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Sponsors:
CAP Engineering and CTFN
Age: 47 previous races: 2015,2016,2017,2019
Sex: F
From: carcross, YT, Canada
YRQ 2015, 2016,2018, 2019river guideCanoe Leader for CTFN
take the record this year
Age: previous races: 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
Sex: M
From: whitehorse, Canada
Age: previous races: 2015,2016,2017,2019
From: Carcross, YT, Canada
Age: 16
Age: 24
Age:
From: Haines Jct, YT, Canada
Age: 17
From: Old Crow, YT, Canada
Charities:
Yukon Cancer Care Fund
Age: 57 previous races: 2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
From: Whitehorse, YT, Canada
YRQ 2014 scratched in CarmacksYRQ 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 Finished in Dawson
Finish in under 50 hours with a healthy happy team. Raise awareness and funds for the Yukon Cancer Care Fund. Hoping to hit $100,000 in total funds raised since the team started in 2016.
Raise awareness and funds for the Yukon Cancer Care Fund. Hoping to hit $100,000 in total funds raised since the team started in 2016!
Age: 60 previous races: 2016,2017,2018,2019,2022
This will be my 6th YRQ race.
Have a fun race and (hopefully!?) hit the $100,000 mark on fund raising for the Yukoners Cancer Care Fund!
Age: 50 previous races: 2019,2022
2 YRQ finishes1 YRQ scratch before Carmacks
Dawson in under 50 hrs!
To race and laugh with like minded hockey playing women - raise money for and awareness of the Yukoners’ Cancer Care Fund.
Age: 59 previous races: 2019,2022
2 YRQ finishes with Stix Together
Dawson in 50 hrs!!
Paddle hard and finish well with a group of amazing women! To raise money for and awareness of the Yukoners’ Cancer Care Fund.
Age: 41 previous races: 2019,2022
This will be my 3rd timing doing the YRQ
To raise money for the Yukoners Cancer Care Fund, to have fun and make it to Dawson in under 50hr.
Age: 47 previous races: 2022
YRQ 2022
Make it through Five Fingers with my team of all-star women! Laugh through the training season as much as I did last year.
Who could resist this team of fabulous ladies?!
New to the race, but found so much joy as a training sub for Stix Together in past years that I jumped on the chance to join the crew for 2023!
Enjoy the training and the teamwork, paddle hard all the way to Dawson.
Age: 49
First time participating in this event.
To finish in 50 hrs, make friends and have fun while raising money for our Cancer care foundation
Age: 61 previous races: 2012,2015,2017
From: Penticton,, BC, Canada
YRQ 2012, 2015, 2017.Adventure races and other long events.
Finish with a smile.
My main reason is to hang out with wonderful, inspiring people in a wonderful and inspiring place.
Age: 60
From: Wallace, MI, United States
YRQ 2015, 2017
Finish with a smile and no chaffing.
Spend time with great people.
Age: previous races: 2015,2017
From: Newark, CA, United States
YQR 2015, 2017
Finish
From: Alameda, CA, United States
Spend time with great people
Age: 40
From: Lena, WI, United States
Ausable Canoe MarathonMarji Gesick MTB raceCrusher MTB racePolar Roll MTB race
Help the team as much as I possibly can.
Kathy made me do it.
Age: 65
From: San Diego, CA, United States
Outrigger ocean racing
Paddle with my friends on a grand adventure
Honored to be invited
14 YRQ's.
Staying upright and enjoy getting to Dawson
Age: previous races: 2005,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018
Jim says we've done 14 YRQ's. Whatever!!!
Enjoy the paddle with great team members through the best and most beautiful Territory in the world.
To have one more go at it.
Age: 99 previous races: 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
Some YRQs with great people
Paddle, Paddle, Paddle, drink, eat, scream, laugh, cry, sing, Jim says “Hut!”, switch, Repeat… and Dawson, here we come!
For Jim’s Happy 80th!For Linda Rapp, Ingrid Wilcox and Michelle Wagner.For feeling pains on my shoulders, the rock faces, the midnight sun, the little people at the shore, the voices from the wilderness…
Age: previous races: 2016,2017,2018,2019
YRQs
start strong, finish strong, and then there's the middle
can't help it. You do it once and then it just beckons you back again and again and again and again and . . .
