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World Rafting Day

At our last Congress, the IRF decided to set aside 12 July to be World Rafting Day. And here are some of the ways that this day was celebrated in Serbia, Iran, New Zealand and the USA. Drina Regatta – Serbia This regatta gathers together a large number of fans of the river and of

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China – Race 2, what an experience!

Chengdu is the city we arrived in after a crazy, night train ride. We had four days of rest here before the second race. This beautiful city of 15 million people, with many historical, religious and natural curiosities is a city to be on the list for sight seeing just as much as Paris and

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New Euro Rafting Champions!!!

What a beautiful competition. 71 teams, 18 European countries, Čunovo – Divoka water, Slovakia, the sun as much as we wanted, well organized competition – what more could we ask for! Day Four of the competition (see Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3) started with Slalom for the U19, U23 and Masters divisions, and then

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Day Three Euro Rafting Champs

Another beautiful, sunny day in Čunovo is behind us. The third day was reserved for Slalom for Open Men and Women and Downriver for the U19, U23 and Masters’ divisions. The first slalom race brought us two flips and one surf in a hole just before the end of the track. There was some swimming

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Day Two Euro Rafting Champs

The second day of competition was the Open Sprint and H2H. As I expected it was spectacular in both disciplines. First it was the Sprint where the CZE1 team defended their title from last time, NED1 achieved a fantastic result and climbed onto the podium at 2nd place, while the experienced Italian ITA1 took third

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Day One of Euro Rafting Champs

The first day of competition went very smoothly and professionally. I cannot wait for Slalom and Downriver! We were fortunate to have more sunny days and by the end of this competition it will look like we have all been on vacation! Fifteen nations are represented at this competition. U19 Men – 11 teams, Women –

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Training day two of R4 Euro Champs

Another sunny day on “Divoka water” Čunovo, Slovakia The second day of training was for Slalom. It went as smoothly as the first day, but the Slalom is more challenging   so the water was exciting and busy. The track is technically quite demanding and so it took teams a lot of time on the

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GB R4 Masters White Water Rafting Squad

These guys had their first major challenge in New Zealand as the R6 team at the 2013 WRC  and now are preparing for the R4 challenges of Slovakia at the Euro Champs. There is over 80 years of collective white water rafting, kayaking and canoeing experience in this team. The squad consists of six males,

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International Rafting Competition, China – 2014

Going to China, for most of us, is an achievement in itself. To go and race rafts there is just a dream and we never expected it would happen to us! The teams that had this privilege came from Serbia, Canada, Hungary, New Zealand and USA Over the past few years I have heard stories about

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