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Dit was veral jammer dat Francois Meyer nie kon deelneem nie, want hy was in topvorm en een van die gunstelinge om die Groot Meesters-afdeling te wen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sy klubmaat Daantjie Malan het toe die eerste plek gevat, gevolg deur Dawid Malherbe in tweede plek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tydens die wedvaart het Carel Botha ook in die eerste skof onttrek, waarskynlik weens uitputting omdat hy Maandag 3 Julie die uitmergelende Freedom Challenge voltooi het. Hy het ook nadat hy die Comrades-marathon gehardloop het op sy bergfiets van Durban na Wellington gery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>N\u00e1 die eerste dag het Theuns Matthee ook siek geword en moes hy noodgedwonge onttrek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Op dag twee het Danie Brink onttrek nadat sy kano beskadig is deur sterk waterstrome wat sy kano meegesleur en geknak het terwyl hy besig was om \u2019n klubmaat in \u2019n moeilike situasie te help. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die derde skof van 74 km het ook sy tol ge\u00ebis toe Johan van Rooyen n\u00e1 30 km besluit het hy is nie reg om die orige 44 km af te l\u00ea nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Die jong Matie Dave Evans het uitstekend presteer deur in sy eerste Bergrivier-kano\u00admarathon 4de klaar te maak in \u2019n tyd van 17:21:33 \u2013 slegs 11 minute n\u00e1 die wenner Hank McGregor. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDit was \u2019n ongelooflike ervaring. Ek is tevrede met my uitslae, want dit was my eerste Bergrivier-kanomarathon. Ek het nie regtig die kanale geken nie, maar dit was wonderlik om Hank en Jeremy te volg, want hulle het regtig geweet wat hulle doen. Ek was bly om hul leiding te volg, sodat hulle my die pad kon wys. Wat vir my uitgestaan ??het, was die kameraadskap tussen almal. Daar is so \u2019n goeie gevoel oor die wedloop, almal moedig mekaar aan en dit voel of almal saam daarin is, want dit is beslis \u2019n baie uitdagende wedloop. Dit is een van die moeilikste dinge wat ek gedoen het,\u201d s\u00ea Evans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vanjaar se Bergrivier-kanomarathon het ook besondere deursettingsvermo\u00eb van Dawid Malherbe en Hanre Streicher vereis. Malherbe het sy hand op die tweede dag gesny en moes vier steke kry. Hy het egter deurgedruk en die volgende twee dae met \u2019n handskoen voltooi. 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