Age: 98 previous races: 2016,2018,2019
A few YRQ races
Have another amazing race with team T'salvit.
Age: previous races: 2006
1 YRQ, 1 Canadian Marathon Canoe Championship, 3 Outrigger Canoe World Championships, 5 Dragonboat World Championships, 2 long distance International Outrigger Canoe races. 6 wilderness rivers in the Yukon.
To finish strong with a smile on my face.
To see if this old girl still has it going on.
Age: previous races: 2011,2018
A couple of previous YRQs.
To stay awake the ENTIRE time. And, to enjoy the experience as a first time voyageur paddler.
Age: 25
From: South Coogee, NSW, Australia
Age: 26
From: High Range, NSW, Australia
From: Bondi Beach, NSW, Australia
From: Mosman, NSW, Australia
From: Manly, NSW, Australia
Victoria Gold Corp
From: Kamloops, BC, Canada
Multi-day backcountry canoe trips in Nova Scotia, British Columbia
Complete the race within time limits.
Age: 39
From: Surrey, BC, Canada
Backpacking, camping, hiking, geology exploration
Finish and have fun
Age: 30
From: Revelstoke, BC, Canada
Multi-day backcountry canoe trips in British Columbia, Quebec, Ontario
Ensuring everyone has fun.
From: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Flat and white water canoe wilderness trip experience in Northern ontairo up to month long remote canoe trips and white water experience up to class (III) rapids.
To finish within the allotted time
Age: 32
No paddling races. Other Yukon races in relay setup.
Not get injured/ be prepared so I enjoy it.
Age: 36
Multi-day backcountry canoe trips in British Columbia
Age: 54
From: Calgary, AB, Canada
Raced tandem canoe in Alberta Summer Games.
Finish the race and be a strong member of the team.
See the river that carried the prospectors North during the gold rush.
Backcountry canoe trips in Ontario.
Finish the Race.
Saying yes before really thinking it through.
Age: previous races: 2004,2005,2006,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2017,2018,2019,2022
13 YRQ
Get to Dawson before the bars close Saturday night.
Love the race, love the river
Age: previous races: 2017,2018,2019,2022
TBA
Enjoy every moment with the greatest people! :)
Age: previous races: 2003,2006,2007,2008,2009,2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2022
From: Toronto, ON, Canada
Previous YRQs
Enjoy the river, wildlife and friends.
Age: previous races: 2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
From: Wynndel, BC, Canada
Lots!
To have fun out on the river.
Age: previous races: 2005,2017
From: Victoria, BC, Canada
2 riverquests and 2 adventure races
To do as well as we can, have some fun and avoid swimming
Tunde
Age: previous races: 2022
Completed the 1/2 in 2022
Have fun with a great group of women
Bib Sponsor:
From: Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada
Years of backcountry paddling growing up in Ontario and BC, mountaineering, backpacking, etc.
Finish strong! Be happy!
Part of a cycling and paddling journey from Victoria to Tuktoyaktuk!
40 years of backcountry paddling, hiking, mountaineering, skiing… any way to get out into the wilderness.
Finish strong! Have fun!
Part of a cycling and paddling journey from Victoria to Tuktoyaktuk.
Years of backcountry paddling, hiking, mountaineering, skiing etc.
Finish and have fun!
From: SHREWSBURY, United Kingdom
NO
TO FINISH
Sex:
From: POWYS, United Kingdom
From: FT MCMURRAY, AB, Canada
From: WEST MIDLANDS, United Kingdom
Age: 35
From: Urbana, IL, United States
Canoeing and Kayaking throughout Wisconsin and the Boundary Waters of Northern Minnesota
To have fun and enjoy the ultimate sufferfest!
