{"id":18353,"date":"2018-07-01T15:30:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/canadian-uk-teams-claim-top-spots-at-yukon-river-quest-2\/"},"modified":"2018-07-01T15:30:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T22:30:24","slug":"canadian-uk-teams-claim-top-spots-at-yukon-river-quest-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/canadian-uk-teams-claim-top-spots-at-yukon-river-quest-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian, UK teams claim top spots at Yukon River Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, Yukon Wide Adventures finished first overall at the Yukon River Quest.<\/p>\n<p>The six-person canoe team made up of paddlers from three Canadian provinces (Yukon, British Columbia and Northwest Territories) completed the 444-mile race down the Yukon River in 44 hours, 21 minutes, 53 seconds. They pulled in to Dawson City at 5:21 p.m. (6:21 p.m. Yukon Standard Time) on Friday night. Another six-person canoe team, Paddlesports Mongrels, of the United Kingdom, was close behind Yukon Wide Adventures with a time of 44:44:31.<\/p>\n<p>The race began Wednesday afternoon in Whitehorse. It went uninterrupted save for two required rest stops, one for three hours and the other for seven hours. By 9 a.m. Saturday, approximately 30 of the 77 teams were still on the water. Only 13 finished on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 20th Yukon River Quest, the world&rsquo;s longest annual paddling race which attracted teams from fifteen different countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year in a row, Yukon Wide Adventures finished first overall at the Yukon River Quest. The six-person canoe team made up of paddlers from three Canadian provinces (Yukon, British Columbia and Northwest Territories) completed the 444-mile race down the Yukon River in 44 hours, 21 minutes, 53 seconds. They pulled in to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":18354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-18353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18353"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=18353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}