WAntoine Albeau is a French windsurfer who holds twenty-four Windsurfing World Championships in different disciplines since 1994.
WCasper Bouman is a windsurfer from the Netherlands. Bouman represented his country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao. Bouman took 15th place on the Men's RS:X.
WPete Cabrinha is an American big-wave surfer, windsurfer, kitesurfer and artist. He is the founder and brand manager of Cabrinha Kites.
WRicardo Campello is a Brazilian-born professional windsurfer. He began windsurfing after moving to Venezuela, quickly progressing to become three-time world freestyle champion in 2003, 2004 and 2005.
WThe 1988 Olympics, saw the introduction of Lechner Division II boards. The Division II class used a 6.5 m sail and were round bottomed boards designed for upwind sailing in light to moderate winds.
WBjörn Dunkerbeck is a professional windsurfer who has won the Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) Overall World Championships a record 41 times.
WÇağla Kubat is a Turkish model, actress and windsurfer who is member of Fenerbahçe sailing & windsurfing team. She is 5 feet 10¾ (1.80m) tall.
WLand windsurfing, also known as “Terrasailing”, “street sailing”, “land sailing” and “dirt windsurfing”, is a sport similar to traditional windsurfing that is performed on land rather than water. A four wheeled deck, similar to a mountain board or skateboard deck, is commonly used in conjunction with a mast and sail in order to project the board across land.
WFinian Maynard is a six-time speed windsurfing world champion and held the absolute 500m sailing speed record for all sailing vessels from late 2004 until early 2008.
WThe Mistral One Design Class (MOD) was a windsurfing class chosen by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) for use at the Olympic Regatta in Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004. Since the 2008 Summer Olympics, the RS:X class is used for the Olympic competitions.
WPiotr Myszka is a Polish windsurfer. He won the Gold medal at the 2010 RS:X Windsurfing World Championships and at the 2016 RS:X Windsurfing World Championships.
WYoav Omer is an Israeli windsurfer.
WFarrel O'Shea is a former professional windsurfer. He holds the British speed sailing record for all sail powered craft, as recognised by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
WDorian van Rijsselberghe is a sailor (windsurfer) from the Netherlands.
WWindsurfing has been one of the Olympic sailing events at the Summer Olympics since 1984 for men and 1992 for women. All sailors use the same One Design boards, daggerboards, fins and sails. The equipment is chosen to allow racing in a wide range of sailing conditions, as during the Olympic Games events must take place as scheduled whether or not there is enough wind for planing.
WNiklas Stråhlén was born and raised in Gothenburg, Sweden, and has competed in windsurfing on a professional level since 2006. In 2009 he was ranked fifth in Europe at the European Freestyle Pro Tour.
WThe Techno 293 is a development of the Aloha class and is primarily for the youth windsurfing class. The class is recognised by the International Sailing Federation. The design was chosen to be the windsurfer for the Youth Olympic Games. It is normally used as a preceding step to the Olympic class RS:X.
WThe Tiree Wave Classic is the UK's premier windsurfing competition. Run in recent years by Glasgow-based events company Dialogue Marketing headed up by Andy Groom, it takes place each October on the island of Tiree on the west coast of Scotland.
WKrišjānis Tūtāns is a windsurfing celebrity from Latvia, who entered the sport at the age of 13. His father Uldis Tūtāns was one of the windsurfing pioneers in Latvia, and under his influence the whole family became involved with windsurfing. Krišjānis's sister Gundega Tūtāne is one of the best Latvian female windsurfers in wave class.
WFor the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, the Olympic board choice was between the original Windsurfer One Design manufactured by Hoyle Schwitzer and the Windglider designed and made in Europe. The Windglider was chosen late in 1983 based on it being more 'one design' as the Windsurfer was made of polyethylene and its rocker could be easily changed with heat and weight on a daily basis.
WA windsurfing harness is part of the trapeze used in the sports of windsurfing and kitesurfing to connect the rider to the rig by a line attached to the boom or kitesurfing bar. It consists of a girdle-like contraption that is worn around the body, with a hook for attachment. Hooking-in the harness is done by pulling the sail toward the body and hooking into the harness lines on the boom. The harness turns windsurfing into a long lasting activity, taking the weight of the sail off the arms of the windsurfer.