Age: 31
From: Rapid City, SD, United States
Spending my free time exploring the outdoors on back country trips and paddling throughout northern California
To push myself and explore the beauty of the Yukon Territory
From: Kaneohe, HI, United States
Active member of a competitive Hawaiian outrigger canoe club
Race in an environment far different than the Pacific Ocean along the coast of Hawaii
Age: 34
From: Monona, WI, United States
Comfortable canoeing class 3 rapids. Endurance athlete (Ironman, SwimRun, marathon).Commuted to work via kayak for years.
Experience an endorphin high through an Arctic summer. Avoid crippling blisters.
Masochism. And friendship.
Age: 53
From: Roeselare, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium | België | Belgique | Belgien
YRQ 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019, 2022
Finish <50 hours
Age: 69 previous races: 2014,2016,2018
From: Essen, Antwerpen, Belgium | België | Belgique | Belgien
YRQ 2014, YRQ 2016, YRQ 2018, YRQ 2020
Want to win in our category:).
Want to win the YRQ one's:), just to have a nice race and meet our friends in the Yukon:).
From: Sherburne, NY, United States
4 Previous YRQ's1 Previous Yukon 100038 ADK 90 Mile Canoe Classic 38 General Clinton Canoe 70 Mile Race2 AuSable 120 Mile canoe race 1 DW Canoe 125 Mile race 15 Cannonball 90 mile Canoe events40 years of local Canoe races
Finishing Strong, Hard, Fast, and First in our teams category.
Challenges of endurance racing, the beauty of the Yukon, and team support.
Age: previous races: 2012,2016,2018,2022
From: Marke, Belgium | België | Belgique | Belgien
4 x YRQ
Finish <50 h
Extensive outdoor winter experience
Try to be a competitive team
From: Cochrane, AB, Canada
Enjoys long walks on the beach, not too fond of getting hit in the head
From: calgary, AB, Canada
Finds the whole sports scene to be just "aces"
Just to finish
Age: 43
From: Golden lake, ON, Canada
YRQ 2018-2019-2022
Keep the round side down
Prospect for the Big River Club
Age: 48
From: Golden Lake, ON, Canada
YRQ 2018-2019
Paddle with my amazing husband.
I don't understand the question?
Listers Motor Sports
Age: 35 previous races: 2016,2017,2018,2019,2022
From: Whitehorse, Canada
Age: 36 previous races: 2016,2017,2019,2022
Age: 46 previous races: 2011,2016,2018,2022
YRQ 2011, 2016, 2018, Race to the Klondyke 2021 and YRQ 300 in 2022.
Be faster than the last time.
Age: 38 previous races: 2018
YRQ 2018
To do my best and smile at the end
Northwestelnwtel.ca
Age: 62 previous races: 2018,2019,2022
2018,2019 & 2022 YRQ
The aim will be downriver!
There was no option not to... I'm hooked!
.
Age: 58 previous races: 2019,2022
From: Arnprior, ON, Canada
YRQ 2019, 2021 and others
To stay dry and have in depth conversations with my teammate about sex, money, politics and religion.
I find it's a good way to wind down after the drive from Ottawa.
From: Huntsville, Canada
Age: 54 previous races: 2018
From: Maple Grove, MN, United States
Yukon River Quest 2018Ausable River Canoe Marathon 3xGeneral Clinton Canoe Marathon 2xUSCA NationalsLocal racesWilderness canoe tripsBack country huntingHorse pack trips
A positive, challenging, outdoor adventure with my wife.
Personal challengeTeam challengeOutdoor adventure
Age: 45 previous races: 2018
- YRQ 2018- Several completions of Triple Crown of Canoe Racing races: General Clinton, AuSable, Classique- Current record for through-paddling the Northern Forest Canoe Trail. - Wilderness canoe tripping.- Lots of local Midwest canoe and ski races.
Enjoy another challenging outdoor adventure with my husband!
We know we can do it. Keeps us sane :)
NorthwestelRohl
Age: 66 previous races: 2012,2014,2015,2016,2018,2019
From: Carp, ON, Canada
YRQsMuskoka RaceAdventure RacesMarathons
Reconnect with racers I have met over the years. Meet new competitors. Paddle another great race to Dawson
Age: 60 previous races: 2018,2019
YRQ 2018 & 2019Carmacks to Dawson River Trip 2020
Paddle hard and leave nothing in the tank
Great Race organized by Great People on a Great River
From: Plainwell, MI, United States
Campus to Coast 160 mile race.
