Multiple Fish River Canoe Marathon winner Hank McGregor and his partner Hamish Lovemore will be in a race against time to get to this year’s race from 8-9 October after they return from the Marathon World Championships in Romania.
Pre-race favourite trio of Hank McGregor, Andy Birkett and Hamish Lovemore raced away on the 56km first stage of the 2021 Berg River Canoe Marathon.
Hamish Lovemore completed a breath-taking clean-sweep of gold medals when he and partner Hank McGregor successfully defended their national senior men’s K2 marathon canoeing title.
Hamish Lovemore stunned the national marathon championship at Zandvlei on Saturday by upstaging former world champions Andy Birkett and Hank McGregor.