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Introducing some of the Youth teams …

Netherlands – Forward Motion, R4 Youth – Men Team Forward Motion is a group of enthusiastic students with a love for outdoor activities and whitewater. In March 2012 it was decided to establish a rafting team. The reason they formed this team is to participate the National Championships rafting. The enthusiasm grew because of some workouts

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First ever Masters World Champs!!

This year the IRF is holding its first ever Masters World Champs (23 – 28 Aug) in the Czech Rep on the Ceske Budejovice artificial course. This is a great opportunity for the paddlers who still love the competitions but have been knocked out by the young and up-and-coming rafting teams! Its also a chance to

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WRC 1998 – 2011: Medal Distribution

Here is the medal distribution over the history of the IRF World Rafting Champs: Men: Country Gold Silver Bronze Total Czech Republic 11 8 5 24 Germany 3 10 6 19 Russia 7 5 6 18 Japan 4 7 4 15 Brazil 7 4 3 14 Slovenia 6 2 4 12 Slovakia 2 3 4

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Slalom WRC

The most testing slalom ever seen in the IRF 2011 World Rafting Championships, with 14 extremely testing gates. Many say gate 3 is impossible… So we will see! Gates 8+9 are both upstream gates on opposite sides of the river to each other, and extremely difficult to do both, many teams choose one or the

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Netherlands’ women’s team wins the Sprint!

The Netherland women’s team has won the first discipline of the 2011 World Rafting Championship, the Sprint. The course, set over a distance of about 450 metres, put all the teams to the test as the sprinted across this distance and through the rapids. They were followed by Great Britain, New Zealand, USA and Czech

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