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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
Paolo Marconi is one of the “original” stand up paddleboard racers. The first year he raced internationally, 2011, was the year that SUP Racer was founded. That’s fourteen years of top level SUP racing. So when it comes to talking about what it means to be a stand up paddleboard ra
2025 became the first year that the iconic Devizes to Westminster canoe race finally invited stand up paddleboarders to race. This nearly 125 mile race has been running for canoes and kayaks since 1948, but the race organisers have recently recognised that it's time for the race to evolve.
After a few too many why-is-their-board-between-my-legs moments and controversial DQs during the technical racing at ICF worlds in November, a new rule may bring clarity to who has right of way at buoy turns.
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