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The final day is here! It’s Long Distance Sunday, and after some major upsets in sprints and technicals already, the question is – will we see more upsets, or will the favourites finally take their crowns?
It was the biggest drama at last year’s worlds in Sarasota, and the best spectating of the weekend. It’s the technical. In the women's race, Duna Gordillo of Spain is defending her world title, but it won't be easy. Mariecarmen Rivera (Puerto Rico) has had a phenomenally good season, and she'll
Will Andrey Kraytor finally break the 20 km/h threshold? Will the surprise of 2024, Katniss Paris, repeat her victory on the world stage? 2025 SUP Worlds are here, and these are all the favourites to win the sprints. Stay tuned for more on the technical and long distance races.
It was the second ever edition of the Thames 200 Ultra, where paddlers race the entire 200 km length of the navigable, non-tidal Thames River from Lechlade to Teddington. Read about why not everyone made it to the end, and watch the race highlights in just 8 minutes on YouTube.
England’s most iconic ultra paddling race has finally created an official category for SUPs. After SUP pioneers Emily King and Paddy McCormack successfully finished the 4 day, 120 mile ultra in April as a trial, the event announced this week that 2026 will mark the first year with an official SUP
This weekend, an unassuming reservoir in England will play host to a brand new SUP racing format. From the diabolical mind of race director Greg Wingo who brought you 49+ hours of pain in Last Paddler Standing, and the passionate ultra paddling visionary Cassie Salter who founded the popular Race to
This weekend’s national championships in Great Britain are shaping up to have some high level racing as the UK’s top athletes look to win national titles and qualify for this year’s world championships in Abu Dhabi and…
At the end of 5 weekends of back-to-back racing for many of the world’s best SUP racers, the spring season’s leaders Mariecarmen Rivera (Puerto Rico) and Shuri “Shrimpy” Araki (Japan) solidified their statuses as #1 with golds in the Barcelona World SUP Fest long distance race. But these two
Between the ICF World Cups, the EuroTour, and the newly announced European SUP League, it’s been near impossible for even the biggest SUP racing fans to keep track of all the action this spring. And for the racers themselves, the questions have been: which races are worth competing in? How man
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