Pan-American Rafting

WRF has revealed the venues that will play host to the Rafting weekends during the 2023. Next year, the Senior World Championships will be held in Italy (Sondrio) and the registrations are already open. Massimo Desiati,President of the Sport Department: “ Following strong collaboration between the WRF and Pan-American Council, we are pleased to...

Today RX has been the last discipline of the Pan-American Champs and many countries with a lot of river experience competed through the strategic gates for the first time: it has been demanding but satisfying. On the first day of the event the qualification phase on the Arenera rapid at Puente Miranda decided the RX matches. In the men category...

Last night heavy rain strongly increased the water level and the put-in of women and mix teams has been moved after the two 4 level rapids that are in the first km. The men paddled the 8 km downriver that required the combination of fast paddling in the slow parts and clean technique in the long demanding rapids. Venezuela - Derrumbe rapid The...

First day of competition was the literal definition of slalom! The RX qualification inaugurated the race weekend with a fast sprint on the slalom course. Best time (91.77) was scored by the home team of Colombia 3 in the men category. William Fernando Sarmiento, Diego Tapias, Diego Mejia, Jorge Gomez and Sebastian Rojas will face Brasil, with the...

At the beginning of the Pan-American rafting championship the first Pan-American Council in history has been elected in the Valle de San Josè, Santander, Colombia. Martin Martinez, the WRF representative of the athletes, welcomed the delegations and opened the meeting, presenting the members: President Freddy Merchan (Colombia) Vice-president...

One day to go! 33 teams landed in San Gil, in the Valle the San Josè. The department of Santander, Colombia, is hosting the Pan-American Rafting Championship from 28 September to 2 October. Teams from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Perù and Venezuela arrived and are ready to paddle in rio Fonce. Italy sent a mix...

On 13rd January the President of the Comité Olimpico Peruano, Dr Renzo Vitto Fabrizio Manyar Velazco certified that "the Peruvian Canoeing Federation is the representative of the rafting discipline in the country as a national sports representative for the fulfillment of the international agreements assumed between the International Canoeing...

Due to the new measures introduced by the Government of Costa Rica the Pan-American Rafting Championship are cancelled . The Continental event, previously scheduled to take place in Quepos , Puntarenas , at the beginning of December and firstly postponed to March 2021 because of the current Pandemic situation, is definitely underwritten.

After racing was put on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak, WRF Board and National Rafting Federations have been working to put together a plan to allow the season to begin safely. The opening competitions of a revised calendar for the 2020/2021 season were discussed throughout this challenging time and WRF Board outlined the international...

The WRF agonistic season is open! Argentina hosted the first event of the 2020 sport season: 16 teams participated in the PanAmerican 2019-2020 Rafting Cup held on 16th, 17th and 18th November, concurrently the National Kayak Championships. Torrentes team from Argentina won the gold with the home court advantage in the U23 Men Category, home...

Vamos Chile! Yesterday was the first day of the National Championship at Los Quenes, Romeral, in the Maule Region, concurrently the Los Quenes River Fest: from 7 to 10 November the whitewater of Rìo Teno is selecting the rafters who will carry the flag of Chile in the 2020 international agonistic season. The Silver team at the last WRF World...

Chile and Italy make progress, but the revelation crew of 2019 is Kazakhstan. On 11th June the Munzur river hosted the RX for women and men teams who paddled the Tunceli Venue on Time Trial rafts for the qualification in the morning. In the women category the best 4 times had straight access to the quarter finals: Russia 1 with 64,74 seconds,...

After successfully hosting the last Olympic Games in 2016, Rio de Janeiro will host Pan-American Master Games in September 2020 and rafting (R4) has been included in the programme thanks to the collaboration between Brazilian Rafting Association, Brazilian Canoe Federation, ICF, WRF and IMGA. United under the spirit of sport for all and promoting...

The first WRF Pan-American will be held in the Rio Fuy (Chile) in November 2020, whereas the 2022 edition will be organised in Brazil in Santa Catarina in November. Brasil Rafting Association has agreed to step aside for two years in its pursuit of staging the WRF Pan-American Championships, the Pan- America’s largest rafting event, handing...