Welcome on board! The Federação Portuguesa de Canoagem's membership application has been approved by the Executive Board: Portugal becomes an official member of World Rafting Federation. Athletes are training and looking forward to their first international experience and the WRF President, Mr Danilo Barmaz, declares "We are glad to cooperate and...
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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...
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2019 Senior Worlds is set to be another amazing event. Please be aware the schedule may still change slightly, depending on TV requirements, and also the number of entries received for the event. Read Bulletin 2
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Turkish Rafting Federation and World Rafting Federation are glad to announce that Turkish Airlines has been appointed as official partner of WRF Senior World Championship 2019 that will be held in Tunceli from 8th to 13th June. The event is a great opportunity to show the results of the first year of WRF: an important meeting for the Federations...
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"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...
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On 8th March 2019 the International Federation for Sport Officials (IFSO) was created in The Hague (Netherlands). The first general assembly took place at the Peace Palace, the headquarters of the International Court of Justice. The World Rafting Federation, represented by President Danilo Barmaz, was present as a founding member. In 1987 the...
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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...
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National Rafting Championship of Nepal is over : on 19th, 20th and 21st February 2019 Nepal Rafting & Canoeing Association (NRCA) organized a big event held at Trishuli River, Fishling Chitwan. "We had circulated the message to all over Nepal and altogether 11 Teams ( 66 rafters ) took part in the championship from different states of the nation:...
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After the success of the first World Rafting Championship in Italy, last July, Tunceli will host the Senior World Champs: Turkey 2019. After several discussions about the uncertain situation in Sort (Spain) due to force majeure, the Executive board, bearing in mind the positive reaction that the Turkish organizing Committee is creating by...
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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...
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The agonistic field of Rafting has never been a reality in France, despite several athletes from the French slalom and whitewater canoe have been paddling and winning worldwide competitions for years and thousands of tourists a season run the French rivers in rafts. Since the WRF foundation the FFCK started looking at this paddle sport from...
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On 12th May 2019 France will hold the first National Championship of Rafting: L'Argentière-La Bessée will host professional athletes and beginner rafters (who will be guided by a stag trainer) who will compete in the middle of the Alps in the southeastern France for the first time in the history of French Rafting, in order to win the National...
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President's annual report: Happy New Rafting Year Dear Friends, it is with great pleasure that I write to all of you and wish you a wonderful 2019. 2018 is getting to an end and we will all carry with us all the memories of this historical year: a year that saw our birth and our steady growth; a year that, beside all successes, is the first step...
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WRF announces that in December 2018 the Iraqi Canoe Federation (I.C.C.F.) sent the WRF membership application. According to the Cooperative Agreement between ICF and WRF, WRF approved the application of the Iraqi Canoe Federation : I.C.C.F. is officially a Member of the World Rafting Federation. "I hope to work well together to develop my...
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Canoe and Rafting Federations of Brazil sign a historical MoU. Interview with Rebeca Fernandes, Vice-President of the Brazilian Rafting Association. - Rebeca, a new sport era began in Brazil, what do you think are the benefits about being with WRF? - I think that the membership of our Federation with WFR helps us in the battle we face every day...
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WRF is glad to announce that on 24th November 2018 the FAC (Federación Argentina de Canoas) Directors Board Meeting celebrated in La Plata city signed the WRF membership application. According to the Cooperative Agreement between ICF and WRF, WRF approved the application of the Federación Argentina de Canoas : FAC is officially a Member of the...
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XXXVII ICF ORDINARY CONGRESS Budapest – Hungary 2018 On 30th April 2018 WRF has been recognised by the the International Canoe Federation and, as an Associate Member, has been invited to the biennial ICF Ordinary Congress that took place in Budapest (Hungary) on 23rd-24th November 2018. The WRF delegation was composed by Mr. Danilo Barmaz (WRF...
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During the ICF Congress 2018 in Budapest Mr. Danilo Barmaz, President of the WRF, and Mr. Jean Zoungrana , President of the Fédération Francaise de Canoe Kayak signed the the Memorandum of Understanding: WRF and FFCK will cooperate through a common line towards programs and activities with the aim of enlarging the number of people practicing the...
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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...
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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...
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18th october 2018 - Romania becomes an official member of the World Rafting Federation . Mr. Catalin Campeanu, Responsible for the Rafting Department of the Federatia Romana de Kaiac Canoe declares: "I am happy to announce that I have succeeded in having the adhesion signed by the President of the Federation: the Romanian Kayak-Canoe Federation...
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Yesterday (7th October) the World Rafting Federation (WRF) and the Turkish Rafting Federation have signed an important agreement for the development of " WRF Training Program for raft and coaches " in Turkey. According this agreement signed in Kiev, during the WRF Para Rafting Test Event, Turkish Rafting Federation is being engaged by the WRF to...
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WRF has launched its Training Programme for Raft Guide & Coaches . The Programme is the result of the WRF Commission’s work started in Kosovo during the week of WRF World Cup in Zubin Potok (from 22nd to 24th June 2018). On that occasion members of the national federations had the first workshop about the competence's fields of a worldwide...
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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,...
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Less than 1 month to one of the most important events of the South America: 23 days left until the National Championship in Chile ! Pucòn will host the biggest exponents of this extreme sport, fans and athletes from all the nation and the whitewater of Rio Trancura is waiting for their paddles. The city, 21 thousands inhabitants, is a tourist...
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11/08/2018, Rize, Turkey - Before the Turkish Super League's football match Çaykur Rizespor VS Kasimpaşa the President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdoğan had a meeting with the WRF Vice President and President of the Turkish Rafting Federation, Mr Fikret Yardimci, other members of the National Board and some national athletes. The president Erdoğan...
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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 , Mr. Makar Sargsyan , Mis. Tetiana Kulbaka has presented its...
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After the World Rafting Championship settled in Italy from 21st to 24th of July the President of the Armenian Rafting Federation and the Rafting.am club met Mr. Levon Vahradyan , Minister of Sport and Youth Affairs . During the meeting, in the capital Yerevan, Mr. Seto Zakaryan , President of the Armenian Rafting Federation , reported to Mr....
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U23 & JUNIOR WORLD RAFTING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2018: AN INCREDIBLE FIGHT TO CONQUER THE WORLD TITLES Villeneuve and Ivrea has hosted 40 teams competing in the 3 World Rafting Federation disciplines: downriver, slalom and RX, on the Dora Baltea river. Many surprises in the italian Valle d'Aosta and Piemonte regions led the young athletes tuned not only...
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The second race of these World Championships is over. Today, in Ivrea, the athletes performed in the Slalom race discipline on the Dora Baltea River. 25 teams tested the water that comes from the Mont Blanc. Yesterday, after the opening ceremony of the World Championships, the teams and the coaches were given a free hour to study the river before...
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