Paddlers take on Two-Day Klip River Race
CRAIGHALL PARK – The winning K2 brought in father and son team Michael and Liam Stewart from East Rand Kayak.
A number of paddlers took on the gruelling Two-Day Klip River Race from January 25.
The race was hosted by the Johannesburg Canoe Club based at Wemmer Pan in the south of Joburg.
The course journeyed from Daleside through Henley on Klip to Meyerton covering a distance of 33km per day with a 3km portage. The portage meant that paddlers needed to take their boats out of the water and run, walk or crawl a few kilometres before putting their boat back into the water again.
Jennie Dallas of the Gauteng Canoe Union said, “The water levels were high and enjoyable but not as huge as the previous January. Nevertheless, the paddlers made the best opportunity to enjoy the river race which would be used as a seeding and training race for the upcoming Dusi River Race – the world’s toughest endurance canoe race – from Pietermaritzburg to Durban on February 17 to 19.”
The winning K2 brought in father and son team Michael and Liam Stewart from East Rand Kayak in Benoni with the Sowetan U23 paddlers Benjamin Mntonintshi and Wongama Makasi in second place.
Nick Warren and Collen Gibbs from Parktown clinched the first masters age category win, crossing the finish line in 03:56:00 over two days while Benjamin Cockram and Sean Evans from Craighall Park chased them to finish as the second masters in 03:58:00.
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