The World Rafting Championship in R-4 was opened with spectacular fireworks at the Kastel Fortress, which will be held from tomorrow to July 1st on the Vrbas river in Banjaluka and the river Tara in Foča. The Championship was officially opened by the Serb member of the Presidency of BiH, Milorad Dodik. The rafting flame […]

Igor Kuzmanović, a member of the rafting team of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the master category, believes that this year’s World Cup is a great opportunity for at least one of the four domestic teams to win a medal. – Two teams from the rafting club Dajak will compete in this competition, ours and the

It is little known that great credit for the development of rafting as a sport, first on the Vrbas River, and since this championship on the Tara River, belongs to a man from distant Costa Rica, the late Rafael Gallo, whom we lost last year. This great lover of rivers was a participant in the

This is the first time that the Women’s team from Mongolia is participating at any competition in open category. Their trainer Tupshan Gera expects that they can achieve a great result. – Even though we had a long winter and did not have a lot of time for preparation, the girls have trained whenever they

The history of rafting on the Vrbas began to be written in 2003, when a group of enthusiasts and lovers of the river Vrbas, also known as “Krajina beauty”, founded a rafting club in order to prevent the construction of hydroelectric power plants. Today, 19 years later, the Kanjon Rafting Club has grown into a

Less than 24 hours are left until the start of the first race on the World Championship in Rafting that is hosted by Bosnia and Herzegovina. This morning trainings were held in Head-to-Head discipline on the trail Bijeli buk. The teams that are participating in this discipline tried getting the best times and also tried

Ambassador of Japan Ito Makoto has visited the trail Bijeli buk during today’s training. He talked to the organisers and got introduced to the details about the World Championship. – I know that this is the second time the World Championship is held in Bosnia and Herzegovina. I wish luck to all the participants. I

A member of the Australian U23 team, Liam Stephen, says that the first impressions of the river Vrbas and Banja Luka are more than good and that he expects his team to win a gold medal. He emphasized that they had a long and difficult trip to Banja Luka, but that now, after a little

Among the teams that will compete in the open category at the World Rafting Championship is also the Romanian team, whose member Vlad does not expect to fight for a medal and believes that a placement among the top 10 would be a great success. – That would be a very good placement for us.

The Argentine national team will also take part at the World Rafting Championship, and a member of the men’s team in the open category, Sebastian, expects good results, although they arrived in Banja Luka the day before yesterday. – We are a mixed team from Mendoza and Alumine. Although we are not from the same