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World Earth Day is the biggest environmental event dedicated to the planet and has been celebrated every year for 51 years. Founded in 1970 to sensitize the world to the importance of conserving the Earth's natural resources, in recent years it has managed to mobilize over one billion people in the 193 countries involved . Each edition has its...
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Based on the extensive restrictions imposed in Estonia throughout March, the Võhandu Marathon team announces that: THE MARATHON WILL TAKE PLACE ON May 22nd, 2021! The Open track will take place as soon as possible. Participants will be notified at least two weeks in advance. At the moment, there is a possibility that the Afterparty of the Võhandu...
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The world is still struggling with the Covid-19 pandemic and most of us are still locked home thinking on how nice would be to do some rafting with our team, friends or family. Trying to give you some relief we decided to tiktok-ing a bit! Are you with us? We need your support! We will start posting videos from all over the world to give you the...
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ICCE President John Bales and the Board of Directors welcome WRF as a new partner. The International Council for Coaching Excellence (ICCE) is a not-for-profit, global organisation established in 1997 with the mission of leading and developing sport coaching globally. ICCE operates in 50 countries believing that international collaboration and...
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Following the project of the ICF International Canoe Federation we have created some games too for our younger rafters ! The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic were felt by all, but perhaps the most affected by the changes of this period were the kids. T his is the reason why - while we all wait to be able to go back to the river to have fun we can...
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April 6 was declared as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace (IDSDP) by the UN General Assembly in 2013, creating a historical link to the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. This decision represented a significant step in recognizing the transformative power of sport and its great potential in advancing positive social...
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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...
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The second stage of the National Rafting Championships 2021 in Costa Rica held by the Federación Costarricense de Rafting is over! More than 10 teams clashed on 27th and 28th March on the waves of the Rio Pacuare, Costa Rica, in the three WRF disciplines: RX, Slalom and Downriver. The winners of the female category are the Chicas del Pacuare, who...
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Francesco Ricci Bitti is a former tennis player, engineer and sports administrator from Bologna, Italy. He is President of the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF) . He is also a member of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Coordination Commission for Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, and held the same position for Rio...
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Peace and Sport , the international organization based in Monaco which promotes peace using the power of sport, will join forces with the World Rafting Federation (WRF) to use rafting as a tool for social inclusion and overcoming differences . The World Rafting Federation is an Associate Member of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) who is...
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On 20th-21st March 9 teams competed for the 2021 Croatian title at the Senior National Championship in Zagreb , Donja Dubrava village, organised by the Canoe Federation on Drava river. The overall podium reports the same results of every discipline, not without intense battles in evert field, and confirms the names for the World Rafting...
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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...
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On 19th February WRF officially became a member of the International Fair Play Committee (CIFP), with the signature of the two presidents Mr Danilo Barmaz and Dr Jenő Kamut i. CIFP is supporting and promoting Fair Play worldwide since its foundation in Paris in 1963, by UNESCO, with a special emphasis on children, adolescents and those in charge...
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Last weekend the agonistic season in Italy has finally begun. After the forced stop due to the Pandemic and a snowy winter all around the country, Italy gets back in the river on Vara , that hosts nearly 150 rafters in Brugnato, in the province of La Spezia, Liguria. Para-rafting athletes were also there, some of them experienced the rapids for...
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On 27th and 28th February the Federación Costarricense de Rafting organised the first meeting of the National Championship that will select the teams for France 2021. The first race weekend saw eight R4 Senior teams paddling on the rapids of Rio Pejibaye . Considering the upcoming event of the World Champs, the winners are the favourite...
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WRF is proud to announce that it has joined the UNFCCC’s Sports for Climate Action initiative as a signatory to the Sports for Climate Action Framework . Since 1994 the UNFCCC is working through leadership, collaboration and ambition as key messages, preventing “dangerous” human interference with the climate system. The Sports for Climate Action...
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A new partnership has been singed between WRF and Sport and Sustainability International (SandSi). SandSi is a not-for-profit international organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, that leverages the power of sport to encourage mind and behaviour changes towards more responsible conduct, aligning with the Paris Agreement and the 17 Sustainable...
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WRF Interview of the Month Ivo Ferriani is an IOC Executive Board Member since 2018, sport director, former professional bobsledder ( and former river guide ). He is the President of the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) since 2010, IOC Member since 2016 and President of the Association of International Olympic Winter Sports...
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“ We are all in the same boat. Oceans, lakes, rivers, it is all water. Water binds us together . WRF always feels the responsibility to consider the protection of the environment when organising and promoting its activities. We undertake to be an active member of this project, that has a lot in common with ours”. With these words the WRF...
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January 27th 1945: the survivors of the Auschwitz extermination camp were freed from the horror of the holocaust, after 1.1 million people lost their lives in the camp's gas chambers or from starvation and disease. Memory that in recent times our world seems to have lost, showing a reality in which more and more walls are erected, in which the...
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