Finish in 55 hours
From: Plainwell, MI, MI, United States
2016 YRQ.2018 MR340
Mountain Mikes Health Food StoreAlvin and Judy Holland
Age: 61 previous races: 2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
From: Moyie Springs, ID, United States
Yukon 1000 2022Great Alabama 650 2020Yukon River Quest 2014,2015,20162017,2018,2019.
Have fun. Enjoy the camaraderie on the river. Finish.
Age: 62 previous races: 2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019
Yukon 1000 2022Great Alabama 650 2020Yukon River Quest 2014-2019
Have fun. Enjoy the river and finish.
Age: 55 previous races: 2013,2015,2017,2019
From: Christchurch, New Zealand | Aotearoa
A number of YRQs - some successful, some not so.
Go faster, deliver on our potential as a team. See if we have got any better over 10 years - or just got older.
Greg: Hey, let’s go back to the Yukon next year.Me: Nup, no way. We said that was it last time.Greg: It’ll be the 10-year anniversary of when this weird obsession started for us.Me: Hmmm, compelling argument. Ok, let’s go.
Age: 53 previous races: 2013,2017,2019
From: Martinborough, New Zealand | Aotearoa
A few YRQs
what he said
It's a very addictive race and always leaves you feeling like there's plenty of room for improvement, which in my case there is!
Canoeing and backpacking thoughout the Yukon.
Finish the race and have fun.
Spending weekends and freetime canoeing and hiking in the Yukon backcountry.
Finish the race and enjoy the scenery.
Age: 53 previous races: 2016
No racing, but many wilderness rivers in Ontario, Saskatchewan, the North-west Territories and Nunavut. Guide in Algonquin Park and on the Nahanni.
To finish.
Spend quality time with my daughter. And self-flagellation!
Age: 18
From: Holywood, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
No racing, but wilderness rivers in Ontario and Saskatchewan.
Spend time with my Dad. Final hurrah before starting university.
No racing experience, lots of paddling and wilderness experience.
Paddle under 50 hours
The Challenge
From: coldstream, BC, Canada
No paddle racing experience, lots of wilderness experience
finish under 50 hours
The challenge
Age: 29
From: La Ronge, SK, Canada
Voyageur canoe race experience from 2010 canoe quest in Sask.Yearly 2 week canoe trips.
Complete it.
Challenging ourselves.
Yearly 2 week canoe trips. Local Sask canoe racing experience.
The challenge of it!
From: Glossodia, NSW, Australia
Canoe tripping in Ontario and river running in Costa Rica through to Australia. Working in the Outdoor Industry for 20+ years
Survive and have fun
Age: 45
From: New Liskeard, ON, Canada
Lots of flatwater wilderness tripping in Northern Ontario.
Finish and have fun.
From: Wanaka, Central Otago, New Zealand | Aotearoa
Yukon 1000 2022
Another Yukon summer
Age: 64
From: Tarras, Central Otago, New Zealand | Aotearoa
Another Yukon Summer
Age: 28 previous races: 2022
From: Davis, CA, United States
YRQ 22 Finisher, Swift Water Rescue Certified (Sierra Rescue), Avid Kayaker
Complete and beat personal record
Loved YRQ 22, trying to join the 7 club
From: Wadsworth, OH, United States
Marine, Avid Sea Kayaker, YRQ Support Crew Member in 2022
Complete YRQ (entered in 2022 but had to withdraw)
Many kayak trips growing up, avid backpacker and wilderness camper, outdoor rock climbing.
To finishPush personal boundaries and limitsSee the Yukon
Recently got into kayaking, avid backpacker and wilderness camper, and outdoor rock climbing.
To finish the raceTo push human limitsTo come out with a strengthened relationship and a special bond with Madison my wife.
