyd) may well have hit their goal target of under 13 hours, but 13:03 was enough to secure second place for the team that finished fifth last year.


Rounding up the podium, and taking first mixed team honours in the process, was Team Salomon (Claire Price, Jeremy Ritcey, Jacky Leung, Tom Robertshaw), in 13:12, finishing not far from the 2014 record of 12:52 set by all local Hong Kong team 2XU UFO.
An impressive performance indeed by two stalwarts of the local trail running scene in Price and Ritcey, and two rising superstars in Robertshaw and Leung.


Fancied Nepalese team blitzes Hong Kong Trailwalker field, finishing 100km cross-country race in just 11 hours

(L-R) Gurung Bhim Bahadur; Tamang Tirtha Bahadur; Tamang Purna; and Sunuwar Bed Bahadur of S05 AWOO Team Nepal team, first finish the Oxfam Trailwalker 2016 with 11 hours and 1 minute at Yuen Long. 18NOV16 SCMP/Edmond So

(L-R) Gurung Bhim Bahadur; Sunuwar Bed Bahadur; Tamang Purna; and Tamang Tirtha Bahadur of S05 AWOO Team Nepal team, first finish the Oxfam Trailwalker 2016 with 11 hours and 1 minute at Yuen Long.18NOV16 SCMP/Edmond So

People attend OXFAM Trailwalker 2016 in Sai Kung.18NOV16 SCMP/Dickson Lee

The team of Nepalese soldiers out to set new Hong Kong Trailwalker record

AWOO Team Nepal, who are competing in Oxfam Trailwalker 2016, at the Shing Mun reservoir. Photo: Antony Dickson

Team 2XU UFO (L-R) Lam Shing-yip; Tsang Chun-kit (behind LAM); Law Chor-kin; and Tang Sun-kam; pose for a picture at the finish of Oxfam Trailwalker at Po Leung Kuk Jockey Club Tai Tong Holiday Camp in Yuen Long. 20NOV15

The top three finishers at the Vibram¬Æ Hong Kong 100 were Nepal Tirtha Bahadur Tamang, who won the race in 10 hours 2 minutes and 4 seconds (centre), with fellow countryman Bed Bahadur Sunwar in second (right) and Vlad Ixel who finished third (left)

This handout image shows an athletes in action during the Ten Times Needle Hill in 2014. [13october2015 health race life]

AWOO Team Nepal - Oxfam Trailwalker 2016 team members (L-R) Purna Tamang, Tirtha Tamang, Bhim Bahadur Gurung and Bed Bahadur Sunuwar, together with Milos Pintrava, team manager (C) at the Shing Mun reservoir, Hong Kong on November 16, 2016. Pintrava's company Awoo is sponsoring the team. [FEATURES] SCMP / Antony Dickson

AWOO Team Nepal - Oxfam Trailwalker 2016 team members (L-R) Purna Tamang, Tirtha Tamang, Bhim Bahadur Gurung and Bed Bahadur Sunuwar, at the Shing Mun reservoir, Hong Kong on November 16, 2016. [FEATURES] SCMP / Antony Dickson

Nepal's Bed Bahadur Sunwar finished second at the 2014 Vibram Hong Kong 100

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