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Cal Dragons (or Cal Dragon Boat) is a competitive student-run dragon boat team founded in 1998 at the University of California, Berkeley. Cal Dragons regularly compete in local, national, and international dragon boat events. They recruit prospective paddlers twice each year, typically only accepting 10% of the many students who try out for the ...
Roughly 20 clubs and 60 teams use Flushing Bay — including many members who compete for Team USA. Dragon boating is not an official Olympic sport — at least yet — but it was demonstrated ...
The USDBF is divided into four regions: Pacific, Midwest, Southeastern, and Eastern regions. Each region is governed by its own regional body; these governing bodies are the Pacific Dragon Boat Association of the West Coast (PDBA), the American Dragon Boat Association of the Mid-West (ADBA), the Southeastern Regional Dragon Boat Association (SRDBA), and the Eastern Regional Dragon Boat ...
Teams participating in all three mixed 10-seater races are eligible to qualify for the 2025 World Games in Chengdu, China. There are 12 quota places, with ten places for contestation. The top teams with the highest overall points across will qualify. [28] [29] Thailand and Indonesia are already qualified via the ICF Dragon Boat World Cup in ...
The International Dragon Boat Federation (Chinese: 國際龍舟聯合會) is the international governing body for the sport of dragon boat racing. IDBF was founded in Hong Kong on June 24, 1991 by Australia , China , Taiwan , Great Britain , Hong Kong , Indonesia , Italy , Malaysia , Norway , the Philippines , Singapore , and the United States ...
The International Dragon Boat Federation defines a dragon boat, within competition regulations, to be: "a long displacement boat of an open design, that is based upon a rib-less carvel form of hull construction, with the following distinguishing characteristics; no stem, hard chine bilge; W in cross section, minimum freeboard, punt-like entry and exit; rocketed keel that is set back from the ...
The two-day event, organised by Hong Kong's tourism board and the Hong Kong China Dragon Boat Association, drew more than 4,000 paddlers from 160 teams including from the Chinese mainland, Taiwan ...
In addition to providing audiences with traditional Chinese foods and performances, the festival, now in its 18th year, hosts over 150 dragon boat teams from across North America, making it one of the largest dragon boat festivals in the United States. Depending on the competitive division, teams compete for cash prizes or airline tickets.