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Hong Kong World Club Crew Championships 2012

Brisbane River Dragons on top of the World The 100 strong paddler and supporters who formed the Brisbane River Dragon contingent to attend the IDBF World Club Crew Championships earlier this month went with one thing in mind and that was to do their best. Who would have believed we would return as the 6th top Club (on trophy count) in the World!!!!! BRD Competed in the following categorie... Read more...

Sanctuary Cove 2012

BRD particiapated today in the 7km Sanctuary Cove Prostate Cancer fundraiser event with a mixture of MBT and BRD sports paddlers. A strong tail wind and helpful tide made the 7km go really fast with a time around 32min. Edith Cooper did a great job in navigating along the course and no matter what wash was thrown at us she held her line. It was a fantastic effort by those who took the time to ... Read more...

Hong Kong Team Captains

Congratulations to our Hong Kong team Captains. They are:- MBT - Corina BradleyGrand Master Women - Emiliia McDonald, Denyse CornerGrand Master Men - Kira Dinsdale, Steve LincezMaster Women - Di Ouwerkerk, Erica HampMaster Men - Warren ParrishPremier Women - Nicole MurphyPremier Men - Tony Arthur Read more...

BRD Girls Win Gold Coast Cup

Saturday 14th April the gruelling Gold Coast Cup OC Change Over Race was held with our Open Women’s Crew coming in first to take the Gold Medal - awesome job girls!!! It was a long hard 40km race starting at Greenmount finishing at the Spit (Southport), with confusion at the start line, wind, big waves, rain and finally sunshine. Oh and I forgot the changes on the way. Congratulations to the... Read more...

Nationals Placings

For those of you who like to see all the results - here they are. As you can see, we had a lot of teams competing over the event, all helping to bring home the Australian Club Championship. Our strengths being in the 2000m events where we won gold in five (5) out of seven (7) events Premiers Women 200m - Bronze (12 teams)Premiers Women 500m - BronzePremiers Women 2000m - GoldPremiers Women (2)... Read more...

BRD - 2012 Australian Club Crew Champions

Day Four of Nationals saw BRD get into all six finals in the 200m 20's, and medal in five of the finals! An awesome result. This in turn, meant BRD accumulated enough points to bring home the Australian Club Crew Champions trophy. That's four in the last five years. What a club. Today saw Masters Women power home to take Gold, whilst Grand Masters Women took silver. Three teams got Bronze - Prem... Read more...

Nationals Updates - Triple Gold!!!

Last update Wednesday, 6.40pm Day three saw BRD power to 3 Golds and 2 silver. BRD dominated the 2000m events winning Masters Open and Women, by 24 sec and 10 secs respectively. Premier Women were the stand out crew of the day, winning Gold by a solid 7 secs. Our second Premier Women's crew finished 9th out of 15 teams, an excellent effort. Premier Open performed admirably, picking up 5th from a... Read more...

States 2012 Gold Rush

BRD continued their dominance of the Queensland State Championships, medalling across the board. The final medal count for BRD was 13 gold, 2 silvers and 3 bronze from 18 events. With 21 clubs attending from around the state in 20’s and 10’s, and with a gusty, wet and wild Sunday – it was a testing regatta. It was particularly pleasing to see the excellent efforts from first time attendee... Read more...

Lite n' Easy Corporate Regatta

On Sunday 4 March, 2012, BRD hosted an Outrigger Corporate regatta for Lite n' Easy. The day started early with collection and transportation of tents and gear from Colmslie to Hamilton plus ferrying the canoes across the river. Lite n' Easy had nine teams of five paddlers competing against each other in Outrigger canoes across the river at Northshore Riverside park (a great venue).The day went re... Read more...

ESP staff race into Chinese New Year

Twenty-two DERM, DEEDI and CSIRO staff—known as the Ecosciences Precinct Dragons—took part in the 2012 Chinese New Year Corporate Dragon Boat Regatta held at South Bank on Saturday 11 February 2012. Competing against 21 corporate teams, the Ecosciences Precinct Dragons finished in 11th place. Team member and DERM Assistant Director-General Christine Williams said the race provided the opport... Read more...