Author: Drak

As paddlers start to enter the 2019 edition of the N3TC Drak Challenge canoe marathon, in partnership with FNB, in the Southern Drakensberg on 19 and 20 January, defending women’s champ Jenna Ward has confirmed she will race back from the northern hemisphere to try and retain her title Ward will return from holidaying in…

Entries have opened for the 26th edition of the N3TC Drak Challenge canoe marathon in the Southern Drakensberg on 19 and 20 January, with the event retaining its status on the International Canoe Federation’s Classic Series. With the approach of regular summer rainfalls paddlers are eyeing the water levels in the popular 62km stretch of…

Preparations are well under way for the 26th edition of the N3TC Drak Challenge bin Underberg on 19 and 20 January, and it will once again form a leg of the International Canoe Federation’s World Series. During the winter the host club Canyon Kayak Club have been hard at work, cleaning up the river, continuing…

The fickle weather left the uMzimkulu River running very low, forcing the organisers to shorten day one of the 2018 N3T Drak Challenge, however Andy Birkett and Robyn Owen claimed the respective men’s and ladies spoils, on a day of drama and incidents that moulded the final overnight leaderboard. The racing was white hot off…

The 25th edition of the N3TC Drak Challenge will once again throw up an exciting showdown in both the women’s and the men’s races when the race gets under way on a testing low uMzimkhulu River on Saturday. The two-day rain-dependant race is the first of the years major races and despite the lack of…

0 – the number of compulsory portages on the race 1 – the number of international winners of the race – Max Hoff (Germany) in 2007 3 – the number of weirs on the race 3 – the number of times the race has been started at the Trout Hatcheries due to low water –…

A fascinating showdown in the foothills of the Southern Drakensberg is looming as a very strong field of female paddlers square off in what is likely to be a fascinating tussle for the vacant N3TC Drak Challenge women’s title this weekend. Seven times winner and defending champion Abby Solms won’t be taking part as she…

While Owen Hemmingway aims to extend his record for the most finishes in the N3TC Drak Challenge canoe marathon, there are four stalwarts aiming to join the elite quartet of paddlers to have completed the two-day, 70km outing twenty times or more. Two of the aspiring “Super Trouts” are East Griqualand locals in Greg Hitchins…

Brothers Alan and Andrew Houston and sisters Jordan and Cana Peek might be partners for the upcoming FNB Dusi Canoe Marathon in February, but come the N3TC Drak Challenge on 20 and 21 January they will be staunch adversaries on the uMzimkhulu River. “Drak is such a prestigious race in KZN, and my favourite K1…