Official world rafting governing body
After a fantastic previous season, we have to continue at the same pace in this 2023. Every day we receive new applications for the organization of all kinds of competitions – Euro Cups, World Cups, Nationals.. This year, we will have competitions in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria… We expect many more
The amount of GTE workshops is making a significant come back post covid which is comforting news. I was shocked to receive a call asking to assist on a GTE workshop in Norway in early November. Instantly I said yes & then I found my self mentally visualizing where I had packed my cold weather
Do you want to become an international rafting guide? We invite you to the qualification course that opens career prospects in adventure tourism. You can work either with the rafting operators in the country, or almost anywhere, on five continents! The course will be in English and is supported by the main instructor of the
Wow! What a season is behind us… We still don’t stop, let’s understand each other. But when we stop for a second and look back… We have something to see! So, let’s remember together everything that we have managed to achieve so far in 2022.. During the year, we tried to bring each member of
by Chloe Tippett “THE FORMATION OF THE CALIFORNIA POPPIES” I GREW UP on the river. My parents met 30 years ago as guides and raised me and my brother as whitewater kids. Today, our family owns a rafting company, Coloma Lotus Whitewater. Growing up I had a vague awareness that raft racing was a thing.
The very first love for competitive rafting was shown back in 1989, when Russians and Americans joined forces and organized the first rafting competitions – up to 50 teams competed in Siberia (1989), USA (1990), Costa Rica (1991) and Turkey (1993). The only logical step after that was the establishment of an International Rafting Federation.
In order to save the planet, and leave a clean one behind, we need more river guardians. One person is not enough for one river, everyone needs to know that they are the owner of the title of “guardian”. The river from the source to the mouth has freedom and its own nature, where it
After a two-year break, everyone was looking forward to the Una regatta that lasted from 27 to 30 July.. This is the 48th Una Regatta, happens once a year and people in Bihać love this tradition, so they show up in a large number to meet and greet the Una Regata participants. We started in
Pieter Bekkers first joined the IRF Board of Directors in 2011 where he oversaw the Media & Marketing section of the IRF for a few years, then became Chair of Sport & Competition, and later he became Treasurer. In 2021 he was approved as an Honourary BOD Member. He was and still is very involved
International Rafting Federation
Official world governing body for rafting since 1997