CANOEING
South African paddlers primed for world competition
The team will be in unknown territory for one of the races
The SA team for the ICF Canoe Marathon World Championships in Vila de Prado, Portugal, is looking forward to getting among the medals during the four days of competition starting on Thursday. Having hosted the event in 2017 at Camps Drift, Pietermaritzburg, many of that team will be returning in 2018 hoping to better their individual and collective performances after they finished second on the medals table behind pre-event favourites Hungary. The team will be in unknown territory for one of the races, with 10-time world champion Hank McGregor not contesting the senior men’s K1 race. That mantle has been shifted to McGregor’s K2 partner Andy Birkett, who finished behind the star at Camps Drift to claim the silver medal, and his former K2 partner and three-time K2 medallist Jasper Mocké, who is no stranger to K1 racing. In the men’s K2 race, the pairing of Birkett and McGregor will be a firm favourite. Joining them is the Capetonian crew of Stu Maclaren and Kenny Rice. Maclaren and R...
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