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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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Another step towards a greener future has been taken by the WRF, by signing a membership with Green Sport Alliance (GSA). Earlier this month the WRF board announced that it was happily joining GSA, the environmentally-focused trade organisation that convenes stakeholders from around the sporting world to promote healthy, sustainable communities....
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After the long wait due to the coronavirus pandemic, 2021 is finally here and so it's the sport calendar . Keeping our eyes on the WRF World Rafting and Para-Rafting Championships 2021 - scheduled in France starting on June 28th, every nation now is working, following all the safety protocols, organizing national races where possible. Despite the...
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WRF Interview of the Month After the 2020 agonistic season that has been cancelled due to the Covid-19 outbreak, we are all trying to overcome this rough period. A good starting point is Good Governance, a collaborative process of decision-making. Mr. José Perurena López answered our questions, focusing on his view on Good Governance through the...
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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 .
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Dear Presidents, Athletes, Guides, Coaches, Technicians and Rafting lovers, we are close to the end of this tough year that changed and is still changing our society due to the Covid-19 outbreak. I hope all of you can consider it a challenge and that 2021 will bring us out, overcoming this awful human and economic situation. First of all I would...
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Step by step the international calendar is taking shape. After the Covid-19 outbreak the Asian Championship planned for last October was suspended. Everything in India was ready but nothing is gone: the resort town of Manali in the Himachal Pradesh state has to wait one year, and just for international athletes. Indeed, the Indian Rafting...
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During the last months the WRF Training Guide Programme Commission worked on the structure and contents of our Training Programme, appointing its details, and shared the fundamental steps during an e-conference where National Training Responsibles and Presidents took part in November. After the initial greetings of the WRF President Danilo Barmaz...
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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...
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The WRF’s strategic objective around gender equality calls for growing female participation at the World Championship to 50 per cent. The ultimate goal is to assist in removing barriers preventing women from participating in sport at all levels. This goal is reflected also in the introduction of the mixed category for the RX discipline. REBECA...
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