The Stratford Rotary Dragon Boat Festival
Saturday September 13th 2025
It will be held on Lake Victoria in Stratford on September 13, 2024. We hope to have over 40 teams participating in recreational Hong Kong style races including:
- A 2,000 meter race final featuring the top eight teams.
- Over 30, 500 meters races with four lanes.
Classes include Mixed Division, Breast Cancer and Women's Division teams.
Over 3,000 are expected t0 participate by watching the races, enjoying the food, entertainment and refreshments and visiting the Kid's Tent.
This event is the largest single fundraiser each year for the Stratford Rotary Club and it's many Rotary Community projects and Activities. The 27 running of this festival has raised over $1,000,000 in profit for our community. We keep costs as low as possible through the efforts of the many volunteers that support the event, the many sponsors and partners that provide cash and free services to us to help pay the expenses of mounting one of the best Dragon Boat Events in Ontario.
Be one of the thousands of people that attend the event and enjoy the day!
Introduction to the website:
We have grouped together content around a number of links that you will find on this page.
- About Us provides you with some background and a little about the history of the event including some video and audio clips.
- Event Registration contains everything you need to register your team and sign up it's members.
- Event Information provides details about the day of the event.
- Event Results is the posting of pictures of the event, the results, pictures of the teams and the unofficial finish line photos.
- Sponsors and Partners are the critically important financial and services support required to make the event happen.
Contacts
- For general questions about the event contact the event chair, Rob Ritz at robert@ritzarchitect.com
- For administrative questions including registration information contact Susan Roach at admin@ritzarchitect.com
- For questions regarding the races and the boats contact Mike Neilson at mikeneilson@wrightman.ca
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