The couple of the Team Best 4 Kayak Centre Hank McGregor and Grant van der Walt were the winners last weekend at the Umkomaas River Marathon, in South Africa. They dominated the race from start to end, despite a paddle broken by van der Walt on day 1. Nevertheless, all the rest contestants suffered the tough conditions in this river, although this year it was competed in low water and the rapids were not so scary as they use to be... but still not easy to shoot, as stones substituted the big waves as the main obstacles in the paddlers way.
On day 1, the young Gavin Shuter and his partner for this race, the czech Jakub Adam, managed to arrive in second place only two minutes behind the leaders, after a superb descent. In the fight for the third place, Brandon van der Walt and the surfski specialist Matthew Bouman managed to leave off the podium the Dusi winners, Andrew Birkett and Jason Graham.
