Official world rafting governing body
Being crowned World Champions at the R4 WRC in Al Ain last year certainly adds pressure to the head game. These women have come through adversity this year (broken collar bone to name but one of the injuries) and found themselves fighting fit and ready to give it their all in Japan. This medal winning
Training hard for this year’s WRC 2017 GB Open Men have focused their time and efforts on solidifying their strong Sprint and Head-to-Head previous competitive edge and pushing for cleaner and faster slalom runs. Here we meet the team as they head out to Japan with an aim of getting to the podium again. Meet
“The Indonesian Masters Women Team consists of Veronica Moeliono (54), Amy Kadarhutami (53), Diah Bisono (52), Amalia Yunita (50), Mieranda Wimar (50), Tense Manalu (43), Sarah Sagita Harmoun (41) and Inge Sianturi (43) as team manager. The team was trained by Andi Suherli, the national paddler who once raced for Indonesia in the 2007 World
The IRF is pleased to announce that Slovakia will be the hosts for the 2018 IRF Euro Rafting Champs. Slovakia won the bid to host the event in a very close competition with Turkey. It was eventually Slovakia’s ideal R4 course, Cunovo near Bratislava, that pushed the win in their direction, as well as the
We wrote about these beautiful women for the first time in 2013, they have since changed their composition, overcome many challenges, changed the category in which they compete… but they have not and will not give up and we will soon see them in Japan as they compete in the Open category. So, let’s meet
71 teams ready themselves for the white water of the Yoshino River outside Miyoshi City. Teams from all around the world are preparing themselves, for the R6 (six-man rafts) World Rafting Championships which are being held on the Yoshino River, near the city of Miyoshi, in the Shikoku region of Japan. Teams register on the
The IRF will be holding its Congress during the 2017 World Rafting Champs in Japan. All federations have been notified of this already, and sent the Agenda. Below are the details and links: Dates: evening of 4th and 5th October 2017 Location: Former Nishiu Elementary School Gym, which is the captain’s meeting room at the WRC Headquarters near
We first talked to this team back in 2012 about WRC in Czech, then before going to Brazil for WRC R4 in 2014, and after that before WRC 2016 in Al Ain. This time we asked them about their preparation for IRF WRC 2017 in Japan: “Jenita Göbel, we’re interested in how you got into this team?
We are always pleased to present the national teams before the start of the World Championship, at this time we’re presenting to you the Costa Rican Open Women’s team. “We are Machacas, the team created by Asociación Machacas (Women Rafting Association), proud to represent Costa Rica as the Open Women Rafting Team in Japan 2017.
International Rafting Federation
Official world governing body for rafting since 1997