Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th
The Nene is Back and the Nene is fun! An artificial slalom course in Northampton, with all facilities, changing rooms, showers café, onsite camping. You can enter here.
This event is for all our ranking paddlers, but less experienced paddlers can come along and help, they will be rewarded with an officials completion and time to paddle on the course. For more information talk to our coaches.
The Nene is not far from London and should be an easy drove. to get directions please click here.
There will be one race on Saturday, another on Sunday, you can enter one day or both days. There will be Shark coaches on site all weekend. The event has not been run the last couple of years for a variety of reason. It is important we support this event and keep it on the calendar, it is one of the few events that is fairly local, so please make an effort and enter here.
Last race there was in October 2023 and here is how it went.
Want to know more about Slalom?
Talk to any of our coaches at any of our sites and they will help you.
The Sharks Slalom Team practice at Harefield on Sunday mornings and Tuesday evenings. For more information about this event of about getting involved with slalom (you don’t need any experience of kit, and it really is a lot of fun) please email: slalom@thesharks.org.uk. We will soon be starting slalom sessions at Thamesmead.
Published 10th August 2026