Para-Rafting

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Last race day in Konjic at the European Rafting Championships and the downriver awarded the key points of the competition, deciding the overall rankings. The 12 countries competing paddled for 6 kilometers in the blue waters of Neretva river. With 290 points France 1 is officially the MEN European Rafting Champion: 40:25.09 secured the downriver...

It’s RX day in Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina : the most dynamic and strategic discipline of the European Champs week. The RX qualification at midday selected the matches in Neretva river and tonight the lights were on for an intense knock out. 30 teams battled among the gates to make it to the 4 finals. In the men category final A crowned France...

Slalom day officially starts the competition at the European Championships in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Earlier this afternoon, during the first manche, the 30 teams competing drew the first lines among 12 gates in Neretva river : 8 greens and 4 challenging reds. After a calmer first section, where rhythm and coordination were the key, the main...

The historical city of Konjic welcomes 30 rafting teams on Neretva river . The European Rafting Championships, that take place every two years, are ready to be held in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in the Herzegovina-Neretva Canton. The town, born on the shores of the clear blue waters of Neretva, is one of the oldest permanent settlements in Bosnia...

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...

The World Champs of Para-Rafting are over: the RX discipline decided the first Overall Champions in history. Iarysh Denis, Potanin Viktor (RUS), Salvatore Cutaia (ITA) and Igor Bondar (UKR) confirmed the 1st place in the Amputee category: the 120 points of RX gold guaranteed to them the Overall victory in the final against the Italians Giandinoto...

Slalom day! 8 gates in the center of Kiev selected the first Slalom Para-Rafting World Champions this afternoon. 12 teams paddled through 8 downstream and 4 upstream gates for two manches in Dnieper river. Precious seconds depended on penalties arising from the red upstream gates: no team missed any gate (that would add a 50 seconds penalty) but...

For the first time in Rafting history Para-athletes are competing in a worldwide Rafting Championships. Today rafters from 5 countries opened the event in Kiev with the Downriver, divided in 3 categories: R4 LTA (Amputee, Class 3: legs, torso, arms can work), Open Category (Visual Impairment Class B3, Hearing Impairment - Deaf athletes and Down...

For the first time in Rafting history Para-athletes are ready to compete at the World Championship next weekend. Tomorrow, one year after the test event in Ukraine, rafters from Armenia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia will fly to Kiev and paddle the WRF disciplines on the Dnieper river: Downriver, Slalom and RX . The WRF Para-Rafting...

"I have good news" says Benedetto Del Zoppo, Sport Department Responsible of the Italian Rafting Federation (FIRAFT): the Italian Paralympic Committee (C.I.P.) recognized Rafting as an official sport by means of a Memorandum of Understanding and the next months the ParaRafting datas will be straight observed and analized by CIP. It is a...

Today (14/11/2018), the President of the National Olympic Committee of Armenia, Mr. Gagik Tsarukyan, met and congratulated the Para-Rafting Armenian National Teams on their important results achieved in Kiev during the WRF Pre-Worlds (4-8 October 2018). Mr. Gagik Tsarukyan agrees to further help the development of rafting in Armenia and he...

First gold for Belarus and another successful WRF Conference in Kiev: the Para-Rafting Commission's Members, technicians, coaches and athletes defined the Para-rafting rules. Belarus is the first country that takes a gold in a WRF Para-Rafting Event, the competition that took place in Kiev, 4th-8th October 2018: a positive feedback for the 2019...

The capital of Ukraine is ready to host the event of the next week: Pre World Rafting Championship. It is a test event: for the first time, as a WRF's initiative, international athletes will meet and compete in this water sport. On 4th October rafters, coaches, technicians and presidents from six selected nations will arrive to Kiev: Armenia,...

KIEV, UKRAINE - The WRF Pararafting Commission chaired by Mr. Oleksandr Bakanychev has published the sport categories for Para Rafting competitions; according to the International Para Olympic Committee requirements, the Commission composed by Mr. Bakanychev, Mr. Andrey Batalov ( https://www.worldraftingfederation.com/para-rafting/13-...

On the 30th June Oleksandr Bakanychev, President of Ukrainian Rafting Federation and of WRF Para Rafting Commission, had an appointment with the President of the Olympic Committee of Ukraine Mr. Sergey Bubka in Kiev, where the Para Rafting World Championships will be held in 2019. "The National Olympic Committee of Ukraine and Ukraine Sport...

Para Rafting World Championship will arrive to Kiev in Ukraine, following decision made by the World Rafting Federation. Kiev will host the first R4 Para Rafting World Championship (6th-8th September 2019) : this was announced by the President of the WRF Para Rafting Commission Oleksandr Bakanychev. “Our objective is not just to organise a World...

The WRF Executive Board, during the meeting taken place on 6th April in Dalaman (Turkey), has appointed the President of Ukrainian Rafting Federation, Mr. Oleksandr Bakanychev, as President of the WRF Pararafting Commission . The Pararafting is a strategic activity in the development of the rafting worldwide. Rafting in fact is accessible to...