The Brunei Darussalam Athletics Association (BAA) yesterday announced that Brunei will host the Borneo Track and Field Championship from March 13-15, 2015.
A total of nine athletics associations from Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia will compete in the three-day competition at the Tutong Sports Complex. The announcement took place at the BAA meeting at the Purple Jade conference room, Centrepoint hotel, where they discussed the championships' details with the delegates and representatives of athletics associations from Sabah, Sarawak, Labuan and Kalimantan.
Track events during the championship will be the 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 10,000m, decathlon, heptathlon, 100m hurdles, 110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, 3000m steeplechase, 4x100m relay, 4x400m relay and a 42.192km marathon. The field events would be the high jump, long jump, triple jump, pole vault, shot put, discus throw, javelin throw and hammer throw.
"The Borneo Track and Field Championship was a historic sporting event where Brunei, Sabah and Sarawak would compete against each other annually and it was last held in the 1980s," BAA president and chairperson of the meeting, Zulkifli Hj Jaafar, told The Brunei Times. "We're starting it up again because we want to help develop our current athletes' growth (and to help our) athletes train and prepare themselves for the 2019 Brunei SEA Games.
"For all parties involved, it will be a historic event as we're reviving what used to be a prestigious championship that was inspired by the aspirations of our past leaders and rulers," he said. "We haven't decided on the age groups yet but once it is decided, we will hold trials and tryouts for anybody interested to join and represent Brunei.
"The trials and tryouts will most probably be held during late August or early September."
