Rotary Narrandera presents
The Great Australian Drop Bear Race
The bears have run.
Saturday 19 September 2026. Twenty drop bears, four races, one river - and $0 raised for koala preservation in Narrandera.
Official results - Saturday 19 September 2026
Four races. Twelve podium places. No appeals from the bears.
The winners
Fourteen winning backers. One fine afternoon.
Winners have been emailed. First place paid 3x the winning stake, second paid 2x and third paid 1x. Across the four races, $0 was awarded in cash prizes.
Not claimed yet?
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Thank you, Narrandera
A riverbank full of good sorts.
To every backer, crew member, volunteer and sponsor - thank you. You turned twenty bits of foam with attitude into a proper country-town fundraiser. Rabbs Entertainment carried the livestream from the riverbank so the cheers could travel well beyond Narrandera.
- Rotary Club of Narrandera
- MangoMagic
- Mango Communities
- AgriDrone
- BioGrow Lifescience
- Access All Areas
- McGrath
- Clark
- Narrandera Shire Council
- Rabbs Entertainment
- Drop Bear Storage
Why we did it
The bears are fake. The koalas are not.
Narrandera's koala colony lives along the Murrumbidgee - about 290 of them, counted by hand every September since 1979. The Dash is over, but the work of protecting their habitat carries on.
The record of the day
The crowd's leaderboard.
A final record of where the 2026 backing landed. The river had the last word.
What's next
Same river. Fresh trouble. See you in 2027.
Join the Narrandera dispatch for koala news and the first word on the 2027 Dash.