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The 2024 Defi Wind recap

The 2024 Defi Wind recap

Bookending a historical event As we're all headed back home after this year's Defi Wind we're looking back at four days of nonstop fun! The wind didn't serve up the typical Tramuntana conditions this year. But rather, it left space open for quiet sun-soaked days of...

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PWA Gran Canaria World Cup 2023 – eight days of full on action

PWA Gran Canaria World Cup 2023 – eight days of full on action

This year’s Gran Canaria world cup was a week-long windsurfing action reel covering wave, and slalom racing.

Not a single day was quiet during this year’s Gran Canaria World Cup. The first weekend delivered the near-perfect wave conditions we all see in magazine shots. Then followed three days of full-power slalom racing, only to have wave action return the following weekend to bookend an incredible event.

Nearly all podiums had Severne riders present. Amongst others, Daida Moreno won her 22nd Pozo title, and Blanca Alabau won her first-ever women’s slalom victory.

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Severne team successful at PWA Croatia – Sara Wennekes takes the win, Matteo Iachino is third

Severne team successful at PWA Croatia – Sara Wennekes takes the win, Matteo Iachino is third

The island of Bol in Croatia was the host of the first PWA slalom world cup of the year. The conditions switched on every day and provided for eight slalom eliminations in both women and men’s divisions.

For the Severne team, all riding on the new Mach 5 and HyperGlide 5 racing sails, it was successful, to say the least.

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Amado Vrieswijk is 2021 PWA Freestyle World Champion, Maaike Huvermann is vice champion

Amado Vrieswijk is 2021 PWA Freestyle World Champion, Maaike Huvermann is vice champion

The 2021 PWA world tour season has come to an end, and Amado Vrieswijk can call himself the 2021 freestyle World Champion. Maaike Huvermannn is vice world champion. But that’s not all.

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Defi Wind is back with a “Superstars” edition

Defi Wind is back with a “Superstars” edition

After a long period of absence, the Defi Wind is back in a special edition format from October 29th until November 5th. It won’t be the Defi Wind everyone is used to, but will be run as a “Defi Wind Superstars” where amateur racers can battle for the top positions to be able to go up against the superstars who are already seeded into a main event.

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