Monday, 04 December 2017 07:57
Youth World Champions Crowned in Barra Grande, the Windy Paradise on the Way to YOG 2018
It was rather complicated to get to Barra Grande for everyone involved in the 2017 TT:R Youth Slalom World Championships but the stakes were high and 54 young kiteboarders from 11 countries went into the adventure of traveling to the paradise like beach on the north corner of Brazil to battle for the world championship title, get some valuable practice and experience in the Youth Olympic Games format and earn extra berths for their country in the YOG qualifying events in early 2018. Barra Grande rewarded them with warm strong winds on a golden sandy beach and an excellent event…
Wednesday, 04 October 2017 23:27
2017 TT:R Slalom Youth World Championships Barra Grande, Brazil - Youth Olympic Games Qualification
The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) has opened registration for the 2017 TT:R Youth Slalom World Championships in Brazil.The quota allocation for the Youth Olympic Games qualification events (the maximum number of entries per country) will be based on the results of this 2017 Youth World Championships.Event Location: Barra Grande, BrasilDates: 26 November - 1 December 2017Maximum quota per gender and country: 10 entriesNotice of Race: clickHEREYOG Qualification events Notice of Race: clickHEREEntries are limited to a maximum of 10 competitors per country per gender (10 boys, 10 girls). Only competitors born in 1999 and later are eligible to compete.Entries will…
Sunday, 01 October 2017 16:00
Registered Series Production Equipment Lists for the Youth Olympic Games published
The Registered Series Production Equipment lists for boards and kites that may be used at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games and the 2018 qualification events have been published on the TwinTip:Racing class website. The full lists can be found here: Registered Series Production Boards (eligible for YOG) Registered Series Production Kites (eligible for YOG) New board registrations include: Axis (Limited 140) Cabrinha (Stylus 150/160, Tronic 137/141/149) FT Design (Giopyx 140) F-One (Trax HRD Carbon 136/137) Nobile (2HD 134, T5 134/140) North (Jaime Textreme 139/142, Spike Textreme 144) Upeksha (Gawa 163/166) New kite registrations include: Airush Vantage (7-19) Cabrinha Contra (13-19)…
Sunday, 24 September 2017 09:28
Champions Crowned at First Twin-Tip Slalom Racing Worlds
Germany’s Florian Gruber maintained his composure to see off challenges that could until the last race have derailed his bid for the inaugural International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) TT:R World Championship slalom title in China. In clinching victory on the final day of competition in Pingtan, Gruber made it back-to-back TT:R world titles after seizing the twin-tip course racing crown in Weifang, China, a year ago. But to ensure victory in Pingtan on the fifth day of competition Gruber—who began the day equal top on points with three other riders—knew he could not afford to put a foot wrong with European…
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Friday, 22 September 2017 18:46
Pack Reshuffled in Topsy Turvy Twin-Tip Racing
The drama promised by Twin-Tip: Racing at the inaugural International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) Worlds in China delivered in spades when several of the favourites were knocked off their perches. With the return of Pingtan Island’s normally predictable winds that went largely missing for three days, both the men’s and women’s leaders found themselves pushed down the leaderboard but remain in the hunt going into the final day. Only the leader of the Boys’ U-19 division, Tiger Tyson (ANT), strengthened his hold on the top spot with a gritty performance in the second elimination final when he seized an unlikely victory,…
Tuesday, 19 September 2017 18:15
High-Octane Racing as Top Riders Vie for Inaugural World Title
The opening skirmishes at the first TwinTip:Racing (TT:R) World Championships in eastern China lived up to the fast-emerging kite discipline’s deserved reputation for excitement and drama. In no time at all, on the opening day of five, the leading women were scrapping for any small advantage in the intense, short downwind races and several of the leading contenders tangled fuelling competing pleas for justice to the on-shore umpires. But the appeals were the exception rather than the rule at the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) TT:R World Championships being staged on the ideal natural arena off Pingtan Island’s beach in conditions…
Saturday, 16 September 2017 09:50
Winners Crowned at TwinTip Racing Open in China
The winners of the International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) Twin-Tip Open in China were crowned at an exuberant closing ceremony after an event that offered a total of €10,000 prize money. Britain’s Olly Bridge took the victory in the Men’s division, seeing off challenges from the French duo of Julien Kerneur and Theo de Ramecourt, who claimed the second and third spots respectively on the podium. Perhaps the biggest upset was that Croatian Martin Dolenc, 17, who took the title at the TT:R Slalom Europeans in southern Italy in July, could only place ninth overall after failing to make the final.…
Friday, 25 August 2017 11:31
Youth Olympic Games Kiteboard Qualification Events open pre-registration
The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) has published the Notice of Race for the four qualification events in which riders have two chances each to qualify for the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018. The first of the three continental qualification events will be held in Cabarete, Dominican Republic, from January 15 to 20, 2018 followed by events in Dakhla (Morocco) and Pranburi (Thailand). Competitors can request entry now for their continental qualification event. As all events have a strict quota of a maximum of 3 riders per country (per gender) and up to a total of 56 riders…
Sunday, 16 July 2017 23:50
Fresh Faces Crowned at 2017 Europeans to Cap a Thrilling Competition
A clutch of new young stars, most of them kiteboard racing novices, were crowned at the finale of the first TwinTip: Racing Europeans in southern Italy after almost a week of high-intensity action in the new discipline. But the competition that was marked by thrilling drama in near-perfect conditions ended with a whimper when the clockwork-like wind went missing on the final fifth day of the 2017 International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) TT:R European Championship. Until the last minute race officials tried to squeeze in a few more heats, but the little breeze that came remained stubbornly unstable and largely below…
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