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Most countries send only their chosen Santa to the competition in Gällivare, a mining town of some 8,500 inhabitants located about 60 miles north of the Arctic Circle. This year, the Hong Kong delegation included its three previous Santa competition entrants and a photographer who doubled as an English-language interpreter for the Cantonese speakers.

Mr. Ho said he was initially intimidated by the competitors, including Santas from the Netherlands, Estonia and Sweden, who looked as if "they lived in a forest and had their own deer." The solution was simply to "work harder," he said.

Hong Kong's delegation embraced the Swedish crowd, making balloon animals for the children, despite temperatures as low as 12 degrees Fahrenheit. At one point the Hong Kong team got separated from the rest of the international Santa delegation because they were socializing in Gällivare's town square.

"For me that's a good thing, but for the schedule it's not," said the contest organizer Mr. Svalenström, manager of the Gällivare Tourism Office.

Paradise Yamamoto, Japan's Santa and the only other contestant from Asia, said the Hong Kong Santas' style stood out as very "fancy, pop, flashy."

"All the rest are pretty normal Santas…if you can say that," Mr. Svalenström said.

Hong Kong's choice of a young, thin Santa, "shows they were thinking about winning," said Santa Paradise, who celebrated his 50th birthday at the Arctic event. A rotund, older Santa wouldn't fare well in events that require you to run on ice or handle reindeer, he said. "You feel like you're risking your life sometimes."

On game day, Santa Rainbow got off to a rough start in the reindeer riding contest. The mechanical beast bucked him off in a few seconds.

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