Monday, 03 September 2018 17:23
Britain’s Guy Bridge on a Charge after Seizing Three Bullets in China
British athlete Guy Bridge charged up the leaderboard on the third day of the KiteFoil World Series at Weifang Binhai, in eastern China, with scintillatingly-quick and accomplished racing that earned him a hat-trick wins. The wins catapulted Bridge, the younger sibling of Olly Bridge, up the rankings to third spot overall on a day of confusingly-mixed conditions that finally came good late in the afternoon, enabling the race director to squeeze in four races. Bridge’s stellar outing on the two laps of the windward-leeward track on the Yellow Sea in 13kts to 18kts boosted his quest for overall victory at…
Sunday, 02 September 2018 17:11
France’s Parlier Creeps Back into Contention in Tricky Conditions in China
Reigning International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) KiteFoil World Champion, France’s Nico Parlier, edged his way up the order at the KiteFoil World Series being fought out off Weifang Binhai’s Joy Sea Beach in eastern China. The multiple world champion notched up a win and a third place in the only two races of the day after the early, shifty offshore breezes died completely. The finishes helped move Parlier up to third spot overall at the end of the second of five days of racing. But Britain’s Connor Bainbridge, the overnight leader thanks to a dominant first day on the Yellow Sea’s…
Saturday, 01 September 2018 17:02
Britain’s Bainbridge Stamps His Authority on Opening Proceedings
British racer Connor Bainbridge opened his account at the KiteFoil World Series in style, with a trio of wins that gave him the leaderboard’s top spot at the season-opening event being played out in Weifang Binhai, eastern China. The veteran sailor and windsurfer also bagged several high-placed finishes against a field stacked with the world’s fastest kitefoil racers, giving him a healthy points lead on the first of the five-day competition. Bainbridge was even able to shrug off the misfortune of catching some debris on his foil and crashing, putting his kite in the water and eventually finishing down the…
Saturday, 01 September 2018 14:21
Top KiteFoil Racers to Open Title Campaigns at Richest Event in China
All the globe’s leading KiteFoil athletes have journeyed to eastern China’s Weifang Binhai to begin their bids to lift the four-stop World Series’ crown on the smooth waters of the Yellow Sea. In the process the racers will be hoping to grab a share of the spoils—a purse of €60,000, the largest in kiteboarding—at the season opener off Weifang’s Joy Sea Beach. Weifang Binhai’s ambition now ensures that the venue bathed by lighter breezes has become a firm fixture on kite racing’s calendar, playing host to a clutch of international events including the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) Formula Kite Worlds…
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Sunday, 08 October 2017 19:36
Parlier Takes KiteFoil World Title While Mazella Grabs GoldCup World Series Crown
France’s Nico Parlier put on an imperious display to seize the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) KiteFoil World Championship on the final day of racing on the Italian resort island of Sardinia. Even before the last race of the Sardinia Kiteboard Grand Slam, Parlier’s haul of bullets during the four days of competition meant he had the championship in the bag because of his vastly superior score. But after adding two more bullets to his tally in the opening two races on the flat waters of the Gulf of Angels off Cagliari’s Poetto Beach, Parlier looked like he would make it…
Saturday, 07 October 2017 18:33
Variable Breezes Cause Parlier to Falter But Retain his Lead
The battle at the head of the order intensified as the changeable breezes caused the otherwise flawless French kitefoil racer Nico Parlier to skip a beat even as he cemented his overall lead on the Italian island of Sardinia. As the breeze dropped and shifted in the day’s final race at the Sardinia Kiteboard Grand Slam, Parlier’s countryman Axel Mazella finally turned the tables and took a precious bullet that left his rival trailing in second. No matter, Parlier had already notched up two bullets in the stronger 11kts-to-15kts breezes of the opening two races that stretched his advantage on…
Saturday, 07 October 2017 18:33
Variable Breezes Cause Parlier to Falter But Retain his Lead
The battle at the head of the order intensified as the changeable breezes caused the otherwise flawless French kitefoil racer Nico Parlier to skip a beat even as he cemented his overall lead on the Italian island of Sardinia. As the breeze dropped and shifted in the day’s final race at the Sardinia Kiteboard Grand Slam, Parlier’s countryman Axel Mazella finally turned the tables and took a precious bullet that left his rival trailing in second. No matter, Parlier had already notched up two bullets in the stronger 11kts-to-15kts breezes of the opening two races that stretched his advantage on…
Friday, 06 October 2017 17:53
All Change at Top as “Survival” Conditions Challenge Racers
Gusty Mistral winds played to the strengths of French kitefoil racer Nico Parlier when he seized pole position on the leaderboard with a perfect three bullets that left rivals struggling to match his pace in the punchy conditions. Overnight leader Axel Mazella (FRA) had already reconciled himself to the fact that the second day of competition at the Sardinia Kiteboard Grand Slam would be Parlier’s when he saw the forecast breezes. Yet Mazella still gave Parlier a run for his money, harrying his countryman around the two-and-a-half laps of the windward-leeward course in offshore winds that quickly built to an…
Thursday, 05 October 2017 22:27
Tricky Day for Front-Runners in Testing and Fickle Breezes
None of the favourites to take the IKA KiteFoil World Championship title had it all their own in the opening exchanges on sparkling blue Mediterranean waters off the Italian island of Sardinia. In a surprise upset to the form books, France’s Axel Mazella scored bullets in the first two races, holding countryman Nico Parlier at bay and pushing him into unfamiliar second spots on each occasion as the shifty breezes vexed the entire fleet. Yet in the opening day’s third and final race both Frenchmen—arguably the fastest racers in the fleet—came unstuck. Each separately tangled with other riders and had…
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