Historical Race Reports -- 1983 to 2011
Starting with the 1983 trip to Hong Kong as the first ever "Team USA" invited to attend the Dragon Boat World Championships, the journey of the Philadelphia Dragon Boat Association has been told by many people.
2011 Head Coach Bob McNamara's 2011 Season Recap. It covers the season-long journey we took, which lead to Team USA's second Nation's Cup victory at the 10th IDBF World Championships in Tampa, Florida. 2009 Coach Bob's review of the 2009 season, with the IDBF World
Championships held in Prague, Czech Republic. The 2009 PDBA Youth Team Season Report by Bob and Pete
McNamara, including their first-ever Gold medal win.
2007 Bob McNamara's recap of the first-ever IDBF World
Championship Nation's Cup victory for Team USA
in Sydney, Australia. 2005 The Philadelphia
Dragon Boat Association 2005 Season Review, by Bob McNamara 2004 Coach McNamara's 2004 Season Review, featuring the IDBF
World Championships in Shanghai,
China. 2002
Head Coach Bob McNamara's first recap. This is from
the 2002 season, and the IDBF World Championships in Rome, Italy
1996 News Broadcast coverage (from 6ABC Action News) on the 1996 team as they prepared for the World Championships. Philadelphia Inquirer writeup on the 1996 Team and their 4th place finish at the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival. 1995 Coach Bob McNamara's summary of the 1995 team and their trip to Hong Kong and China, culminating in a stunning silver medal performance in the 1000 Meter Final at World Championships. But as you'll read, just getting to Worlds that year was half the fun. Philadelphia Inquirer: "Sure, dragon-boat racing is probably Philadelphia's smallest, most
obscure sport. But these guys live up to the sportswriters' lexicon of
cliches: dead serious, finely honed, fiercely competitive, rock-hard,
simon-pure amateurs who compete for the love of sports." 1992 The 1992 Team USA Hong Kong World Championships report from "Diversions" magazine, June 1993 issue. 1985 The summary for the 1985 Philadelphia Men's Dragon Boat Team
and their second trip to Hong Kong for the
World Championships, as told by Jack Seitz. 1983 From the TV show "PM Magazine," comes this report about the first ever US Dragon Boat team and their race in Hong Kong as the Philadelphia Men's Dragon Boat Team in 1983.
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