Official world rafting governing body
Dorothea Oberhofer, Melanie Kobald, Katharina Dietl and Valentina Steck are all part of the well-known DRD4 club in Italy. Three years ago I wrote about the DRD4’s U23 men’s team, so it’s a special pleasure and honour for me to write about the women’s team now. The DRD4 Ladies will represent Italy in the Open Women’s category
The team of six regular guys who loved extreme sports and leisure was formed in June 2014. None of us realised it was the start of something that would go on so long and that it would become the passion of our lives! After the first raft trip on the rivers in the mountains of
Rafting season 2016 has already started with some national competitions. We have already witnessed flips and paddlers falling out of rafts, which is an integral part of this sport, but more nationals, EC, ERC and WRC are still ahead of us with some new rivers and some new challenges. So, the question is – how
And here we are again, two years after the last R4 Euro Rafting Champs which was in Cunovo, Slovakia. Teams are gearing up once again to compete for the title of the best teams in Europe. They’ll be facing each other in Straža, Slovenia from the 16 to 25 May 2016 where they will paddle Sprint, H2H
Laura Delgado, Gabriela Rodríguez, Melida Barbee, Johana Arguello, Marianela Castro and Carol Vargas (captain) with Coach: Alexander Segura, represent Costa Rica this year at the WRC R6 in the Women’s Open category. They will, with the other 15 teams, fight for a title in the Sprint, H2H, Slalom, Downriver and Overall placement. The best female
The colours of Russia, in the U19 division, will be defended by: Vladimir Kozich – team captain, Dmitry Zubov, Eugene Morotsky, Kirill Belkin, Pavel Melnikov, Alexander Melnikov and Alexey Ershov, guided by coach – Alexei Shirokov. The “Tomsk Odyssey” team has achieved excellent results in the European and World Championships in recent years: World Championship
The IRF has the great honour to present to you Milan Lovrenčič. Milan’s first World Rafting Championship was the Camel White Water Challenge in 1997 on the Zambezi, where he was the reserve team member for the Bober (Beaver) team, Slovenia, who have been 6 times World Rafting Champions, a record that will probably never be
21 teams this year will take part in Open Men’s division at the WRC R6 Indonesia, and we are glad that among them is again the Danish Men’s National team. [vimeo 109925498 w=500&h=280] Three years have gone by since our interview with them about the Copenhagen artificial course and their participation in the ERC in Czech Rep in
After WRC R6 Costa Rica and New Zealand, the French Open Men’s next WRC participation will be at the R6 WRC in Indonesia. It will be great to hang out with them again at the WRC competition, and certainly interesting, because among their team members is one lady. Kevin Mouillade introduces us to his FRA
International Rafting Federation
Official world governing body for rafting since 1997