You may be impressed by the exceptional results of our local pink dragons in Australia over the weekend. As a fitting end to a hugely successful season, the breast cancer survivor Cansurvive Dragonboat Team are proudly bringing home the silverware again.

They return tomorrow from a weekend competing against their sister teams at Kawana Lake on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland.

Hosted by Dragons Abreast Australia the national regatta drew breast cancer survivor teams from all over Australia.

Cansurvive from Wellington were the only NZ representative team.

They won both the 200m Grand Final and 200m last boat paddling events. This event has 8 boats starting for continuous racing over 200m, each leg one or two boats at the back of the field drop out, until only 2 are left to paddle the final 200m.

Cansurvive were also the first breast cancer survivor team across the line in the 2 kilometre race.

The team are most proud of the gains they have made over the season. Times on Lake Kawana were 2 seconds faster than their best ever.

The women won the 200 metres in just 55.5 seconds which Petone based Coach Jacob de Feijter says us another astounding achievement. A year ago they were pleased to be under 59 seconds over the same distance.

The team keep surprising him with their improvements every season.

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