With just over three weeks to go until the 38th edition of the Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon gets underway and race entries are streaming into race HQ as paddlers finalise their plans for their annual sojourn to the Klein Karoo from 27-28 September. Entries spread over the long course Read more…
2019 will be a far cry from Jenna Ward and Kyeta Purchase’s first Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon together four years ago when they take on the two day roller coaster from Grassridge Dam to the Cradock Sports Complex on 27 and 28 September. 2015 saw Purchase taking on her Read more…
With the ICF World Marathon Championships just three weeks after the Hansa Golden Crisp Fish River Canoe Marathon, the race will play an integral part in the preparation of a number of the stars heading to China to do battle in the global marathon showpiece. The Fish has been moved Read more…
Entries are now open for the 2019 Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon! Click here to access the online entry page. We are looking forward to a fun-filled event sharing our passion for paddling on the fast flowing waters of the Fish on 27 & 28 September! A massive thank you Read more…
Fish organisers expecting the year’s biggest paddling festival to go ahead With the current uncertainty surrounding the coronavirus outbreak worldwide, organisers of the 39th edition of the Fish River Canoe Marathon are confident that they will be able to put on another exciting instalment of the race from 25-26 September. Read more…
In what were both exciting finishes, Andy Birkett and Bridgitte Hartley bagged their maiden K1 Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon titles, and with it the South African K1 River Marathon Championship crowns, at the Cradock Sports Grounds on Saturday. Both races were far from sewn up with Hartley going into Read more…
In conditions that could be described as near perfect, pre-race favourites Hank McGregor and Bridgitte Hartley made off with the 2018 Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon day one spoils at Knutsford on Friday. Euro Steel/Fenn Kayaks’ McGregor diced it out at the front of the race with good friend and Read more…
Paddlers from every corner of the country will converge on the small Karoo town of Cradock for the 37th edition of the Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon that gets under way from Grassridge Dam on Friday and finishes at the Cradock Sports Grounds on Saturday. The event, which has become Read more…
Seven-time Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon champion Hank McGregor has a plan to make up for his lack of K1 river racing time, and the veteran says he is race fit and raring to go at this year’s edition of the race that gets underway from Grassridge Dam on Friday. Read more…
With five races in as many weeks in different parts of the world, Bridgitte Hartley returns home to the 2018 Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon next weekend hoping to bag a first SA K1 River Marathon Championship title. Hartley’s international jet-setting started with a bronze medal at the ICF Sprint Read more…