Official world rafting governing body
Nick Harding | Sportscene – In a gig-venue and shop named The Store near Okere Falls, Rotorua, New Zealand, SPORTSCENE Director Rob has a morning coffee with extreme paddling poster-boy Sam Sutton. A little bit on Sam before we get into his dual personalities. The Adidas Sickline extreme kayak triple World Champion (2010, 2011, 2012) was born a
“Club Rafting Femenino” Costa Rica is a group of women who love white water and nature. They promote the sport of rafting amongst women and the result is a team that is the best representation of competitive women rafting in Costa Rica. Most members of the team have been in the team since 2006; some
The Red Lady Raft Racers, made up from a team of professional river guides, was grown in the Arkansas Valley, USA. They are real ambassadors for their sport, a young team with big ambitions, and will spend their winter training on the Colorado River to compete in the National Selections in 2013. The stakes are
Recently we’ve had quite a few articles about women’s rafting teams and not so many about men’s teams! The reason for this is that we seldom get the responses we’re looking for from the men’s teams! So if you have a team and would like us to write an article about it then contact us.
A crew from Manitoba and Ontario that came together on the Ottawa River, in Foresters Falls Ontario, will represent Canada at the 20 13 World Rafting Champs in New Zealand in November. The “Magnificent Seven” are: Gwyn Ashcroft, Graham Ball, Jon Booren, Andy Hill, Bill Leslie, Lars Romeskie and Tim Wintoniw. Most of the members
Commercially rafting is a huge tourist attraction in New Zealand with around 100,000 people each year doing guided raft trips. Sports rafting, historically, has been limited to the Rotorua and Kawerau area and hence there are a few competitive teams based in that area. However, since New Zealand won the bid to hold the 2013
A star-studded Kiwi women’s rafting crew is training hard for the National Championships in the Bay of Plenty at Labour Weekend. Up for grabs is selection for the IRF World Rafting World Championships in Rotorua and Kawerau, in the heartland of New Zealand’s North Island from November 13 to 24, 2013. Nikki Kelly is one of
After several years of drought medals have once again begun to arrive in Slovenia. Rejuvenated with a new trainer and changed composition of team “GIMPEX Straža”, in less than a year Slovenia have returned to the World and European rafting podium. In Costa Rica (R6) they won third place in the Slalom, Downriver and Overall
They come from the land of the rising sun, but they light up their country with the gold medals they won in the R4 and R6 men’s World Rafting Championships. This professional rafting team are living their dream thanks to their sponsor “TEIKEI” which is a big security company. We know them as friendly, disciplined