The Ñuble River Rafting Club in San Fabián de Alico was the star of an impressive and historic performance at the recent 2024 Pan American Rafting Championship, held in the white waters of the Trancura River in Pucón, where nearly 300 gathered representative of 40 teams from 20 countries. .
In the mixed category he won third place in the downstream (an 8 km race along the Trancura River) and fourth overall, competing with the team of the current champion, Brazil, and second place, Argentina.
The team consisted of Benjamin Benavides, Claudino San Martín, Fernanda González, Corina Quiñones and Nazaret Zapata.
In the rafting category, Ñuble Rafting qualified with two teams: one finished fifth and the other third, among seven representatives. This team consisted of Claudino San Martín, Benjamin Benavides, John Marín, José Herrera and Luciano González.
In the men’s division, the Ñuble team, like Chile 2, finished in 18th place among 24 competing teams.
A great achievement
“As the Ńuble River sports club in San Fabián, we compete with a men’s team, a mixed team and two para-rafting teams, because in the National in September we put this type of Pan American in these categories. It was a very high Pan American event that left very good results for Club Deportivo Ñuble River, which represented Chile. Mentioning that the World Cup will be in Argentina in 2025, in San Carlos de Bariloche and that it has more than 50 confirmed countries,” said Claudino San Martín, a member of the team that stood on the Pan American podium.
The international competition brought together athletes from countries such as Brazil, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Costa Rica, Canada, the United States, Italy, Venezuela, Russia and Japan, who tested the skill, coordination and coordination for three days. skill on the Trancura River, after living the experience of having participated worldwide in the most important rafting competitions.
Brazil and Argentina were the big winners and they climbed to the podium of the first places in different categories, such as Sprint, Down River, Slalom and RX.
