Kaohsiung was the host city of the World Games 2009, a multi-sport event primarily composed of sports not featured in the Olympic Games.
In the team competition, Australia are coming in as favourites with Barry Loveday (257.593kms), Ewan Horsburgh (249.716km) and John Pearson (241.430km) all have run more than 240km in the last year.
In the women´s race, Jodie Oborne leads a very strong Australian contingent. With a 230km personal best, she will be looking for high mileage during the 24 hour time period. Teammate Nikki Wynd will also be looking to make it to the podium having run 221.113km recently.
The host nation will be led by Yen-Ling Huang with a recent best of 200.792km. There will be two women´s team in the championships including Australia as Chinese Taipei also has Ya-Fen Wang and Mong-Chi Lin running in the competition.
The race route is around the main stadium of world games 2009. It is a 1.750 Kilometer loop and has been measured by Grade A IAAF/AIMS measurer. Seven countries send their national delegations to participate the championship race, there are Australia, New Zealand, Mongolia, Korea, Japan, Philippines and Chinese Taipei.
Total of 101 runners, including 84 open race runners from 8 countries will run 24H. Besides 24h race, there are 12H, 6H, 24H relay and 6H relay categories, the total number of participants is 450.
Frank Kuo, Race Director & Nadeem Khan, IAU Director of Communications
