Source:  News Release/Marie Perrier de la Bathie

Canada at the 2013 Asian Tent Pegging Championships

UNICEF Team Canada is pleased to announce that Canada will compete at the Asian Tent Pegging Championships, from 19-23 March 2013 in Delhi, India.

A 2500 year-old cavalry sport, Tent Pegging was created to develop and to test the skills of mounted warriors, and is an FEI Regional Discipline.  It is most often referred to in Canada as "Equestrian Skill-at-Arms".

UNICEF Team Canada at the Internationals in the Sultanate of Oman
Photo Credit - Royal Omani Cavalry

In addition to teams from Asia, the 2013 Asian Championships will include a team from each of the continental regions: Australia for Oceania; Egypt for North Africa; Great Britain for Europe; Jordan for the Middle East; South Africa for Sub-Saharan Africa; and Canada for the New World.

Canada’s athlete will be Akaash Maharaj (Almonte, ON), who earned our country’s first gold medals at the sport’s International Championships.

Akaash will once again ride as a member of UNICEF Team Canada, in support of the United Nations Children’s Fund.  After the closing ceremonies, he will meet with legislators from across South Asia to discuss implementation of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption, and extending the remit of international law to bring trans-border criminals to justice.

"We are profoundly conscious that there is no greater privilege for an athlete than to represent our country in international competition," said Colonel the Honourable Henry NR Jackman, OC, OOnt, who serves as Akaash’s Equerry.  "We are proud that we will face the best combat riders the world can assemble, and prouder still that we will do so while carrying the maple leaf."

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