The unlikely yet potent combination of multiple Marathon World Champion Hank McGregor and 2015 Dusi Canoe Marathon Champion Andy Birkett took to the raging Umkomaas River and produced a dominant display from start to finish to claim victory at the 2015 STIHL Umkomaas Canoe Marathon handing McGregor his sixth title at the race.
Laura O’Donoghue broke her Dusi Canoe Marathon duck as she claimed an emphatic win in the elite women’s race where she dominated from start to finish and finished ahead of Under-18 Cana Peek and Jenna Ward.
24 year-old Andy Birkett further etched his name into the Dusi Canoe Marathon record books on Saturday when he edged out 2013 winner Lance Kime and ‘Dusi Darling’ Sbonelo Khwela in record time on route to clinching a fifth race title.
The 64th edition of the globally renowned three day, 120km long paddling and running adventure from Pietermaritzburg to Durban gets underway on Thursday amidst an atmosphere of remembrance, history and excitement.
As 2015 begins, with another Dusi Canoe Marathon on the horizon, four-time champion Andy Birkett is preparing to take his paddling game to a new level and is hard at work, trying to improve on a solid 2014.
Renata Csay has achieved the 15th World Champion title of her sports career in Oklahoma. As the most successful female marathon kayak paddler of the town Győr, she's an icon in the town and a real role model in the international field.
Multiple world champion Hank McGregor will be paddling into unchartered waters at the start of the 2015 Dusi Canoe Marathon from 19 to 21 February as he sets off on a "social" mixed doubles Dusi with his wife Pippa.
Ian Player, the founder of the iconic Dusi Canoe Marathon, passed away on the weekend, just days before the Commemorative Dusi Canvas Journey, a four-day trip from Alexander Park in Pietermaritzburg to Durban's Blue Lagoon, begins. The event, which starts on Thursday, features a select group of invited paddlers and takes place in craft similar to those used in the first Dusi Canoe Marathon in 1951.
Fresh off the success of Team South Africa at the International Canoeing Federation (ICF) Canoe Marathon World Championships in Oklahoma City in September, where the men's kayak team claimed the world number one ranking, Canoeing South Africa (CSA), together with the ICF, is making a push to popularise Canadian canoeing.
Two new names will be engraved on the Hansa Fish River Canoe marathon winner’s trophies as Hank McGregor and Abby Adie claimed memorable victories in the hotly contested men’s and women’s 2014 clashes respectively on Saturday while Nic Burden, Adam Nisbet and Jean-Luc Mauvis were crowned 2014 SA K3 River Marathon champions.