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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Print/export Download as PDF ... The Windsurfing World Championships is an international sailing competition organized ... This page was last edited on 26 November ...
Pierre LE COQ (FRA) Ron ASULIN (ISR) Dimitris VLACHAKIS (GRE) 2008 Århus (DEN) 27 Boards. Michalis Malekkides (CYP) Thiseas Kampas (GRE) Oliver-Tom Schliemann (GER) 2009 Buzios (BRA)
Sean O'Brien (born 6 January 1984 in Brisbane) is an Australian professional windsurfer competing on the PWA World Tour [1] and the International Formula Windsurfing Class Tour. [2] He was ranked 7th in the World in Formula Windsurfing in 2012 [3] and has won 11 Australian Windsurfing Titles across three racing disciplines, the most of any ...