Klip River sees paddling action
For 72 years, the members of the club have arranged races, training and seeding opportunities for the racing kayakers in Gauteng.
The first canoe club established in Transvaal was the Johannesburg Canoe Club, based at Wemmer Pan.
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For 72 years, the members of the club have arranged races, training and seeding opportunities for the racing kayakers in Gauteng.
On January 25, the club hosted the annual two-day Klip River Race from Daleside, through Henley on Klip, to Meyerton.
A distance of 33km was travelled on each day, with a 3km portage which saw paddlers take their boats out of the water and run or walk before they had to put them back in the water.
This took place at the Henley Weir, where the high water levels from heavy rainfalls in the previous weeks washed over creating a potential danger.
The water levels ensured paddlers made the best opportunity to enjoy the river race, which was used as a seeding and training race for the upcoming Dusi River race, the world’s toughest endurance canoe race from Pietermaritzburg to Durban.
The race would take place from February 17 to 19.
Several paddlers from the Victoria Lake Canoe Club, based at Germiston Lake, participated in the exciting river race enjoying the rapids and the swollen fast-flowing river.
From the union’s development programme, Katiso Hlahatsi and Peter Chissano finished 11th in four hours and 11 minutes, while Ryan Booysen and Robert Hamer from Bedfordview were the fifth sub-veteran finishers in a time of four hours and 54 minutes.
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