Outright World Records

500 m Men Hydroptere 51.36kn
500 m Women  S. Bredenkamp 45.20kn
Nautical Mile Men Hydroptere 50.17kn
Nautical Mile Women Z. Davis 34.74kn
 

Hall of Fame

karin.jpgKarin Jaggi is the most successful womens windsurfer in history, and raised the 10m class outright record after 12 years from 40.05 to 41.25 knots.
 
National Records: Canada
500 m Men S. Stephan 30.37kn
500 m Women  J. Parker 22.86kn
Nautical Mile Men n/a n/a
Nautical Mile Women n/a n/a
 

Rankings 2009

  • ISWC Nations

    1. France
    2. Netherlands
    3. Germany
    4. Sweden
    5. Italy

  • IKA Overall Men

    1. Alex Caizergues, FRA
    2. Sylvain Hoceini, FRA
    3. Rob Douglas, USA
    4. D. Williams, GBR
    5. D. Leroy, USA

  • ISWC Overall Women

    1. Z. Davis, GBR
    2. V. Ghibaudo, FRA
    3. B. Hoefer, GER
    4. M. Geldhof, BEL
    5. M. Raisi, FRA

  • ISWC Overall Men

    1. B. Dunkerbeck, SUI
    2. H. Kreisel, NED
    3. D.-J. Knol, NED
    4. C. Lockwood, AUS
    5. M. Bengtsson, SWE

  • IKA Nations

    1. France
    2. USA
    3. Great Britain
    4. Germany
    5. South Africa

  • IKA Overall Women

    1. M. Gil, USA
    2. C. Consorti, FRA
    3. S. Bredenkamp, RSA
    4. J. Grobbelaar, GBR
    5. Caroline Adrien, FRA

Seasons Top Speed

44.19 kn

Dave Williams
at the Speed Europeans
Dungarvan, Ireland

Rider of the day

Antoine Albeau, FRA
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Approved Worldcup Spots

Leucate, FRA

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Spot Record: 39.95 knots
Manu Taub, FRA, 2005

 
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1. Speedsailing Hall Of Fame Poll
(News/General News)
... knots Olaf Marting, RSA Two times WSSRC Kitespeed World Record Holder Rob Douglas, USA Took the Outright Record from the Windsurfers to the Kiteboarders, 2 times within 0.3 knots of t...
Wednesday, 27 January 2010

...dini (ITA) set the top speed in the windsurfers fleet with slightly over 40 knots, and Zara Davis (GBR) took victory in the womens fleet. In the Kiteboarding fleet, Jason McCaffrey (GBR, Cabrin...
Saturday, 07 November 2009

...me had come...winds in the 30-knot range with gusts in the 32 range. On our second to last run we took off and a gust launched us into a top speed of 54 knots and the nautical mile into the 47,...
Wednesday, 09 September 2009

...rd Karpathos conditions, with good thermal winds and another two rounds dominated by Finian who clearly took the lead. Day three brought another windy day on the beaches of Karpathos and anothe...
Wednesday, 05 August 2009

...till allowed for top speeds of almost 39 knots, another time Finian Maynard was dominating the heat and took victory ahead of Anders Bringdal and Jacques van der Hout (NED). Still, Antoine moved up in...
Tuesday, 04 August 2009

...ge of 100 runs... nearly twice that of any rival batsman. He received a huge and extended ovation as he took the field which left him quite emotional. On only his second ball he was bowled out for a &...
Tuesday, 21 April 2009

... clearance at speed. I decided to go for the mile. It would be our only chance of any success. We took VESTAS SAILROCKET up to the second lagoon launch pad and got her all ready. It was getting ...
Monday, 20 April 2009

...We are on our way out to speed-spot now after spending the morning giving the wing a good servicing. We took it off the boat and went over all the tapes before getting the heat-gun out and shrinking a...
Saturday, 18 April 2009

...side and VESTAS SAILROCKET sits in her tent still dripping. Either way she did good... real good. She took an old school rough ride as the visibility was bad from the start due to a foggy visor. Ju...
Thursday, 09 April 2009

...he mile course for a few days. The camera crew have gone home and the forecast was for only 19 knots. I took the opportunity to re-paint my helmet. So of course... the wind has come up and now we are ...
Friday, 03 April 2009

...ong enough for us to begin to lose hope. Then it began to build. When the gusts hit 21 knots we took VESTAS SAILROCKET up to the top of the course for the nautical mile. This takes us around ...
Thursday, 02 April 2009

...scars from battle and what a battle it's been. I think that on the last run she felt it was time that I took some of the damage... just so I know what it feels like! Despite getting knocked abou...
Wednesday, 25 March 2009

...RESEARCH logging system to make sure the information we were getting was spot-on... It was. It took some time to get the accurate results post processed off the TRIMBLE GPS to see what we rea...
Saturday, 28 February 2009

.... As mentioned in an earlier blog, we use an array of Lasers, jigs and digital equipment to do this. It took two days... but the effort seems to have paid off.   I want to make ful...
Sunday, 22 February 2009

...... but still 3.21 knots short of the Outright world record currently held by the kitesurfers. The team took VESTAS SAILROCKET back to the top of the course with a view to the Outright record. On the ...
Tuesday, 10 February 2009

