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After winning the last edition of the N3TC Drak Challenge in partnership with FNB, Durban-based paddling star Jenna Nisbet has set her sights on retaining that title on 29 and 30 January as the start of a wholescale reset of her sporting priorities. The event was the first major canoeing event to be scrapped under…

Paddlers have shown they are eager to get back to the N3TC Drak Challenge Canoe Marathon in partnership with FNB on the weekend of 29 and 30 January 2022, after a successful restart to the national canoeing calendar in 2021 following the pandemic lockdown block on sporting events. The race was the first canoeing major…

In the wake of the cancellation of the sporting events that make up the FNB Drak Adventure Week in Underberg, the sponsors have stepped in to help out community organisations that normally derive income from helping out at the three races, starting with the hard-working Underberg Emergency Medical Services. The tireless paramedics, who service the…

Eleven times world champion Hank McGregor rattled the cages of the aspirant paddlers training for the N3TC Drak Challenge in partnership with FNB at the end of January by winning the annual FastDrak on Wednesday. While he has won the race twice before, it has not been part of his December routine for a number…

When the big field of paddlers sets off from Castleburn Bridge at the start of the N3TC Drak Challenge Canoe Marathon in partnership with FNB the four members of the Hockly family will be scattered around the valleys of the Southern Drakensberg as the Durban family’s affair with paddling  enters a new phase. Dad Clive…

Despite a love-affair that goes back decades, the Umzimkhulu River and Christie Mackenzie have yet to sync up in the elite women’s race over the two days of the N3TC Drak Challenge, in partnership with FNB, which gets underway on 30 January. The young Varsity College/Euro Steel star, who claimed her first major K1 marathon…

As the surprise package at the 2020 N3TC Drak Challenge in partnership with FNB, Team MyLife’s Khumbulani Nzimande is hoping to replicate his scintillating day two form by backing it up with a strong day one at the Southern Drakensberg classic from 30-31 January 2021. Nzimande showed his huge promise when he powered to the…

After finishing second in 2019 and fourth this year, Underberg local Stew Little is hoping to reclaim a spot on the podium at the N3TC Drak Challenge in partnership with FNB on the weekend of 30 and 31 January 2021. Little has quickly made his mark as an Under 23 pacesetter, and is often in…

Defending women’s champion Jenna Ward has cleared her diary in a bid to defend her N3TC Drak Challenge in partnership with FNB title, saying the two-day classic in the Southern Berg is a not-negotiable part of her annual canoeing plans. The 27 year old Durbanite, who scooped her maiden Drak title in 2018 and then…

Andy Birkett paddled to a runaway victory in the 2020 N3TC Drak Challenge in partnership with FNB and in the process became the sole holder of the record for the most number of titles in the Underberg classic. Going into the 27th edition of the two day 75 kilometre race on the Mzimkhulu River Birkett…