18 kilometres of rowing, and seven kilometres of running while shouldering a 100-kilogram boat! These are the figures that make Red Bull XRow what it is – the world’s hardest and craziest rowing challenge!Â
The rest is pain, teamwork, and fun. The fastest team on the race course from Zug to Lucerne was the “Swiss Selection” with Mario Gyr and André Vonarburg, followed by the Frankfurter RG Germania and Seeclub Zurich.
Sam Sutton has continued New Zealand’s astonishing recent kayaking success by winning the world extreme whitewater title in Austria.
The 23-year-old Rotorua paddler won the adidas Sickline championship down the Wellerbrcke rapids in Austria’s tztal valley, defending the title he won last year.
And Sutton needed the fastest-ever  … More
Hundreds of athletes from all over the world are set to descend on the white water of Costa Rica’s famous RÃo Pacuare this week for the 2011 World Rafting Championship. More than 50 teams from as far away as Chile, South Africa, the United States, Europe, Japan and New Zealand will challenge team Costa Rica on its home waters Oct. 4-10.
The biannual tournament represents the pinnacle of the rafting competition calendar. This will be the largest tournament in the 20-year history of the event – a reflection of   … More
A man fishing from a kayak was towed half a mile out to sea after he hooked a 6ft (1.8m) shark.
Devon vet Rupert Kirkwood, 51, was fishing off Ilfracombe in north Devon when the tope took his mackerel bait.
He said it was “fun” as the shark towed his 16ft (4.8m) plastic kayak away from shore like a scene from the movie Jaws … More