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Windsurfing
PWA World Tour 2023: Sarah-Quita Offringa claims 14th Freestyle world title
With the men’s and women’s double eliminations being completed yesterday, which saw Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins) crowned Freestyle world champion for the 14th time and Yentel Caers (JP / NeilPryde) claim his first event victory, the final day of the 2023 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam was a (...) -
Inshore Racing | Kitefoil
Kitefoiling Youth Worlds : Lysa Caval and Maximilian Maeder crowned 2023 U21 Champions
The always reliable Gizzeria sea breeze decided to take a break on the last day of the Formula Kite Youth Worlds, sadly making it impossible to complete the women’s final. Singapore’s wonder-boy Max Maeder yesterday said that he wished for a stress free final and his wish came true resulting in yet another youth world title for the (...) -
Race around the World
11th Hour Racing Team has won The Ocean Race 2022-23
11th Hour Racing Team has won The Ocean Race the Ocean Race The Ocean Race et Volvo Ocean Race 2022-23, the world’s longest and toughest team sporting event - the first time a US team has won in the 50-year history of the Race. -
Inshore Racing | GC32
GC32 Racing Tour 2023: Rockwool’s Lagos GC32 masterclass
Four days of racing at the GC32 GC32 #GC32 Lagos Cup came to a conclusion today on Portugal’s Algarve coast with a run-away victory for the Nicolai Sehested-skippered Team Rockwool Racing. Out of 15 races sailed, the Danish SailGP crew won a phenomenal ten, including an opening day of five races when they were unbeaten. In fact (...) -
Punta Ala, Livorno, Pisa
151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar: Peter Harburg’s 100ft Black Jack scoops line honours
Under normal circumstances a newer, longer canting keel race boat would comfortably leave a shorter, fixed keel water ballasted race boat as a speck in its rear view mirror. Not so with this year’s 151 Miglia-Trofeo Cetilar, from Livorno to Punta Ala via the Giraglia Rock and Elba. This year’s race started and, for the front (...) -
One design racing
Womens Match Racing Tour 2023: Pauline Courtois won the Normandie Match Cup
French female match racer Pauline Courtois and her Match in Pink Normandy Elite team proved unstoppable yesterday as they defended their Normandie Match Cup title in Le Havre, France, Stage 3 of the 2023 Women’s World Match Racing Tour World Match Racing Tour #WMRT (...) -
Kitefoil
Formula Kite: Youth Europeans titles for Pégourié and Pianosi • Master Worlds for Ginyol
Héloïse Pégourié overcame the odds to win a last-gasp gold in Torregrande. The French rider becomes the Formula Kite Youth European Champion alongside Italy’s Riccardo Pianosi who won the boys’ title in the under-21 fleet. -
Olympic racing
World Cup Series France : Flying French find golden finish to Hyères medal races
France topped the national medal table after foiling to three golds on the last day of the 54th Semaine Olympique Française de Hyères - TPM. There were thrillers across the fleet 8-10 knots easterlies that grew and filled in as the day went on. The medals were spread through the nations with France winning three golds and Spain and Britain (...) -
Realteam for Léman hope
Blue Ribbon Lake Geneva record: 46 minutes and 48 seconds for Esteban Garcia’s TF35
The prestigious speed Speed #speedsailing record Record #sailingrecord covering the length of Lake Geneva between Port-Noir (GE ) and Le Bouveret (VS) had been held by Hydros.ch since 2014, but Monday, at 15.27, flying over the virtual finish line near Port Noir, the Lausanne team of Esteban Garcia and Jerome Clerc has set a new record (...) -
The Ocean Race
11th Hour Racing Team set a new 24-hour distance record of 544.63 nautical miles
It’s week 2, Leg 3 of The Ocean Race the Ocean Race The Ocean Race et Volvo Ocean Race - the world’s longest and toughest sporting event - and the only US entry, 11th Hour Racing Team, has passed the remote Kerguelen Islands, and soon they’ll be passing to the south of Australia. It has been a week of emotional highs and (...)