The event was attended by Mr. Le Van Phuc, Secretary of the City Party Committee; Mr. Truong An Ninh, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Council; Mr. Tran Tien Dung, Vice Chairman of the Provincial People's Committee; representatives of agencies and provincial-level unions; leader of Vinh Linh district (Quang Tri province); leaders of Le Thuy district and thousands of local people and tourists.

The boat racing festival on Kien Giang River is one of the old cultural activities, associated with the cultural and spiritual life of the local residents and becomes a traditional cultural character of Le Thuy people.
The festival was recognised as a provincial-level culture and sport festival in 2003 by the Provincial People's Committee. The festival aims to effectively implement the Campaign "All people unite to build cultural life in residential areas"; expand and improve quality of local sport movement. This is also an opportunity to popularise the images on land and people of Le Thuy district - the motherland of General Vo Nguyen Giap to domestic and foreign friends.

This is the 53rd time the traditional boat racing festival on Kien Giang River has been held.

The festival drew the participation of 25 male teams and 8 female teams with 1,037 athletes from communes and town of Le Thuy district, including: Loc Thuy, Phong Thuy, Lien Thuy, An Thuy, Xuan Thuy, Mai Thuy, My Thuy, Phu Thuy and Kien Giang town.

The race was divided into two groups of A (13 teams) and B (12 teams) with a total length of about 24km for male boats and 18km for female boats.

From early in the morning, thousands of local people and tourists gathered along the two banks to enjoy and cheer loudly the race teams.

After more than two hours of competition with an exciting atmosphere and solidarity spirit, the traditional boat racing festival on Kien Giang River ended successfully.

 Awarding prizes to excellent teams

As a result, An Xa village (Loc Thuy commune) stood the whole group most, Loc An village (An Thuy commune) came second and third of that of Tuy Loc village (Loc Thuy commune).

Awarding prizes to female racing boats

Regarding the female racing boats, team of An Xa village (Loc Thuy commune) won the first prize, Tuy Loc village (Loc Thuy commune) won the second and Dai Phong village came the third.

Awarding prizes to male racing boats at the group A

Awarding prizes to male racing boats at the group B

Regarding the male racing boats, the first prizes were given to My Thuy commune and Thuong Phong village (Phong Thuy commune), second prizes to Phu Thuy commune and Phu Tho village (An Thuy commune) and third prizes to An Thuy commune and Xuan Hoi village (Lien Thuy commune) for the group A and B respectively.

Some photos at the boat racing festival on Kien Giang River:

By Nhu Y
(Source: Quang Binh Portal)