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The Aloha Classic is touted as "the single most prestigious event in the windsurfing world". [1] [2] Held at Ho'okipa Beach Park on the north shore of Maui, this event enjoys outstanding wave riding conditions showcasing the best wave riders from all over the world. [3] The event takes place each year in late October and early November for 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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...