Official world rafting governing body
Another fantastic morning of racing from the R6 teams. Summer time seems to have left Lipno with another wet cold day and the course looking rather magical with steam rising from the water. The Slalom looked like a good technical course definitely requiring teams working in controlled unison to navigate a clean fast run through the gates.
Day 3 of the European Championships saw just as much excitement as the previous day with the R6 sprint and H2H taking place. Unfortunately the weather did not seem to want to play game after a thunderstorm yesterday evening the day started with grey skies and steady rain most of the day. But this did
What an exciting day of racing and you did not even have to be at the river to get the best spectator seats in the house thanks the hard work of the Czech organising team and fantastic live streaming from Strizna.cz, you get to see the best view of the all the races. If you
By Sportscene (Please see update made on 5 February 2013!) Indonesia has won the right to host the 2014 R4 World Rafting Championships after the International Rafting Federation (IRF) voted for the Asian nation to host the event for the first time. The event will run from 27 November to 5 December, with a Pre-Worlds
by Sportscene The 2012 Youth & Masters World Championships have come to a conclusion and Sportscene spoke to International Rafting Federation Vice President Peter Micheler post event. This year’s Championships produced some exciting racing across all four disciplines with the sprint, head to head and slalom disciplines being contested down recently re-developed Ceske Budejovice Whitewater
By Sportscene Rafting was the real winner after the 2012 Youth and Masters World Championships came to a conclusion, following the last of four disciplines, the ‘Downriver’ being raced along the Vltava River today. The course started in Vyssi Brod, with the four man raft teams paddling their way across the remotely flat waters for
By Sportscene Fans packed the banks of the course for the second day of the 2012 Youth & Masters World Championships in Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic. Slalom was today’s event, the third of four disciplines to be raced to determine who the world’s best Youth and Masters champions will be in this discipline. The course proved
Day 3 of the championships again saw the home teams medaling in each category, but the Russia youth ladies team stole away the pole position from the Czech in a great performance on their second run leaving the Czech youth Ladies to take silver position. With the up to date ranking results now in it
A quiet sense of expectation dawned on the athletes as they rose from their hollows in anticipation for the start of the 2012 Youth & Masters World Championships. That nervousness soon switched to excitement as the sun pierced the skies, fans lined the riverbanks, while the Hungarian men yelled out the team war cry and
International Rafting Federation
Official world governing body for rafting since 1997