1. Venue

2. Format and Rules

3. References

4. External links

The Toronto International Dragon Boat Race Festival (TIDBRF), is an annual dragon boat regatta, first held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1988. It developed from the Canadian International Dragon Boat Festival held in Vancouver, BC. An associated festival highlights Asian and other culture in Toronto.

Venue

Races were originally held at the Ontario Place West Channel at Ontario Place, and since 2007 races take place in the Main Channel at Centre Island, one of the Toronto Islands. The Main Channel race course is 500 m long and six lanes wide.

Format and Rules

Races occur over two days. Once separated into Community and Corporate categories, races were combined into the following categories for the 18th (2006) festival:

• Premier Mixed (at least 8 women)
• Premier Women (all women)
• Junior Mixed (at least 8 girls)

In addition to divisional finals seeded by aggregate time from two heats, there are also industry finals for teams representing groups in certain categories. In 2006, these were:

• Community groups
• Non-profit groups and charities
• Universities
• Other education groups
• Hospitals
• Industries
• Breast cancer survivors
• Technology & Communications companies
• Pharmaceutical companies

References

• Toronto Star GTA Section June 25. 2005 B3

External links

• Official Website
• Toronto Chinese Business Association - principal organizer
• Dragon Boat Canada
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070824054801/http://www.dragonboatnet.com/ Dragon Boat Net - The Paddlers Site]
• Dragon Boat World Int. - the worlds dragon boat magazine

• University of Buckingham Students' Union
• University of Buea Faculty of Engineering and Technology
• University of Buffalo School of Dental Medicine
• University of Buffalo School of Law
• University of Buffalo School of Management
• University of Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
• University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy
• University of Buffalo School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
• University of Buffalo, SUNY
• University of Buner
• University of Burgundy - Franche-Comte
• University of Béjaïa
• University of Caen Lower Normandy
• University of Cagayan Valley
• University of Calgary Faculty of Arts
• University of Calgary School of Public Policy
• University of Calicut School of Drama and Fine Arts
• University of Californa at Santa Barbara
• University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
• University of California at La Jolla
• University of California at Long Beach
• University of California at Los Angeles School of Law
• University of California at San Diego Medical School
• University of California, Berk
• University of California (Berkeley)