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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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…
Hartley hungry for Drak Challenge title
Olympic paddling heroine Bridgitte Hartley has set her sights on adding the 2020 N3TC Drak Challenge canoe marathon title in partnership with FNB, from 1-2 February, to her impressive resume of paddling achievements. The London 2012 500m K1 women’s bronze medallist has a jam-packed schedule again this season, having just become the first South African…
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…
2018 – Birkett races into record books
Andy Birkett bagged a fifth consecutive win at the N3TC Drak Challenge on Sunday to equal Ant Stott’s record for the most overall race wins, racing away from his FNB Dusi partner Hank McGregor in a gruelling duel on the lowest river in the race’s 25 year history. Birkett started the day with a two…
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…
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…
