The Fr. Joseph Weirtz Bayview Park in Southern Poblacion, Tudela, Camotes Island will be the official race course of the first Tudela Dragon Boat Race o May 20, 2021. | Photo from Tudela Dragon Boat Race 2021 Facebook page.
The dragon boat exhibition race will be held at the Fr. Joseph Weirtz Bayview Park in Barangay Southern Poblacion in Tudela. The team manager of PADS dragon boat team, JP Maunes, promised the people of Tudela that they would treat them with an international standard dragon boat race. There will be eight categories in the event. These are: premier open small boat, the premier mixed small boat, premier women small boat, masters open small boat, masters mixed small boat, youth mixed small boat, youth open small boat, and the inter-barangay open small boat .
“We are confident that this event will become successful and hopefully it will become an annual sports event in Tudela. As I said, we don’t have much tourist attractions here, but we have places that we can turn into sports tourism hubs,” said Solante.