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Kozhikode is gearing up to big the 12th variation of the Malabar River Festival, Asia’s largest white-water kayaking competition, connected the Chalipuzha and Iruvanjippuzha rivers, tributaries of the Chaliyar. The four-day event, scheduled from July 30 to August 2, is expected to pull kayakers and escapade enthusiasts from crossed the world.
The event, also 1 of India’s largest escapade sports festivals, is being organised nether the aegis of the Kerala Tourism section successful collaboration with the Kerala Adventure Tourism Promotion Society (KATPS), District Tourism Promotion Council (DTPC), and Local Self-Government institutions. Organisers said method enactment would beryllium provided by the Indian Kayaking and Canoeing Association (IKCA).
Set against the rugged backdrop of the Malabar highlands, the festival volition alteration the stream stretches successful Kodenchery and Thiruvambady grama panchayats into a venue for competitory white-water kayaking, attracting elite paddlers and escapade sports enthusiasts to the region.
Surrounded by dense forests and dotted with stone formations, the challenging people offers demanding stream conditions. With the southwest monsoon astatine its peak, participants volition navigate fast-flowing currents, turbulent rapids, steep drops and analyzable h2o features, making the contention a existent trial of skill, precision and endurance.
The main contention events see Kayak Slalom, Boater Cross, Down River Race and Super Final Extreme Race. The antheral champion volition beryllium awarded the rubric of ‘Rapid Raja’ portion the pistillate champion volition person the rubric of ‘Rapid Rani’.
According to organisers, the festival is expected to diagnostic white-water kayakers from astir 20 countries, arsenic good arsenic much than 100 participants from crossed India. The 2025 variation witnessed the information of 18 planetary athletes and astir 85 Indian kayakers.
Thiruvambady MLA C.K. Kasim said a bid of pre-event programmes would beryllium organised to guarantee wider nationalist information and physique momentum for the festival.
Mr. Kasim said the venues and contention events had been finalised. “Efforts volition present absorption connected ensuring the information of nationalist and planetary athletes, undertaking extended promotional campaigns, mobilising funds, coordinating with assorted authorities departments and section bodies, and strengthening security, catastrophe absorption and rescue arrangements,” the MLA added.
