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The IWT is the Hawaiian based organisation for the wave riders of the Asia Pacific hemisphere. [6] The Aloha Classic has often been the final event of the Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) [7] crowning the PWA Wave World Champions. During the 1980s and 1990s The Aloha Classic was a Grand Slam event offering competition in all three of ...
Jason Polakow (born 10 November 1971 in Torquay, Victoria) is an Australian professional windsurfer from Victoria. [1] He founded the watersports company JP Australia and [2] was the first windsurfer to ride big wave of Nazare, in Portugal. [3] Polakow gained notoriety in 1991 when we won the Marui/O’Neill World Cup Grand Slam contest against ...
Costa Teguise. Costa Teguise is a coastal town in the Municipality of Teguise on the island of Lanzarote (in the Canary Islands of Spain). It was built intentionally to accommodate tourism, and prior to building commencing the streets were planned, constructed, and serviced in advance. The town has four main beaches, all of which are natural ...
Windsurfing is a wind-propelled water sport that is a combination of sailing and surfing. [ 1 ] It is also referred to as "sailboarding" and "boardsailing", and emerged in the late 1960s from the Californian aerospace and surf culture. [ 2 ] Windsurfing gained a popular following across Europe and North America by the late 1970s [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ...
Robby Naish. Robert Staunton Naish (born April 23, 1963 in La Jolla, San Diego, California) is an American athlete and entrepreneur who has won 24 World Championship Windsurfing titles. [ 3 ][ 4 ][ 5 ] He is also considered a pioneer of kiteboarding and standup paddleboarding. In 1976, Naish won his first world championship in windsurfing at ...
Robby Swift (K-89) is a British Professional Windsurfer. (born 1984 in Great Britain). Competing internationally in the PWA World Tour as a wave/freestyle sailor. [1] He is currently team rider for Neil Pryde and JP Australia and sponsored by many other companies such as Mystic Windsurfing. He is named after the legend Robby Naish. He was the ...
The Windsurfing World Championships is an international sailing competition organized by World Sailing held since ... This page was last edited on 26 November 2023, ...
Sailboard. 1995 Mar del Plata. Mistral. 1999 Winnipeg. Mistral. Michael William "Gebi" Gebhardt (born November 25, 1965) is a former professional and Olympic windsurfer from the United States, who competed in five consecutive Summer Olympics, in the Olympic sailing discipline/event of windsurfing. He was born in Columbus, Ohio.