20 Beaches 2021 - December 11th

With vaccination rates all heading in the right direction in New South Wales, our set race date of December 11th 2021 provides us with a strong possibility that we will be able to conduct Australia’s oldest ocean paddling race this year.

What this year’s race will look like, will depend on the government restrictions enforced at the time of the race, however there is enough evidence to suggest that restrictions will ease enough by the race day and at the minimum we should be able to conduct a race for Sydney and NSW based paddlers and a best-case scenario seeing interstate paddlers being able to attend.

At this stage, it is still unclear as to what state borders will be open to Sydney and NSW by that time, however if interstate paddlers are able to travel to Sydney’s Northern Beaches come race day, we would endeavour to provide as much of an incentive as we possibly can, to entice Australia’s Surfski Community to come and compete in this iconic race!

Shaw and Partners 20 Beaches Ocean Classic Race Director, Justin Ryan commented that “We would be thrilled to be able to bring the 20 Beaches Ocean Classic back again in 2021, particularly considering how tough the past few years have been. The feeling I get from paddlers who I talk to is that they would be absolutely pumped to be able to be back on the start line on December 11th and we are excited that this has now become a possibility.”

The 2021 Shaw and Partners 20 Beaches Ocean Classic is proudly supported by Shaw and Partners Financial Services as the race title sponsor. Co- CEO of Shaw and Partners Earl Evans, has stamped his approval for the 20 Beaches to be run this year in whatever shape or form possible

Supporting sponsors in 2021 will again include: KPMG, Fitness First, Vaikobi and Ocean Paddler as well as a new supporting sponsor Prime 100.

The 2021 edition of the race will again be conducted by the 20 Beaches Ocean Classic committee as well as Dean Gardiner, Yanda Nossiter and the Ocean Paddler Team along with the well known Northern Beaches paddling group known as “The Spooners”.

Stay tuned for further updates as they come to hand.

Any questions - info@20beaches.com.au