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Newsletter - late October 2014
Brazil dominates the World Rafting Championship
Posted: 20 Oct 2014 03:03 AM

The Brazil teams have scooped up the Open Men’s, Open Women’s and Masters Men’s title at the World Rafting Champs in Foz do Iguaçu. Brazil.

Photos: Nilton Rolin / Itaipu and Rickardo Andrade

The 2014 R4 Championships have ended after gathering the best in the world, from 19 countries, for two weeks of competition. . . . → continue reading . . . Brazil dominates the World Rafting Championship
    

Pulley systems
Posted: 18 Oct 2014 02:54 AM

It’s not often you need to know how to set up a rope pulley system – but when you do it is normally an emergency and you need to know how to do it fast!

Vidra Kele brings us these great illustrations as to how to set up various pulleys with increasing . . . → continue reading . . . Pulley systems
    

Brazilians dominate the H2H today
Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:13 PM

With the temperature around a hot and sweaty 40 degrees, the teams competed on the Itaipu Channel, Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, in the H2H discipline of the R4 Rafting World Championship 2014 Open and Masters. Brazil took a clean sweep of old the gold medals on offer – Open Men, Open Women and Masters Men.

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Japan, Slovakia and Czech Republic come out on top in the World Rafting Champs
Posted: 17 Oct 2014 02:12 AM

Today in Foz do Iguaçu, the Open and Masters competition started at the R4 Rafting World Championship 2014 with the Sprint.

With over 30 degrees of temperature, rafters from 14 countries competed in the Sprint on this Thursday afternoon, the Sprint on the Itaipu Channel.

In the Open Men, Japan, the defending world champions, showed . . . → continue reading . . . Japan, Slovakia and Czech Republic come out on top in the World Rafting Champs
    

Open and Masters World Rafting Champs begin in Brazil
Posted: 15 Oct 2014 07:24 AM

The IRF 2014 R4 World Rafting Championships has moved into its second phase now which is the Open and Masters divisions.

Photo: Guto Merkle

The past two days the teams had a chance to paddle on the Itaipu Canal where they familiarized themselves with the Sprint, H2H and Slalom track. The second day . . . → continue reading . . . Open and Masters World Rafting Champs begin in Brazil
    

Follow the WRC 2014 action!!!
Posted: 15 Oct 2014 05:20 AM

There are a number of places and ways you can follow what is happening at the World Rafting Champs 2014 in Foz do Iguaçu, Brasil:

NB!!! If you are posting to your Facebook page or Twitter – use #irfwrc – that way we can all enjoy each others’ posts.

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Junior World Champions are declared!
Posted: 12 Oct 2014 11:11 AM

Today in Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, the R4 World Rafting Championship in the Under 19 and Under 23 categories concluded with Brazilian teams dominating by taking the title in three of the four categories: Under-19 and Under-23 Men’s and Under 23 Women’s. 

It was a very early start for the athletes today as they . . . → continue reading . . . Junior World Champions are declared!
    

Slalom Day for U19 and U23 at the WRC
Posted: 11 Oct 2014 11:35 AM

Today on the Itaipu Channel, Foz do Iguaçu, the Brazilians took the title of Slalom Champions in the men’s categories of Under-19 and Under-23 and the women’s Under-19.

Tomorrow (12th) happens in the Iguaçu National Park and it is the last and decisive discipline (Downriver) which will define the new world champions in the . . . → continue reading . . . Slalom Day for U19 and U23 at the WRC
    

Extracting boats after wraps and pins
Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:24 PM

R3 – Rescue for Riverrunners talks us through how to extract rafts or kayaks from a wrap or pin using mechanical advantages. Even the toughest of wraps can be solved when using the right equipment and methods.

NRS sells a waterproof Z-Drag Rescue Crib Sheet which is . . . → continue reading . . . Extracting boats after wraps and pins
    

Brazil leads the first day of the R4 Rafting World Championship
Posted: 10 Oct 2014 01:14 PM

Brazilian athletes feature strongly in the Sprint and Head to Head, both held today on Itaipu Channel, Foz do Iguaçu (PR)

On this first day of competition in the R4 Rafting World Championship 2014 in Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, there are 13 countries in . . . → continue reading . . . Brazil leads the first day of the R4 Rafting World Championship
    

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