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KanFest 2025 Podium Results

Updated: Sep 23

KanFest 2025 was an incredible weekend of paddling, community, and competition! From rafts, pack rafts, kayaks, SUPs, whitewater canoes, and even inflatable unicorns, athletes brought their best to the Kananaskis River. A huge thank you to everyone who competed, volunteered, and cheered from the banks — you made this festival unforgettable.

Before we get to the podium, a huge thank you to our amazing sponsors and partners who make KanFest possible. If your looking for courses or gear, please consider spending your dollars with the companies that contribute to the whitewater community. They make KanFest and all the other festivals in Alberta possible. Title Sponsors:

  • AQ Outdoors - Providing courses, prizes and support. Year after year.

  • Able Demolition - Band, stage, and an immeasurable amount of work maintaining the upper kan

  • Raven RSM - for providing incredible river rescue and safety teams throughout the weekend

  • Alpacka Raft – for sponsoring the Alpacka Raft Race and supporting the packrafting community

Course Sponsors: Want to take your paddling to the next level? Check these guys first!


Meal Sponsors:


Prize Sponsors: see the full list of prizes here

Here are your 2025 champions and podium finishers (click here for closing ceremony photos):

Kayak


Kayak Cross All Men

🥇 Sven Perschmann

🥈 Shea Oliver

🥉 Braeden Taylor


Kayak Cross Advanced Women

🥇 Alyson Yip

🥈 Shilo Zhang

🥉 Sabrina Draude


Kayak Cross Beginner Women

🥇 Karla Handy

🥈 Alexandera Cameron

🥉 Monde Janzen


Kayak Freestyle Intermediate

🥇 Sven Perschmann

🥈 Michael Roberts

🥉 Shea Oliver


Kayak Freestyle Beginner

🥇 Linden Gillman

🥈 Lea Elkaim

🥉 Hayden Begg

Downriver Kayak Intermediate Men

🥇 Allen Yip - Yip Yap Kayaks

🥈 Sven Perschman

🥉 David Erasmus


Downriver Kayak Intermediate Ladies

🥇 Alyson Yip - Yip Yap Kayaks

🥈 Shilo Zhang

🥉 Sabrina Draude


Downriver Kayak Beginner Mixed

🥇 Lilian Pinel

🥈 Anna Chatterton

🥉 Porter (Rob, if you see us please send us your daughters name!) - Just Liquid


Kayak Cross Beginner Women

🥇 Karla Handy

🥈 Alexandera Cameron

🥉 Monde Janzen


SUP


SUP Cross

🥇 Chris Ryman - Endless Adventure

🥈 Martin O'Brien-Kelly

🥉 Kimberley Kenyon


SUP Freestyle

🥇 Ryan

🥈 Vanessa Phee

🥉 Kimberley Kenyon


SUP Downriver

🥇 Kim Kenyon

🥈 Martin O'Brien Kelley & Jackie Stefaniuk (Tied for 2nd)

🥈 Carlos Nunez


Ball Race


🥇 The Saggy Boofs

Caiman Paynter, Tom Rushforth, Shea Oliver, Braeden Taylor


🥈 Awesome S

Rob + Lochlan Porter - Just Liquid Sports, Alexandra Cameron, Thomas Cameron, John Duncan

🥉 I Need People

Gord Bunson - River City Repair, Ellis O, Bernard Ehalt, Elissa McColl


Pack Raft


Alpacka Raft Adventure Race - Thanks Alpacka for Championing this!

🥇 Alex Hawkins & Jean-Michel Voyer

🥈 Lisa Lee-Johnson & Theresa Bergner

🥉 Megan Green & Brook McGuire


Packraft Cross

🥇 Jeff Creamer

🥈 Garet Stimax - Alpacka Raft

🥉 Theresa Bergner


Raft


Raft Rodeo

🥇Kelly Beaton

🥈 Madison Ryman

🥉 Gord Bunston - Able Demolition


Raft Cross

🥇Gord Bunston - River City Repair & Chris Ryman - Endless Adventure

🥈Brad Laberge & Lisa Isley

🥉 Kelly Beaton & Alec Beaton


Inflatable Rodeo

🥇David Paynter

🥈Madison Ryman

🥉 Ed Meyer


Canoe


Downriver OC1

🥇 Béa Beaudoin-Masse

🥈 Clayton Williams - Green Tongue

🥉 Brad Laberge

OC1 Cross - Thanks Green Tongue for championing this!

🥇 Aiden Douglas

🥈 Lea Cordes

🥉 Clayton Williams - Green Tongue

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