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Welcome to the BDA Website
The British Dragon Boat Racing Association is the governing body of dragon boat racing in Great Britain. Dragon boat racing is one of the fastest growing and most exciting water sports you can take part in. The BDA is responsible for all aspects of the sport from community development up to managing British teams racing abroad. It runs a National League calendar for racing crews all round the country together with the National Championships held annually at the National Water Sports Centre.

Thames Make Their Mark on Finance
Saturday, 04 April 2009

Thames Dragon Boat Club are in the news and featured in the Financial Times. Follow the link below for the lowdown...

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/aa6707f6-1ce4-11de-977c-00144feabdc0.html
 
The NFL Meets the Dragon
Saturday, 04 April 2009

NFL linebacker Dhani Jones takes on the 2,000-year-old sport of dragon boat racing in Singapore. After a practice with members of Singapore's national team, Dhani gets an official seat with the American Dragons team in time for the country's biggest race event -- The Annual Singapore Dragon Boat Festival.

 See a preview of the show here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2boXs1EIkgI
 
Change of National League Venue
Thursday, 02 April 2009

Due to a clash of events the venue and date for the event on the weekend of 13-14th June has been changed. National League round 4 will now take place on Sunday 14th June at Stockton, Teesside.

The full league programme page will be updated accordingly.
 
All Change at the Top
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
The Executive Committee of the BDA was overhauled at the weekend with long standing chairman Mike Haslam moving upstairs to replace Andy Trotman as President and Jan Foster moving to the hot seat as our new Chairman. I'm sure we all wish Jan well and look forward to seeing her take the sport forward with her own ideas for the future. Sue Menzies will be supporting Jan as Vice Chairman. The committee also welcome new faces, Rosanna Lau as a director and Stuart Menzies and Jim Rossiter are co-opted to the committee.
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Updated entry form
Sunday, 08 March 2009
The National League entry form has been updated in line with the revised entry fees agreed at the recent Executive Committee Meeting. Please use this form for all future events and forward to the BDA secretary as well as informing the race organiser for the event. The National League coordinator can be contacted by email on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
 
Your Exec Working For You
Thursday, 26 February 2009

An extract from the 87th Executive Committee meeting can be found at the link below. The committee discussed the awards, BNTS appointments, coaching and other burning issues at the meeting in November. The committee intend to post extracts from future meetings.

ImageMinutes from the 8th Executive Committee meeting (150 KB)
 
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