Windsurfing News
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The Highland Spring HIHO 2011 offered a great windsurfing as over 50 racers completed a total of 13 races in five days, in the British Virgin Islands. Wilhelm Schurmann, from Brazil, was the major standout of the windsurfing class. Slater Trout, a 16-year old sailor from Maui, won all the open class SUP races.
João Rodrigues has entered the Guinness Book of World Records after sailing more than 160 consecutive miles (296 kilometers) between the Madeira Island and the Selvagem Grande Island, on a RS:X windsurf board.
Top windsurfing races were displayed in Castlegregory for the second round of the 2011 Irish Slalom Series. Fifty competitors showed up for two days of incredible winds and two fleets: Gold and Silver.
The Original Windsurfer has returned to the competition waters at the XXVI World Festival On The Beach Mondello in Palermo, Italy. To celebrate 37 years of windsurf racing, the Legend's Race attracted some of the athletes who have made history in the sport.
Jacques van der Hout has broken the world distance record in windsurfing after sailing 520.8 kilometres in one single day, in the Netherlands.