CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL FINISHERS

VELDDRIF – Hank McGregor, 47, duly swept home on Saturday for an incredible 14th Berg River Canoe Marathon win, maintaining his solid 10-minute lead as he paddled to the finish of the four-day event in Velddrif with teammate Siseko Ntondini on his wave. Second place, a mere 24 seconds ahead of Ntondini, went to 53-year-old […]

VELDDRIF – Both Jenna Nisbet and Hank McGregor emerged unscathed from the long third stage of the 2025 Berg River Canoe Marathon on Friday, and with big leads going into the final day it will take something dramatic for them not to claim their respective victories on Saturday. 47-year-old McGregor edged out his fellow “old […]

PAARL – As Hank McGregor built an almost unassailable lead on Day 2 of the Berg River Canoe Marathon on Thursday, Jenna Nisbet was capitalising on a “lucky mistake” to take control of the women’s race. 13-time winner McGregor added to his already big overnight lead on the shortened 30km stage from Gouda to Bridgetown, […]

PAARL – Hank McGregor quickly stamped his authority on the 2025 Berg River Canoe Marathon and after building a massive lead of almost six minutes on Day 1 on Wednesday, the 47-year-old multiple World Champion is already strongly favoured to claim his 14th title. While McGregor was cruising to his big overnight lead in the […]

PAARL – Finishing the Berg River Canoe Marathon is by any standard a significant achievement, but there is one paddler in this year’s event whose participation will be extraordinary. If Jannie Malherbe makes it through the four days from Paarl to Velddrif on Wednesday to Saturday, in what promises to be cold and wet conditions, […]

VELDDRIF – The 2025 Berg River Canoe Marathon is shaping up to be a race for the ages with two of the event’s legends facing up against the new generation. Tom Lovemore may have been living in the shadow of his world-beating brother Hamish over the past 18 months, but the 26-year-old from Knysna carved […]

The Stellenbosch-based Maties Canoe Club is leading the pack in terms of the largest club entry countrywide this year, with at least 17 paddlers committed to starting the 63rd Berg River Marathon in Paarl next week. The group, charged mainly by the  “Turbo Toppies” as all 50-year-old plus paddlers at the Maties Canoe Club are known, […]

Heinrich Schloms and Stephanie von der Heyde emerged as the Western Cape Canoe Union river champions for 2025 when they won the men’s and women’s races respectively at the Hermon to Gouda event on the Berg River at the weekend. Schloms was an easy winner by ten minutes over Divieano Pietersen, with first under 23, […]