About Us

Text Box: Since 1996, the Gorging Dragons have been at the pinnacle of the dragon boat community on Vancouver Island. We are a registered society and dragon boat team that has helped develop many of Victoria’s best male and female paddlers as well as many of Victoria’s best dragon boat coaches. Four Gorging Dragon paddlers have been members of Canadian National Dragon Boat teams, and roughly half of all Victoria teams have been coached by Gorging Dragon members at one time or another. Our goal is to continue competing at the highest levels of international dragon boat competition, while continuing to foster an ever-growing dragon boat community in Victoria. In 1996, the Gorging Dragons (then known as Team Victoria) became Vancouver Island’s first organized team, spurring a rapid growth in the sport’s popularity in Victoria. Today, dragon boating is the world’s fastest growing team sport, and already has more than 50 million paddlers in 30 countries worldwide. There are roughly 250,000 paddlers in Western Canada, and Victoria alone boasts more than 40 teams. The Gorging Dragons will regularly compete against as many as 500 teams in a typical season (totaling more than 12,000 paddlers)! During a 5 month season the team will encounter anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000 spectators.

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