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Korea Herald
25-05-2025
- Korea Herald
Oxfam Trailwalker challenge underway in Inje
Participants set out Saturday for the global charity event Oxfam Trailwalker, organized by the international relief and development organization Oxfam Korea in partnership with Inje County, Gangwon Province. Oxfam Trailwalker is a challenge-based fundraising event where teams of four must complete a designated distance within 38 hours. This year, a total of 210 teams are taking part in the event's signature 100-kilometer course, as well as the 50-kilometer and 25-kilometer courses. Participants began the challenge at 6 a.m. on Saturday, departing from the Jindong branch of Girin Elementary School in Inje. The route takes them through some of Inje's most scenic walking paths and key landmarks, including Gombaeryeong and Hangyeryeong.
South China Morning Post
29-04-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong's Oxfam Trailwalker set to welcome back elite overseas entrants
Details of Hong Kong's Oxfam Trailwalker were announced on Tuesday, with organisers indicating they hoped to welcome elite multinational teams for the first time in several editions. Advertisement Teams of four runners can sign up for the 100km (62-mile) trail race from Wednesday next week, with the 1,300 slots expected to be oversubscribed when registration closes on May 27. If so, a draw for places will take place on June 5. There were 2,600 entries last year and the organisers expected a similar response this time. In the field will be local elite walker Tsang Chun-kit, who was invited to form a team and has recruited three overseas teammates, each holding an International Trail Running Association world ranking. 'He was asking if they needed to break our record,' said Michael Wong Ho-ming, the charity's director of fundraising and communications in the city. Participants gather at the start of last year's Oxfam Trailwalker. Photo: Dickson Lee 'It's good to have a new record, but I said no pressure. We hope to have five to 10 elite overseas teams this year, and their participation should attract worldwide attention.' Advertisement
South China Morning Post
04-02-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Blind runner who once ‘had no purpose' targets sub-3-hour Hong Kong Marathon
After losing 95 per cent of his sight in just over one week at the age of 21, Lee Chun-fai locked himself away from the world for two years. Depressed, isolated and with 'no concept of time', Lee had 'no purpose at all'. 'I would eat when I wanted and spend the day listening to the radio and TV,' Lee said. Today, 18 years after aggressive optic nerve atrophy left Lee with 10 per cent vision in his left eye and completely blind in his right, and 12 years after he began running, the 39-year-old has ticked off the Hong Kong 100 Ultra, the Oxfam Trailwalker and a 5,364-metre climb to Everest Base Camp. On Sunday, aided by guide runner Lukas Wambua Muteti, he will aim to complete the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon in under three hours, after becoming the first visually impaired Hongkonger to break that barrier at Japan's Nagano Marathon in 2023. His best time in four previous Hong Kong editions is three hours, eight minutes. Lukas Wambua Muteti (left) and Lee Chun-fai have formed a bond during training. Photo: Elson Li 'It would mean more [doing it] at home, and the sense of achievement would be greater, because the course is more challenging,' Lee said.
