Swellendam — Hank McGregor and Uli Hart gave themselves a perfect final preparation for the World Marathon Championships later this month when they wrapped up victory in the Breede River Marathon on Sunday. While the pair were working hard to see off the challenge of Clint Cook and Thomas Lovemore …
Swellendam — The men’s and women’s events at the Breede River Canoe Marathon face vastly different second-day races for the title on Sunday. In the men’s race, Hank McGregor and Uli Hart crossed the line at the end of Day 1 with a narrow one-second lead over the Ron Benjano …
Swellendam — While the men’s race will be crowning a new crew as the Western Province K2 Champions on Sunday, the defending women’s combination of Kira Bester and Melanie van Niekerk are heavily favoured to retain the title they won a year ago at the two-day Breede River Canoe Marathon. …
Swellendam — Mark Keeling and Luke le Roux had to work hard to put themselves into a position to benefit from a couple of lucky breaks and claim their first major victory when they fought back to win the 2023 Breede River Marathon on Sunday. The pair came from third …
Swellendam — Ron Benjaro and Thomas Lovemore will take a 70-second lead into the second day of the Breede River Canoe Marathon on Sunday after winning the opening stage from Robertson to Bonnievale on Saturday. At the end of the 37km opening stage, Israel’s Benjaro and Lovemore had taken control …
Swellendam — A pair of young, newly crowned World Champions will headline the Breede River Marathon this weekend when Western Province provincial titles are at stake in one of the country’s oldest canoeing events. The 55th “Breede” will see the Western Cape’s top crews battling for the K2 Marathon River …
Hank and Pippa McGregor became the first husband and wife to win the Breede River Canoe Marathon in the same year on Sunday when they wrapped up their respective titles, Hank McGregor romping to victory with Jasper Mocké overall and Pippa McGregor and Jenna Nisbet winning the women’s title convincingly. …
On a first stage reshaped to include marathon-style racing due to low river conditions, Hank McGregor and Jasper Mocké took a vice-like grip on the Breede River Canoe Marathon on Saturday. The 2016 world champion crew led a six boat lead group through the six kilometre flatwater marathon race on …
Some of the world’s best marathon paddlers will gather in the shadow of the Langeberg mountains this weekend for the two-day Breede River Canoe Marathon, that will decide the Western Cape K2 River titles for 2022 and provide some of the elite stars with a last dress rehearsal before the …
The organisers of the 2022 Breede River Canoe Marathon have made changes to the first stage of the popular two-day race to accommodate the anticipated lower than usual water levels, and to introduce the spectator-friendly excitement of marathon-style racing to the event. The start of the first stage has been …