Madison's dream to finish this race
Age: 50
Various Northern Sask lake/river trips (including Churchill lake 45km)Alberta rivers - Bow, n. Saskatchewan, Red Deer, s Saskatchewan, Athabasca BC - Kootenay Also - kayak 8 days Tofino unguided. 6 days Haida Gawai (guided)Some whitewater kayak and raft guide experience (Ottawa area)9 years tree planting
Finish safely Have funFind myself (kidding!)
Love the wilderness and paddling. See some friends in Dawson city.
30 years lake and river paddling northern Sask, including 7 day trips (all unguided)
To finishWant to see Dawson City!Meet cool new people
As above - also, I live adventure.
Age: 59 previous races: 2015,2017,2018,2019,2022
YRQsMRXsK2OsGeneral Clintons.....
Enjoy the experience....and finish sub 45 hours.
It's definitely a habit
Age: 47 previous races: 2019
From: Cantley, QC, Canada
erwer
werwe
From fjords to forest lakes paddle every type of water I can get a boat into.
To not turn Yukon River Quest into a swim race.
Because it was there.
2022 training on the Sella river
Age: 59 previous races: 2022
From: Ottawa, ON, Canada
YRQ 2022Marathons, ultrasRegattasNahanni River
Keep the hip flexors working all the way to Dawson
I want to see if the fluffy cloud dogs and cliff art were hallucinations or real. They sure looked real in 2022.
several marathons, lots of outdoors experience
push it to the limit
train insane or remain the same!
Airboard
Age: 42 previous races: 2022
From: Dietlikon, ZH, Switzerland | Schweiz | Suisse | Svizzera | Svizra
2022 Finished Yukon River Quest on 4th place and as fastest Inflatable SUP.2021 Paddled more than 2300km on Rivers for YRQ training.2020 Paddled more than 1600km on stagnant Water for YRQ training2019 Finisher of 11-City-SUP Race Holland, 220km2018 Visiting the YRQ and made a documentary video about the Paddleboarders2016 Lake Labarge to Carmacks2014 one of the first SUP down the Yukon River from Carmacks to Dawson
Giving my support team a second chance to arrive at the finish line on time.***Arriving healthy in Dawson City before the last show at Diamond Gerties starts ;-)
Dakwakada Capital InvestmentsNortherm Windows & Doors
Age: 40 previous races: 2022
YRQ Half Race 2022
Finish the full Quest
From: Sandbach, Cheshire, United Kingdom
Paddled for several years but never raced.Competant in the wilderness after mutliday solo kayak and group cycle trips.
To fullfill a 12 year dream of competing in and completing the Yukon River Quest.
Memento Mori; a philosophical phrase used as my team name and life motto. A constant reminder that we all must one day die. However, this is not a morbid reason for entering the race, instead reminding myself to postpone nothing and really live the life I have been given to the full. Not taking anything for granted, living for those we have sadly lost, whilst striving to achieve my absolute potential.I have a real passion for competing in multiple sports, always striving to push personal physical and mental boundaries. I feel this race will test me to the full surrounded by amazing like minded individuals with lifelong friendships to be made.
Age: 67 previous races: 2018,2019,2022
From: Mississauga, ON, Canada
YRQ
See Dawson by boat
Age: 69 previous races: 2019,2022
From: Delta, BC, Canada
YRQ 2019 and 2022
To paddle my best race possible
The Yukon river and the Yukon people
Age: 41 previous races: 2022
2022 YRQ7 years guiding in the arctic
Faster than Last Year!!
2019 YRQ race, finished
Finish 2 hours earlier
It is a challenge
From: Montréal, QC, Canada
Numerous kayak trips in Quebec and Ontario2,234 kms, 3-months solo hiking trek accross Europe on the Camino de Santiago in 2018
Finishing
Age: 68 previous races: 2017,2018,2019,2022
From: Chelsea, QC, Canada
3x YRQ
Age: 37
From: Granby, MO, United States
Grew up on lakes, rivers and in the country/wilderness. Just getting started in actual endurance kayak racing.
Finish the race and make my family proud.
Inspire my kids to do adventurous things and enjoy the outdoors and challenges.
Age: 0 previous races: 2014,2017,2018,2019
From: Port Townsend, WA, United States
Yukon River Quests 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019
To make it to the river! To train!To have a wonderful experience with friends, the river, the place and my awesome crew!
