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#2016SWC
Sailing world Cup : Hyères reserves its toughest challenge for final day
Hyères threw out its toughest challenge for the final day of racing at the Sailing World Cup with a truly up and down day of the purest form. A breeze in excess of 20 knots came through in the morning with many wondering if there would even be any racing at all. Thunder, lightning, torrential rain and huge winds ensured the Olympic sailors (...) -
#ISAF
Youth Worlds : The Nations Trophy was won by Australia with boy’s Laser Radial sailor Alistair Young leading the charge
The final day of the 45th Youth Sailing World Championships produced some tense finishes as medal places were mixed about on the waters of Langkawi, Malaysia. The gold medal in the boy’s Laser Radial and 420 were already decided, with some of the sailors in other fleets knowing they had a medal, just not what colour it would be. There (...) -
#PWAworldTour
PWA World Tour : Albeau secures 4th consecutive world title
The final day of the Airwaves Noumea PWA Dream Cup saw huge crowds gather in Noumea to see the world’s fastest sailors battling it out one final time for 2015 — and they were treated to several hours of world class racing as winds of 20-25 knots provided a fitting finale to this year’s PWA Slalom World (...) -
#Funboard
Luderitz Speed Challenge : 53.27 kts for Antoine Albeau (new world record)
Antoine Albeau started to go over 51 knots on Monday during the LUDERITZ SPEED Speed #speedsailing CHALLENGE 2015 event and was joined by Patrik Diethelm (ITA). At about that time, around 1.15pm, Karin Jaggi (29 World titles) pushed hard and broke the Female World Record Record #sailingrecord in Windsurfing with 46.31 kts! (Previously (...) -
#Luderitz
Luderitz Speed Challenge : Antoine Albeau was leading the race on Saturday ending with 51.66 kts
The forecast was very good to train, at the start of Race Day on Friday, and then with stronger winds averaging 30-35 knots with much stronger gusts up to 55 knots revealing rough conditions on Saturday. Then, Sunday has not been as strong as predicted (only 30 kts average when the forecast was showing 40). One race day has been achieved as (...) -
#PWA #Funboard
PWA World Tour : Dieter Van der Eyken crowned champion of the world
The wind may have not played ball for much of the 2015 Davidoff Cool Water Sylt PWA World Cup — with it being possible to complete just one slalom elimination, but there was still plenty of entertainment with SUP Races and some of the most spectacular tow-in windsurfing ever seen wowing the massive (...) -
Séries Olympiques
ISAF SAiling World Cup Hyères : Double French Gold In Paralympic Events
France’s Damien Seguin, in the 2.4mR, and Bruno Jourdren, Eric Flageul and Nicolas Vimont-Vicary, in the Sonar, made it a double gold for the host nation at ISAF Sailing World Cup Hyères as the Paralympic competition wrapped up. -
Coupe d’Europe Olympique
Trofeo Princesa Sofia : The french teams are performing well in Palma
The medal races concluded on Saturday the 46th edition of the Trofeo Sofia IBEROSTAR deciding on the Olympic classes winners. Two final races in the 2.4 and the Dragon conclude the event. -
#Olympics
ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami : It was a week of superlatives
Think 678 sailors, 599 boats, 150 races for ten Olympic classes and three Paralympic classes. At the ISAF Sailing World Cup Miami, presented by Sunbrella, we talked of "a racecourse built out of shifts." We spoke of competitive performances that exceeded any comparison to walking a tightrope. Dancing on a tightrope would be more to the (...) -
ISAF Sailing World Cup
Giard Covers Kokkalanis To Seal Men’s RS:X Title in Abu Dhabi
Racing at the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Cup Final in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates has wrapped up with praise in abundance for the venue. Abu Dhabi has spoilt the 270 competitors from 38 nations over four days of racing. Medal Races across the ten Olympic events and Open kiteboarding brought proceedings to a close in an exciting finale in the (...)