Wednesday, 06 October 2021 21:10
Promise of engrossing world tour stop on Italian resort island wins top-level backing
The world’s fastest kiteboard racers are set for a dramatic showdown, as they go head-to-head in the third act of the KiteFoil World Series, which is to be fought-out off the magnificent Italian resort island of Sardinia. With the prospect of mouthwatering duels over four days’ high-octane racing at the 2021 KiteFoil World Series Cagliari, the event has again won the highest-level support from Sardinian authorities eager to project the island on the world stage. It is the globe-trotting tour’s fourth edition to be staged off Cagliari’s Poetto beach on the peerless Gulf of Angels. Key sponsors, Sardinia Region and City…
Sunday, 19 September 2021 19:19
France’s Mazella triumphs in thrillingly-tight racing at close of World Series stop in Austria
Frenchman Axel Mazella clinched victory in specularly close racing, in tricky conditions, on the final day of the KiteFoil World Series Traunsee, in Austria, fought out against a dramatic mountain backdrop. But to take the trophy, Mazella had to see off stiff challenges from rivals that ensured he had to share the bullets from closing day’s eight races with four other competitors who pushed him all the way. Just a week after Mazella seized the Formula Kite European championships crown, the 24-year-old took the podium’s top step and a share of the €15,000 prize money in the globe-trotting tour’s second act…
Saturday, 18 September 2021 20:04
Successful young racers fuelled by Olympic dreams shocked by tough transition to elite level
The ranks of elite kiteboard racers at the KiteFoil World Series Traunsee in Austria have been swollen by aspiring young athletes who have already tasted success. But for those scaled the highest levels of Twin-Tip: Racing (TT:R) at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in Buenos Aires in 2018, the transition to top-level kitefoil racing was a rude awakening. For some competing at the UPPER AUSTRIA KiteFoil Grand Prix, which is hosting the World Series’ second Act in the spectacular setting of Ebensee, the challenges and unexpected difficulties forced a dramatic reappraisal of themselves.
Friday, 17 September 2021 20:55
Sponsors seize on top-level kitefoil racing to burnish image to worldwide audience
The KiteFoil World Series Traunsee, the tour’s second stop, being fought out on a breathtaking mountain lake in Austria, has won the backing of key sponsors eager to deploy the top-level event to project the region on the world stage. International focus on the globe-trotting World Series tour, with its cutting-edge kitefoil racing contested by the world’s best, is being harnessed by key sponsors Upper Austria Tourism and the major Raiffeisenbank. In different ways, both backers see the attention-grabbing event, being hosted by the UPPER AUSTRIA KiteFoil Grand Prix, as an ideal vehicle to bring the strikingly beautiful region, filled with culture,…
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Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:12
Elite kiteboard racers suffer faltering start to campaigns on mountain lake in Austria
The opening round of the KiteFoil World Series Traunsee stop got off to a dramatic, if stuttering beginning, amid the splendour of striking Austrian mountains that offer a glorious backcloth to the lake’s racetrack. With a challenging weather forecast for the first day of racing in the UPPER AUSTRIA KiteFoil Grand Prix, which is hosting the World Series tour stop, the race committee was eager to get racing under way. But as the race started with the kiteboarders on their biggest 21m and 23m kites, the fickle 7kts to 8kts breezes were fading at the top mark of the course, which is…
Wednesday, 15 September 2021 22:58
World’s top kitefoil racers line up to battle on stunning Austrian mountain lake
The fastest kite racers in the world are ready for four days of intense race action at the UPPER AUSTRIA KiteFoil Grand Prix Traunsee which is hosting the highly-anticipated second stop of the IKA KiteFoil World Series. The high-octane event sponsored by Upper Austria Tourism will play out at Rindbach, Ebensee, on the southern end of Traunsee, a breathtakingly-beautiful lake framed by striking mountains and picture postcard villages. The dramatic backdrop and the lake’s flat waters will offer a fitting racetrack for the World Series’ second stop of a scheduled five, with the leading kitefoil racers fighting for a slice…
Sunday, 11 July 2021 16:58
TARADIN AND MOROZ WIN SEASON OPENER AT HANG LOOSE BEACH
Four days and 17 races later Denis Taradin (RYF) and Daniela Moroz (USA) are the winners of the KiteFoil World Series Gizzeria, the first of five events of the 2021 season. They have both been leading since the early stages of the event, Denis fighting till the very last race with Axel Mazella (FRA) only one point behind him in the final ranking and the winner of today’s second race. Toni Vodisek (SLO) is third with more than twice the points of the first two, but it is a big achievement for the Slovenian rider who was forced to a…
Saturday, 10 July 2021 19:10
TARADIN DEFENDS HIS LEAD ON THE FIRST DAY OF GOLD FLEET RACING IN GIZZERIA
The wind was already blowing strong and steady this morning when the 100 competitors arrived at Hang Loose Beach, Gizzeria, for day one of the Final Series of the first event of this year's KiteFoil World Series. The typical north-westerly breeze was coming a little more from offshore, generating bigger waves for the first time so far on the generally flat surface of the racecourse. Flying over the beach, the kites were smaller than yesterday as the wind forecast were calling for a stronger winds in the afternoon. From 13 knots in the first race, it picked up to over 20 knots,…
Saturday, 10 July 2021 00:10
DENIS TARADIN ON TOP AFTER 9 QUALIFYING SERIES RACES
A perfect day of sun, wind and kitefoiling in Gizzeria, Italy, at the Hang Loose Beach, for the last five races of the qualification series. The 100 competitors took to the water as scheduled and alternating went in and out of the water for the different races of the two fleets. A steady 15 knots breeze pushed the kites all afternoon on the flat waters off Gizzeria Lido, and apart from a few tangles here and there, everyone had fun flying over the racecourse.
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