Jet-setting
Danish paddler Susan Lützner will tick another South African canoeing race off
her bucket list when she takes on the Fish River Canoe
Marathon on October 7 and 8 in a K3 with her Dusi partner Loveday Zondi and Rod Penaluna.
The
Fish River Canoe Marathon will start near Hofmeyr on the Grassridge Dam and end
in Cradock.
Lützner started paddling late in life and her new passion has seen her recently
complete the Sella Descent in Spain before returning home to contest the
European marathon championships.
It was while racing the Berg River Canoe Marathon that she struck up a
friendship with Gauteng-based paddler Loveday Zondi, a mutual admiration that
led to them completing the three-day MyLife Dusi Canoe Marathon together.
Lützner quickly became aware that the Fish Marathon was held in very high
regard in South African paddling circles and added it to the list of iconic
global paddling events she wanted to take part in.
“I have never paddled a K3 before so I am very excited,” said Lützner.
“I know that I will be in very safe hands.”
Penaluna is a veteran of 23 Fish Marathons and will anchor the K3 journey down
the 82 kilometres of irrigation water that makes up the Fish Marathon.
Lützner will meet up with Zondi at the Ponte de Lima in Portugal where they
will race the Masters Cup Marathon races together, and will also race the
Liffey Descent in Ireland alongside a number of familiar ex-pat South African
like Swedish-based Mark Ussher.
The Fish Marathon annually attracts the world’s biggest gathering of the unique
three-seater craft that originated in South Africa, and provide a popular,
social way for experienced paddlers to introduce newcomers to the Fish
Marathon.
For more information visit www.fishmarathon.org.za.
