Durban-based elite racer Jenna Nisbet has shaken the women’s race of the Berg River Canoe Marathon by adding her name to the Early Bird entries for the 240km classic from Paarl to Velddrif from 6 to 9 July. Nisbet made...

Melanie van Niekerk won the women’s S1 surfski in Cape Town on Sunday, 1 May 2022. The race was a fight throughout and it seemed like the top three of van Niekerk, Kira Bester and Michelle Burn before van Niekerk...

The country’s best and up-and-coming sprint paddlers battled it out for the various positions for the national teams at the 2022 SA Schools and Senior Sprint Championships at Lomond Dam outside Gansbaai. From a senior perspective Esti Olivier proved why...

Powerhouse crew of Olympic sprint medallist Bridgitte Hartley and Pippa McGregor cruised to victory at the Prescient Freedom Paddle surfski race around Robben Island on Freedom Day on Wednesday, 27 April 2022. The women's race was shaken by the late...

With the Covid-19 pandemic seemingly releasing its grip on South Africa, Canoeing South Africa are excited to welcome back a full calendar of national championship events throughout the year with exciting international competition also on the radar. The South African...

Surfski junior champion, Saskia Hockly, bagged a win in the Marineskis Race – the penultimate leg of the seven-race Chalupsky Properties Surfski Series on Friday, 4 March 2022. Hockly is now poised to claim a rare series overall women's title...

Overnight leaders Abby Solms and Bianca Haw glided into the Blue Lagoon to win the 2022 MyLife Dusi Canoe Marathon title. The women’s race had the potential to turn into a tight contest; however Solms and Haw didn’t put a...

Following her strong result at the recent N3TC Drak Challenge and recovering from a bout of Covid-19, Christie Mackenzie is fit and firing to race at the 2022 MyLife Dusi Canoe Marathon starting on Thursday, 17 February. Mackenzie is the...

Eight-time women's race champion, Abby Solms, used her years of accumulated experience on the river to complete a dream comeback at the N3TC Drak Challenge, winning the first stage by almost a minute from the chasing pack of Dusi...

The new crew of Jordy Peek and Christie Mackenzie staved off strong challenge from the brand-new combination of Abby Solms and Bianca Haw to win the Lighthouse Designs Ozzie Gladwin title on Sunday, 16 January 2022. Peek reveals it was...

Canoeing stars, Christie Mackenzie and Jordan Peek, have agreed to paddle together to try and win the K2 MyLife Dusi Canoe Marathon title after dominating the K1 title race last season. Double winner, Mackenzie, has established herself as the all-round...

MyLife Dusi champion paddler Christie Mackenzie has found herself locked in a race against time to get back to top form after falling prey to the Covid fourth wave, as she hopes to go one better than her second...

Sandton City Cycle Nation’s Madelaine le Roux claimed top honours at the aQuelle Tour Durban after a sizzling finish to the race on Sunday, 28 November 2021. The race quickly developed into a four rider break, with two from Customized...

Candice Murray and Kira Bester held off the challenge from Durbanites Jenna Nisbet and Saskia Hockly to win the women’s title at the Dis-Chem Pete Marlin Surfski Race at Nahoon Beach in East London on Sunday, 31 October 2021. Hockly's...

Team South Africa finished the 2021 ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships with four bronze medals as the pair of Jenna Nisbet and Saskia Hockly ended third in the Senior Women’s K2 race in Pitesti, Romania on Sunday, 3 October...

It was another strong day of paddling from Team South Africa as Christie Mackenzie added a bronze to the medal tally in the Under 23 K1 women's event at the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Pitești on Friday,...

River paddling star, Christie Mackenzie showed impressive form ahead of the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships winning the SA K1 River Championship title at the recent Standard Bank Liebenbergsvlei Canoe Marathon. Mackenzie had a tough fight on her hands with...

Nikki Birkett, won the 2021 Berg River Canoe Marathon women's title in a race shrouded in high drama on Sunday, 8 August 2021. The canoe specialist claimed the women's race despite mistakenly following a group of paddlers down a wrong...

With the country moving to adjusted alert level three, paddlers have been given the go-ahead by Canoeing South Africa to return to training and events with immediate effect, but with a strong appeal to remain fully compliant with the...

Nikki Birkett scooped the Women’s Singles crown at the Scottburgh to Brighton surfski marathon. Birkett, who has been concentrating on training with her husband (Andy Birkett) for the upcoming Berg River Canoe Marathon, said that the race had been a...