Raimund Wellenhofer, race director of the Thailand Temple Run has today announced the postponement of the event initially set to take place on 18 March 2007.

ING Life, the event’s title sponsor for two years decided to discontinue its sponsorship and organizers have been unable to find sufficient sponsorship to meet their budget needs.

“We are very disappointed about this. We had set ourselves a deadline of 31st October to find sufficient sponsorship and we were unable to secure a sponsor. We have built this race with a lot of passion and idealism and today is certainly a sad day for us.” said Wellenhofer.

“If we can succeed in finding sponsorship in the future we will certainly bring this unique race back on the calendar. For the moment I would like to thank everyone who has supported the event in the last five years” Wellenhofer added.

Wellenhofer stated that he and his Go Adventure Asia team will now put their focus on the Phuket International Marathon which was successfully inaugurated in 2006 and will take place again on 17 June 2007.

The Thailand Temple Run was founded in 2002 and was envisioned as a destination race that showcases an unseen, picturesque part of Thailand. The race soon established a name for itself in the local and international running scene for its beautiful setting of Buddhist temples, rice paddies, coconut farms and rural Thai life.

In its most recent edition in 2006 the event attracted more than 3,000 participants including more than 700 international participants from 45 countries.