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Dragon Boat Race Registration 2025

Dragon Boat Race Registration | January 2nd-May 7th, 2025 | Register
Registration for Mixed, Women’s, and Open Division From 7am January 2nd, 2025 through May 7th.

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Race Weekend 2025

Race Weekend | June 7-8, 2025 | South Hawthorne Waterfront Park, Portland Oregon
Our annual traditional-style dragon boat race held during the Portland Rose Festival. Free to the public. Come and enjoy an exciting weekend of Dragon Boat Races and local food and shopping vendors.

Portland’s Pink Phoenix is the country’s oldest all-breast cancer survivor dragon boat team (VIDEO)

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By Samantha Swindler | The Oregonian/OregonLive

The first breast cancer survivor dragon boat team in the country calls Portland home. Perhaps you’re wondering, “breast cancer survivor dragon boat teams are a thing?”

Indeed. The repetitive upper body workout of paddling is great physical therapy for breast cancer survivors, and dragon boating as a post-cancer activity has become an international phenomenon. Many dragon boat competitions have designated cancer survivor divisions.

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Think you have what it takes to race dragon boats?

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By Dillon Pilorget | The Oregonian/OregonLive

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Archive: Google Photos Album – 2015 Race Weekend

Most every Portlander has seen them, the dragon-shaped boats that take to the Willamette River each spring in practice for the Rose Festival Dragon Boat Races.

From waterfront walkways or atop bridges, the traditional Taiwanese boats can be seen ripping through the water like a dragon’s teeth rip through the flesh of its prey.

Any sport that involves piloting a dragon is bound to be intense from the get-go. And with a team of paddle-wielding warriors in charge of making the beast move, things are bound to get hot.

Have you got what it takes to race a dragon boat? The answer: probably.

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