Drak 2016
Welcome top the N3TC Drak Challenge 2016 on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 January 2016!
Keep an eye on our river levels page here as the summer approaches and tripping season kicks in.
Entries will open 1 December 2015.
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FNB Drak Music Experience set to take Drak to the next level
Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the popular N3TC Drak Challenge Canoe Marathon on 20 and 21 January has been taken to a new level by the introduction of the FNB Drak Music Experience concert on the Saturday afternoon headlining the hugely popular local singer songwriter Matthew Mole. The concert is designed to integrate the large community…
Birkett beats McGregor at his own game while Solms wins her seventh Drak
Andy Birkett scooped his fourth N3TC Drak Challenge title as he out sprinted the reigning world champion Hank McGregor at the end of a riveting 65km canoe marathon that also entrenched Abby Solms as the race’s most successful paddler when she won her seventh women’s title. From the first stage start at Castleburn in the…
Cape’s Notten to debut at 2022 Drak Challenge
With a field already stacked with the best river marathoners in the country, the race for men’s title at the N3TC Drak Challenge in partnership with FNB took an unusual twist with the confirmation that new surfski world champion Nicky Notten will be on the startline. The Capetonian is a rare feature of river races…
N3TC Drak by numbers
0 – the number of compulsory portages on the race 1 – the number of international winners of the race – Max Hoff (Germany) in 2007 2 – the number of weirs on the race 3 – the number of athletes to have won three consecutive titles – Abby Solms, Hank McGregor and Andy Birkett…
Drak team entry option gets thumbs up
Paddlers entering the N3TC Drak Challenge in partnership with FNB will have the option of entering in a team following confirmation from the race organisers that they will retain the format that was introduced as an experiment last year. The concept is largely social and allows two paddlers to enter as a team and opt…
Birkett and Solms unstoppable at N3TC Drak Challenge
Overnight leaders Andy Birkett and Abby Solms were in a league of their own throughout the second stage of the 2016 N3TC Drak Challenge as they completed the successful defence of their men’s and women’s titles. In a day that saw then men’s top ten shaken up dramatically when second placed Hank McGregor was…
