France 2021

After a challenging and intense week of races, the award ceremony on the last day crowned the World Rafting Champions of the Women, Mix and Para Rafting categories. Italy 2, Women overall Champions With 292 points, scored with two golds in RX and Slalom and a silver in the Downriver, Italy 2 is the overall Champion of the Women category: Christa...

On 3rd July the last stage of the RX for Women, Mix and ParaRafting closed the race week and awarded the podiums with important points, that decided the overall results. In the Women category the four teams who made it to the semifinals, after the Phase 2 and Phase 3 of the knock out, were Turkey 2, Slovakia, Italy 1 and Italy 2 . Women, Italy 1,...

After the RX qualifications from yesterday the men category will finish the World Rafting Championship 2021 tonight. The knock out phase started this afternoon, without the 7 teams who got the best 7 times who will access directly to the phase 2 tonight at 21: Italy 1, Italy 2, Croatia 1, Chile 1, Russia, Turkey 1 and Argentina . Phase 1 saw 18...

Slalom day in L'Argentière-La Bessée on 1st July: 4 categories paddled 2 runs that awarded the podiums with 100, 90 and 80 points for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd best time (first or second manche). Women, Men, Para Rafting and Mix teams faced 10 challenging gates in the Stade d’eau vive Michel Baudry : 6 green gates (downstream) and 4 red gates...

A fresh afternoon on 30th June, in the Stade d’eau vive Michel Baudry, saw more than 50 teams paddling in the 400m whitewater venue for the RX qualification . Based on the these times, the athletes will compete on Friday and Saturday in the knock out phase, that will crown the RX Champions with 120 points. Italy 1, Women team In the women...

First day of race in France : the 3 kms Downriver opens the competing part of the week, with the start in the Durance gorge with 20 cubic meters per second. The water flow doubles with the Gyronde tributary in L’Argentière-la-Bessée, reaching 43 cubics per second in the Stade d’eau vive Michel Baudry . The first team who started paddling and...

At the last WRF World Rafting Championship in Tunceli (Turkey) Brazil got the over all gold, placing first in the downriver and the slalom. We talked with one of its member about his river experience and the current worldwide situation. Thiago, when was your first rafting experience? What other sports do you practice? I practice slalom kayaking,...

FFCK is one of the biggest canoe federations worldwide and in 2017 officially welcomed the rafting sport under its umbrella, becoming a WRF member. Rafting in France is a historical discipline from the recreational and commercial point of view, but the first National Championship was held in 2019. Since then the agonistic field is exponentially...

The Indian Rafting Foundation, founded by India’s rafting trailblazer Shaukat Sikand , held the 14th National Rafting Championship on the river Sutlej in Himachal Pradesh from 23 to 27th March 2021. The event, attended by Mr Divesh Kumar (IAS), Secretary Tourism from Himachal Pradesh, also selected two teams who will carry the Indian flag in...

The Media Sport Group and the World Rafting Federation together to promote rafting worldwide. A new important agreement for the World Rafting Federation that will expand the program of the channel 814 of Sky MS Channel with new content dedicated to rafting. Rafting, a fascinating and spectacular sport with its evocative scenarios, has always...

WRF is glad to announce that the Organising Committee has released details of the 2021 WRF World Rafting Championships, hosted in L’Argentière-Pays des Ecrins, France, from June 28 to July 3 . The first official bulletin is now online, and can be read here .

Cetina river , that flows from the Dinara mountain range to the Adriatic Sea, hosted the National Rafting Championship of Croatia on 14th-15th November. A long awaited return to the river, in compliance with the local provisions concerning the current pandemic situation, crowned the athletes who will compete under the Hrvatska flag at the WRF...

During the closing ceremony on 13th June in Tunceli, Turkey, the French Rafting will be present not only with teams, but also with the FFCK delegation, to receive the WRF flag: indeed, the Executive Board of the World Rafting agreed that France will host the 2021 Senior World Championships in June in L'Argentière-la-Bessée, where the WRF Centre...