... In the ladies division, Valerie Ghibaudo discarded the last event of the season in Dungarvan and still took victory over Zara Davis (GBR) and Marion Raisi (FRA). Starboard was able to win its f...
Saturday, 06 December 2008

... The last two days of competition saw hauling winds again, and Rob Douglas and Sebastien Cattelan took another shot at the record, but missed Alex' best speed by only 1/100 (Rob Douglas) and 2/1...
Friday, 10 October 2008

...peed windsurfing world champions 2008. After 7 rounds of speedsailing in challenging conditions, Albeau took the victory with a perfect score of 3.5 points. Vice world champion became Patrik Dieth...
Saturday, 02 August 2008

...lan, Robert Douglas and Alex Caizergues. Cattelan ended the event with two more bullets and clearly took the event win, but it was very close between the second and the third place. The better end...
Wednesday, 23 July 2008

...telan (FRA) with 39.26 knots, an impressive speed for this conditions. But it was another Frenchman who took the overall lead, as Catman only finished third in round two. Alex Caizergus is leading the...
Sunday, 20 July 2008

21. Dutch Championship: Day 3
(News/Event News)
... He sailed comfortably to a top speed of over 38 knots and an average speed of 36.9 knots. Peter de Wit took the honours the second and third heat and used a Fanatic Falcon 79 with a Neil Pryde EVO 6....
Friday, 02 May 2008

22. Interview with Farrel O'Shea
(Press/Interviews)
...s a Force10 so you can imagine this was real windy. But I was ok on that sail. First run I took it easy, but then the wind picked up and the second run of the day, when I broke Whitey&rsq...
Tuesday, 22 April 2008

23. KA Konzept
(Featured/Featured Equipment)
...t consistent performance in all sizes. We graphed every parameter and shape for each sail size. We then took all the feedback and analyzed against the graphs and find the anomalies to learn what was m...
Thursday, 17 April 2008

24. Monsieur Bielak says good by
(Press/Interviews)
...I started windsurfing in 1980 aged 24  and did my first speed competition in Brest in 1984. But it took me another 5 years to win my first speed world championships in St-Maries-de-la-Mer in 1989...
Thursday, 17 April 2008

... the Masters of Speed… Without them we’d never have had the energy to go the extra mile it took ! Interview by www.windsurfjournal.com ...
Tuesday, 08 April 2008

... the day with three bullets in conditions of 30-40 knots of wind and a slightly better angle. Charlotte took two out of three victories, but all the races in the ladies fleet are very close between he...
Monday, 07 April 2008

27. Speed:World:Cup France: Day 2
(News/Event News)
...ories.  Skippersmeeting was held at 9:00 and the first start scheduled for 10:15 hours. Alex took the lead from the very beginning, only challenged Sebastien Cattelan. Manu Taub showed his ...
Wednesday, 02 April 2008

28. French Cup 2008: Final Report
(Press/Press Releases)
... first heats were dominated by Cedric Bordes  and Fabien Pendle, but after the first discard Cyril took the lead and defended it with two bullets on the last windy day of the competition. Fabien ...
Saturday, 29 March 2008

29. Hydroptere back in business
(News/General News)
...er a pure-speed configuration period of six months in the shipyard. l’Hydroptère team took the opportunity of a quiet weather period to put the flying trimaran back in the water and ...
Thursday, 27 March 2008

30. French Cup: Day 4
(News/Event News)
...ter angle this time. This resulted in a new spot top speed of 38.19 knots set by Cyril Moussilmani, who took advantage of the better conditions. Unfortunately the water was too rough for even better s...
Tuesday, 25 March 2008

31. French Cup: Day 2
(News/Event News)
...second round, only beaten by Cyril Moussilmani (Fanatic, North) and ahead of Xavier Joly (Fanatic), who took the right gust in the right moment. In the womens fleet, both heats were won by Valer...
Sunday, 23 March 2008

32. Speed:World:Cup welcomes The Loft
(News/General News)
... every Speed World Cup event! Early last year she was recovering from a shoulder injury, then Valerie took two of the big 3 events last year.  This year she is ready!  I have been busy pre...
Wednesday, 20 February 2008

33. Philip Adamidis, GRE
(Riders/Riders)
...ed 21st in European men Div II championship in Neuseedler See Austria. In 1983 the first Funboard races took place in Greece and ever since he got hooked. Being a good overall sailor, he attracted som...
Thursday, 03 January 2008

34. Christian Piepers, NED
(Riders/Riders)
...with my previous sail equipment it looks as if now I'm fully ready for some real competition. In 2007 I took a sabatical year since I started working in the USA but 2008 I will be back for some seriou...
Thursday, 03 January 2008

35. The 2007 World Champion Titles
(News/General News)
...learly to France. In total, more than 120 competitors from 25 nations, representing 5 continents, took part so far in the ISA Speedsurfing Grand Prix Tour 2007, and some more events are coming u...
Monday, 10 September 2007

...early to France. In total, more than 120 competitors from 25 nations, representing 5 continents, took part so far in the ISA Speedsurfing Grand Prix Tour 2007, and some more events are coming u...
Saturday, 08 September 2007

37. Industry Partners
(Static Content)
...ery Speed World Cup event! Early last year she was recovering from a shoulder injury, then Valerie took two of the big 3 events last year.  This year she is ready!  I have been busy pre...
Thursday, 27 December 2007

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