World Rafting Champs 2017 – Japan

⇒   Key Information and results

⇒   Team/participants information

⇒   Judging

⇒   Media including press releases

⇒   Congress

⇒   GT&E

⇒   Pre-event 2016


KEY INFORMATION:


TEAM / PARTICIPANTS INFORMATION:

Information Letters:

Fees:

  • Event Fees: please refer to the above information letters and / or the official website for registration and other fees to be paid to the event organisers as well as how to make these  payments.
  • IRF Fees: all members must be up to date with their fees due to the IRF. Please contact IRF Admin as to how to pay these fees.

Teams registered (71), countries (22):

Open Men (17):

  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Brazil
  • Canada
  • Costa Rica
  • Czech
  • Germany
  • Great Britain
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Mongolia
  • Nepal
  • Netherlands
  • Russia
  • Slovenia
  • UAE
  • USA

Open Women (12):

  • Canada
  • Costa Rica
  • Czech
  • Great Britain
  • Indonesia
  • Italy
  • Japan
  • Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway
  • Russia
  • USA

Masters Men (10):

  • Argentina
  • Brazil
  • Costa Rica
  • Czech
  • Great Britain
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • New Zealand
  • Russia
  • USA

Masters Women (4):

  • Czech
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • New Zealand

U23 Men (10):

  • Argentina
  • Czech
  • Great Britain
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • New Zealand
  • Russia
  • Slovakia
  • Turkey
  • USA

U23 Women (6):

  • Czech
  • Great Britain
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Russia
  • USA

U19 Men (7):

  • Argentina
  • Costa Rica
  • Great Britain
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • Russia
  • Turkey

U19 Women (5):

  • Great Britain
  • Indonesia
  • Japan
  • New Zealand
  • Russia

JUDGING:

  • New Judges workshop – a Workshop and exam for new Judges will be run during this event.
  • Jury
    • Head Judge: Eric Boudreau
    • Jury Members: Dirk Ladiges, Goran Lolic
  • Judge Liaison: Daigo Shibata
  • Official Judges:
    • Jozef Kytka
    • Pieter Bekkers
    • Aleks Cvijic
    • Bert Kanora
    • Kianoosh Mehrabi
    • Graham Maefredi
    • Tsvetan Petrov
    • Stan Hajek
    • Jean-Philippe Turcotte
    • Emilia Begunova
    • Malcolm Ferris-Lay
    • Janko Tavcar
  • Volunteer Judges:
    • Uros Lovrencic
    • Bibiana Kytkova
    • Johana Arguello
    • Mihai Mares
    • Mihail Saev
    • David Kulhan
    • Any Judges who do the Judges course

MEDIA:

Press releases:

Media Kit: Information for media


CONGRESS: There will be an IRF Congress during the WRC. The first meeting will be the evening of the 4th Oct and the second will be the 5th Oct.


GUIDE TRAINING & EDUCATION: We hope to run a Workshop before or after the event.


PRE- EVENT:

  • Dates: 7 – 10 Oct 2016
  • Location:  Yoshino River (Koboke section), Miyoshi city, Tokushima Prefecture,
  • Race registration period: from May 1st, to July 31, 2016
  • Entry fee: 20,000 yen. It`s about US$200 (accommodation and transport during the event included). Transfer from the airport upon request (this is not included in the entry fee).
  • Contact: kankou@city.tokushima-miyoshi.lg.jp
  • Official Organisers’ websiteWRC-2017Japan.com
  • Official Organisers’ Facebook page: World-Rafting-Championship-2017-Yoshinogawa