Aug 202010
For the results and more on the race go to the official event website
Aug 162010
We are all set to host the R6 Pre Worlds in Costa Rica. October 6 – 10. For more details click the link – Pre Worlds 2010 – Costa Rica
The event is open to any team so come visit Costa Rica, the town of Turrialba and race on one of the greatest rivers.
Through the kind sponsorship of Mehler Texnologies and ARK Inflatables there are now 4-man rafts available to run a rafting event on the Palmiet River at this year’s up and coming
Gravity Adventure Festival. This is a great step forward for South African rafting as it is the start of the build up of creating a series of events to be run throughout South Africa (we are hoping to run one on the Ash River as well in summer).
These events will be the training and testing ground for the future teams that wish to attend the International Rafting Federations events. The next World Rafting Champs is in Costa Rica in October 2011 – South Africa needs to select its top men’s and top women’s teams to attend this event. We thank of Mehler Texnologies, ARK Inflatables and Gravity Adventure Festival for getting this off the ground and look forward to the growing future of South African rafting.
Aug 072010
The organizers for the European Cup – Trnavka R6 on September 4th – 5th have put an invitation on youtube. Click the link of watch it below.
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Jul 292010
The River Vrbas, Bosnia and Herzegovina
4th – 5th September
The Rafting club “KANJON” invites all Rafting Teams for The Rafting EuroCup 2010 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Races will be held on The River Vrbas – city Banja
Luka.
SCHEDULE:
September 3th (Friday)
Registration (Rafting centre Karanovac)
15:00 – 19:00 Official training
19:00 Captains meeting (Rafting centre Karanovac)
20:00 Official training (night slalom course – Kanyon Tijesno)
September 4th (Saturday): Discipline: R6 Sprint, R6 H2H, R6 Slalom
River: Vrbas
City: Banja Luka
08:00 Captains meeting (Camp Krupa na Vrbasu)
10:00 Start of R6 Sprint (Bijeli Buk)
11:00 Start of R6 H2H (Bijeli Buk)
19:00 Start of R6 Slalom (Kanyon Tijesno)
22:00 PARTY (Rafting centre Karanovac)
September 5th (Sunday): Discipline: Downriver R6
River: Vrbas
City: Banja Luka
10:00 Start of R6 Downriver
13:00 Prize giving for R6 Slalom, R6 Sprint, R6 H2H, R6 Downriver & Overall (Rafting centre Karanovac)
The 2010 World Rafting Championships is over. Keep checking the site as we will be posting the time and networks that will be airing the 52 minute TV production. If you are interested in having the show aired on your local network please contact us immediately to see if we can arrange it.
Jul 192010
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Jul 172010
July 17 – Downriver
The Teva World Champs couldn’t have asked for a better finish. The downriver race, its multiple laps (5 for women and 6 for men) proved to be grueling and took its toll on the athletes. Each lap you could see them getting more tired. But in the end every one of the teams took on the challenge of the downriver and gave it their all. The downriver was watched closely by many shouting spectators throughout the course. The ability to watch the teams do multiple laps was a great crowd pleaser.
The women’s race had the Slovakian team out front but on the whitewater course they had a swimmer who swam into the flat water below which took them into last position in their heat of 7. They struggled and fought hard to get back but ended up taking 7th place overall. Japan however kept increasing their lead once they took control. They won the downriver with a time of 29.28:62. The Canadian women had a great run as they started in the slower ranked heat and took 4th place in the Downriver.
In the final heat of the men the start was huge and Brazil took the lead and kept it the whole way. However in the beginning the Czechs, USA and Japan battled each other for a while but they sorted it out with Japan coming in 2nd and the USA 3rd. The upset was New Zealand, in the previous heat they had a fast race and took 3rd overall.
With the downriver out of the way teams are celebrating and waiting for the prize giving of the downriver and overall results. For complete details of the results go to the results section at the official WRC website.
We will post the overall results later tonight.
