08/23/2026
🏁 Check out the latest update and complete listing of the North American Canoe Paddler Rankings (NACPR), covering the last nine races of the Triple Crown of Canoe Racing, through the 2026 AuSable River Canoe Marathon.
📊These rankings include all flatwater marathon C-2 canoe paddlers who have competed in at least one Triple Crown event within the last three years:
👑 New York’s Zaveral Racing Equipment General Clinton Canoe Regatta
👑 Michigan’s Consumers Energy AuSable River Canoe Marathon
👑 Quebec’s Classique internationale de canots de la Mauricie
💪 Quebec’s Guillaume Blais and Michigan’s Mike Davis jointly lead the NACPR rankings. The pair have won 5 of the last 9 Triple Crown races, including a three-year clean sweep in Quebec (2023-24-25) plus one victory each in New York and Michigan. Michigan’s Travis Mecklenburg and Weston Willoughby, Texas's Logan Mynar, and Michigan’s Wesley Dean - all with victories at Triple Crown races - round out the top six spots in the NACPR rankings.
💥 Six paddlers have completed all of the last nine Triple Crown races in New York, Michigan, and Quebec.
- Guillaume Blais, Quebec
- Eve Chamberland, Quebec
- Mike Davis, Michigan
- Renaud Flageole, Quebec
- Sarah Lessard, Quebec
- Louis-Simon Pruneau, Quebec
💥 There are 24 women in the top 200 paddlers, and 8 women in the top 100 paddlers:
- Rebecca Davis, Michigan
- Cecili Bugge, Michigan
- Eve Chamberland, Quebec
- Edith MacHattie, Saskatchewan
- Sarah Lessard, Quebec
- Mary Schlimmer-Willoughby, Michigan
- Michelle Laprade, Quebec
- Lydia Huelskamp, Pennsylvania
💥 More than 500 paddlers have completed at least 1 Triple Crown race during the past 3 years.
❓What is the NACPR and how does it work?
✅ AuSable Marathon and Triple Crown “Stats Guy” Ryan Matthews maintains the North American Canoe Paddler Ranking (NACPR) system, which was created by AuSable Marathon Hall of Fame Historian John Cook as part of his system for predicting the top-finishing teams for the AuSable Marathon. It is intended to be completely objective; rankings are determined solely by elapsed race times.
✅ The NACPR determines each paddler's Competitive Ratio: A paddler's time compared to the winner's time. For example, if you had a time of 17h:00m:00s and the winner's time was 14h:30m:00s, your Competitive Ratio would be 0.85294 or 85.294% [14:30:00 / 17:00:00 = 0.85294].
✅ The NACPR determines each paddler's Competitive Ratio for each of the last nine Triple Crown events and ranks all of the paddlers based upon their best Competitive Ratio. Ties between paddlers with the same ratios are resolved by: 1) the paddler who entered the most of the last nine events; 2) the paddler with the best average of ratios over the last nine events. If a tie stands after those tests, the paddlers remain tied with the same rank.
✅To keep the rankings current, the list is updated after each Triple Crown event to include only the past nine Triple Crown events
👉 For more information about the NACPR: https://www.ausablecanoemarathon.org/stats-and.../nacpr/
📩 Please direct any NACPR questions and/or comments to: [email protected]
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