# Canoeing: The old and the new are facing off in this year’s Berg River Marathon that kicked off in Paarl in the Boland this morning. Paddlers have to row for a gruelling 240-kilometres over four days to Velddrift on the West Coast. Two under-23s who performed well in the Western Cape river racing season, Neriyah Dill and Joshua Glyn-Cuthbert, are regarded as favourites in the women’s and the men’s race, respectively. Fourteen-time champion and defending champion, Hank McGregor, has not entered, which opens up the men’s race.
Canoeing: Young guns versus oldies at Berg River Marathon