Dusi champs win again
Saturday February 18, 2012Defending champions Andy Birkett and Jason Graham won the final stage of the Unlimited Dusi canoe marathon on Saturday to clinch the 61st edition of the race at Blue Lagoon in Durban.
Champs dominate Dusi
Friday February 17, 2012Defending champions Andy Birkett and Jason Graham turned in a superb performance of running and paddling on Friday to take a complete stranglehold on The Unlimited 2012 title.
Birkett, Graham on top
Friday February 17, 2012Defending champs Andy Birkett and Jason Graham snatched the early psychological advantage when they edged out the dream team of Thulani Mbanjwa and Sbonelo Zondi in an end sprint on Thursday’s first day of The Unlimited Dusi canoe marathon.
Open Dusi expected
Thursday February 16, 2012With a bumper field of over 1800 paddlers assembled for the start of the 61st edition of The Unlimited Dusi canoe marathon on Thursday, the K2 championship race is poised to provide three days of cut-throat racing from Camps Drift in Pietermaritzburg to Blue lagoon in Durban, with no clear favourite in either the men’s and women’s races.
Hillary’s injury handicap
Tuesday January 31, 2012Hillary Pitchford, top contender for The Unlimited Dusi women’s title, has been sidelined by a broken wrist following a freak accident while training for the three-day classic that starts at Camps Drift on 16 February.
Hartley working hard
Tuesday January 24, 2012By Mark Etheridge
Our London Olympics canoeing hopeful, Bridgitte Hartley’s preparations have taken her to four different countries as she bids for boating glory later this year.
Olympian for Dusi
Tuesday January 24, 2012Hungarian former world champion Attila Adrovicz has become the first Olympic canoeing medallist to enter The Unlimited Dusi canoe marathon, and will race the three day classic from Pietermaritzburg to Durban starting on 16 February with Dusi veteran Rob Humphry.
Hank makes history
Monday January 23, 2012Hank McGregor paddled his way into the history books by becoming the first canoeist to win three back-to-back K1 titles in the Global Trader Drakensberg Challenge, holding off a spirited challenge from Len Jenkins, while Robyn Kime finally bagged the women’s title that seemed fated to elude her.
‘Queen’ back in SA
Wednesday January 4, 2012The race for the women’s title in The Unlimited Dusi canoe race that starts in Pietermaritzburg on 16 February has been thrown wide open by the surprise announcement that Canadian based Abbey Ulansky will jet back to South Africa to defend her K2 title with Robyn Kime.
Champ Hank on his 2011
Wednesday November 9, 2011Recently crowned men’s K1 marathon world champion, our Hank McGregor has been named November’s International Canoe Federation (ICF) Athlete of the Year.
