TACLOBAN CITY – A Tanauaneño once again dominated the Palm Beach 2nd International Skimboarding Competition in Hong Kong held just this first week of October, according to Leyte Board Member Roque Tiu.
Roderick Espada, the cousin of Leo Espada who was last year’s champion in the Palm Beach 1st International Skimboarding Competition, was this year’s champion in the same competition besting other skims boarders from Hong Kong, Australia, Belgium, Germany and United Kingdom.
The competition was held at Palm Beach Cheung Sha, Lantau Island in Hongkong, according to Tiu.
Espada is the only competitor from Leyte and was supported financially by the provincial government through Governor Jericho “Icot” Petilla.
As the champion of the competition, Tiu said that Espada received $1,000 (around P40, 000) and several items from sponsors.
With this award of Espada, Tiu said that it only proves that skim boarders from the province are among the best in the world.
“This only strengthen and prove that Tanauan is really the skim boarding capital of country,” said Tiu who help institutionalized the skim boarding competition in his town when he was still the municipal mayor of Tanauan.
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