Official world rafting governing body
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
A new Board of Directors was elected at the recent IRF Congress. Congratulations go to: Rafael Gallo (President); Peter Micheler (1st Vice President), Robert Kazik (2nd VP), Sue Liell-Cock (Secretary), Alex Pastir (Treasurer/ Development Officer), Oleg Grigoriev (Head of S&C Com), Joe Willie Jones (Vice Head of S&C Com), Gaspar Goncz (Head GT&E), Deb Cook
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
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
2012 European Rafting Championships; River Vltava; Lipno nad Vltavou, Czech Republic The Czech Boaters Union (SVoCR) cordially invites all IRF member federations to send their selected teams to the 2012 European Rafting Championships on river Vltava in Lipno nad Vltavou. You all know the location – it hosted the 2003 WRC. So, start training and come. Dates:
2012 Youth & Masters World Rafting ChampionshipsRiver VltavaCeske Budejovice, Czech Republic The Czech Boaters Union (SVoCR) cordially invites all IRF member federations to send their selected Youth and Masters teams to the 2012 Youth & Masters World Rafting Championship in the Czech Republic. The Youth event will be only be the second of its kind,
Congratulations to the winners of the Euro Cup R6 2011 series – Men = Hazard Team (Slovakia) and Women = Adventure Net Team (Bulgaria). They were followed by Delta Sport-Split (Croatia) and Bestie Stream(Czech) in the men’s and RK Kanyon (BiH) and Kanyon Raft Ladies (Hungary) in the women’s sections. A total of 87 men’s
The IRF has linked up with the ATTA for a long-term education and training initiative as part of the ATTA’s mission to professionalize the adventure tourism community. The ATTA and a selection of best-of-class adventure education and training institutions are joining together to launch the first phase of AdventureEDU,Training for a Sustainable Business, Earth and Adventure.