After three events, Severne rider Cedric Bordes is overall French champion in the windfoil discipline and finished second overall in the fin slalom discipline. Cedric used the Hyper foil racing sails along with the Hydro 85 foil racing board for the foil discipline and used the Mach 7 for fin slalom.
MORE PODIUMS FOR TEAM SEVERNE The PWA Fuerteventura Slalom event delivered a spectacular five-days of racing, where both Slalom X and Foil Slalom categories proved to be intense to say the least. The event brought the spectators and riders alike a mixture of lighter...
Philip Köster brought back the triple loop once again, Lina finished second overall and now leads world ranking, and Matteo Iachino finished second overall in the first-ever Slalom X contest. It seems as if the 2024 Pozo Gran Canaria World Cup had action from the very first minute until the end.
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 hangouts on the beach, lots of gear talks, activities, and the occasional fun race.
Ten days of solid wind combined with stunning, magazine-turquoise waters set the perfect scenario for the 48 fastest slalom windsurfers and the 40 best freestylers to battle their way towards a 2023 World Title.
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.
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.
After years of no large scale events, the 2022 edition of the Defi Wind brought back all of the best elements of the past; lots of wind, lots of action, parties, and the reunion of 1200+ windsurfers from across the globe.
