Witherden set for “vastly different” Olympic Games
Seasoned official Alan Witherden will be on duty at the Sea Forest Waterway, eager to serve at his fourth Olympic Games.
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SA surfski paddlers swept the boards at the ICF Ocean Racing world championships on the west African island of Lanzarote on Sunday, winning five world titles, with Nick Notten and Michelle Burn leading the charge by taking the men's and women's titles. https://t.co/33FwkPzS17
Today we celebrate the role of youth in our sport and our country - the role the youth has played in getting us to where we are today, and the role we know they will play in the future.
Happy Youth Day!
Canoeing South Africa has named a twenty three strong squad for the ICF Canoe Marathon Championship to be held in Pitesti, Romania at the end of September.
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McGregor and Lovemore grabs senior K2 gold as Lovemore makes it three golds in-a-row. Nisbet and Hockloy retain their national K2 title - read all the details here : https://t.co/3g473qwekX
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Day One of SA Marathon Champs gets under way at 9:30 on Friday morning with the U23 Men and Women, juniors at midday and the short course races at 2:30pm. Join us on the SA Canoe Marathon Facebook page https://t.co/UKRwySP5zR to follow live streaming updates.
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Olympic Hopes squad : Helen Jansen van Vuuren, Finlay Leask, Matthew Privett, Joshua Simpkins, Simon Chubb. Neriyah Dill, Amy Duffett, Kerry Elliott, Caitlyn Evans, Luke Salmon, Lungelo Shange, Nicholas Erwee. Jordan Klopper, Theo Dreyer, Tomé dos Santos, Daniel van Zyl-Smit
Newly crowned national surfski champions Hank McGregor and Michelle Burn will spearhead the assault on the ICF Ocean Racing world titles in Lanzarote in July, following the announcement of the national team on Friday.
See the team and read more here https://t.co/yDLTH4kSqZ
@Hank_McGregor and @meder_burn completed a rare cleansweep of singles and doubles titles at the @FennKayaks SA Surfski Champs held in Durban on the weekend when they won their S2 title races from Durban to Mdloti on Sunday.
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Andy Birkett added his name to the single and double ski entry shortly after multiple world marathon champ Hank McGregor, bolstering the already world-class field entered.
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As the cream of the country’s surfski paddlers prepare to head to Durban this weekend for the Fenn SA Surfski Champs, the elite race has been spiced up by the introduction of a new handicap prize for the fastest male or female paddler. Read more at https://t.co/p1sSy0ykI6
Following this past weekend’s SA Sprint Selection event at Shongweni Dam, Chrisjan Coetzee and @EstivT have been selected by Canoeing South Africa as the two athletes that will attempt to qualify for this year’s Tokyo Olympic Games.
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Canoeing SA has signed a deal with UK based supplement manufacturer @science_in_sport_sa to ensure paddlers can confidently purchase supplements and recovery products that are fully WADA and SAIDS compliant. Read more here https://t.co/ZTRVQjuZZ2