Because it is hands down one of the best experiences of my life.
Age: 61
From: Kampen, Overijssel, Netherlands | Nederland
My SUP experiences are: 7 times sup11city (3 times as a supcleaner), SupX Berlin, Dordogne Integrale, Great Glen and many suptrips in my country and 10 otherhttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hugo+vernhout Other long distance sports: 3 times the nonstop support crew for Göran Gustavsson during his nonstop sup11city, once on a kickbike, once on a bike and once on an elliptigo.Wilderness: Working for the US National Forest Service in the Chippewa National Forest and on a portage crew in the Boundary Water Canoe Area in Minnesota as part of my study forestry, camping trips.
Finish on time, have fun and enjoy the scenery
I want to join because for me this is the ultimate challenge on SUP. After Bart de Zwart (who I know since he was a baby) told me I should and more importantly could do this and Göran Gustavssen and Janneke Smits-van Leeuwen and Ella Oesterholt told me too, I decided to go for it.
Age: 46
Solo Kayak explorations in the southern gulf islands, BC lakes and backcountry camping. Former K1 racer in sprint and marathon.
Finish the race.
Push my personal limit of Type II fun.
Age: 64 previous races: 2022
Multiple multi day kayak trips including Desolation Sound and the Broken Island group, both on Vancouver Island. Last Years epic YRQ!
To finish in under 60 hours. .. Okay, maybe 64..?
The YQR has been on the margins of the bucket list for a few years, since about 2014 when we were up in Yukon for a vacation. Watched part of the race, and went for a little paddle. Love being out and about and on the water.
Age: 66 previous races: 2022
From: Invermere, BC, Canada
Not a racer. Paddled thousands of kilometers through Canadian North on sometimes months long self supported trips
To live the dream
Age: 59 previous races: 2013,2014,2015,2016,2017,2018,2019,2022
Few YRQFew MR340Couple Muskoka XOne SDKC
A little Faster
Last year was to get back to finishing, this year push it a little harder.
Yster SUPKajaktiv ABSpectrum SportGarmin
From: Halmstad, Halland, Sweden | Sverige
SUP11CityTour 7 tema.YukonRiverQuest 2022
top 3 in SUP
Age: 60 previous races: 2019,2022
From: Cottbus, Brandenburg, Germany | Deutschland
I love to be in the nature and to life an active lifestyle. Running, hiking as well as paddling are my passions which I share with my wonderful wife Mandy who was also in some YRQ races. We both took part in a lot of national and international Dragonboat competitions with different teams in the last years. In 2019 I finished the YRQ in the Voyageur class, were I also was the team captain. One year later I successfully completed the virtual YRQ.In 2022 I took part in the YRQ but didn't finish.
Finish the race in less than 55 hours!
By participating in the 2019 YRQ, I got to know the territory and the people of the Yukon and knew I had to come back to complete the race in a single kayak. My training started at the end of 2019 and was supposed to end with the race in 2020. But due to the repeated cancellations of 2020 and 2021 I had to wait until 2022, but this race ended in a DNF. So I will be back in this year to fulfill my dream of finishing this epic race.
https://lifeline-aotearoa.grassrootz.com/fundraise-for-lifeline/wing
From: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand | Aotearoa
- 100km Tarawera running ultramarathon- 380km K4 Cycle Challenge- 243km Coast to Coast Multisport Challenge- 225km Ironman New Zealand- 160km The James Mountain Man Multisport Race- 2000km Bikepacking South Island of New Zealand- Plus numerous multiple days hiking/backpacking missions- I am also a competitive sprint kayaker, rower and open water swimmerI am about to compete in the Massive Murray Paddle in Australia at theend of this month.
1st: Complete the race2nd: Compete against myself3nd: Learn more about myself through the challenge4th: Race the other boats
Learn more about myselfRaise fund for mental health services
From: Tofino, BC, Canada
Enjoy the scenery, and to finish in one piece.
I've met some awesome people who have done this race and I'm only in Canada for two years so thought I'd go for it.
