The Stratford Rotary Dragon Boat Festival
2026
Saturday September 19th
Robert Ritz, Chair
519-271-4603
The basics about the event and this website:
It will be held on Lake Victoria in Stratford on September 19, 2026. We will have over 30 teams participating in recreational Hong Kong style races including:
- A 2,000 meter race final featuring the top eight teams.
- Three 500 metre races for all teams.
- We are planning 100 metre sprints for the top four women's and top four Breast Cancer Survivors teams.
- Classes include Mixed Division, Breast Cancer Survivors and Women's Division teams.
Over 3,000 are expected t0 attend in order to watch the races, enjoy the food, entertainment, refreshments and to visit the “Kid's Tent”.
This event is the single largest fundraiser each year for the Stratford Rotary Club and its many Community projects and activities. The 28 occurrences of this festival has raised over $1,100,000 in profit to reinvest in our community.
We keep costs as low as possible through the efforts of the many volunteers that staff the event, the many sponsors and partners that provide cash and free services to us.
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 the results.
- Sponsors and Partners are the critically important financial and services support required to make this 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 dragonboat@rotarystratford.com
- For questions regarding the races and the boats contact Mike Neilson at mikeneilson@wightman.ca