Bart wins the second ultra endurance race of his 2016 season in Missouri, USA at the MR340, a 547 km race (or 340 miles hence the name) along the Missouri river crossing major US cities starting in Kansas City and finishing in Saint Charles near Saint Louis. Bart also set the new record for the…
The 40th anual San Clemente Ocean Festival took place last weekend where young Izzi Gomez Starboard Dream Team rider, 2 times and defending SUP Surf profesional tour World Champion and also defending ISA World Champion in waves won the SUP Surf contest on the first day of competition amongst a field of 12 women participating.…
Starboard Dream Team rider Connor Baxter does it again in the famous downwind race between the islands of Maui and Molokai in Hawai for a seventh year in a row and also ever since the event began. Connor arrived with almost a two minutes advantage over Australian Travis Grant managing for the second time ever…
Leonard Nika already had the most wins on the 2016 Eurotour after his third win in Finland last week. He just bettered that record with another event win this last weekend in his homeland during the Noli SUP Race on the Northern West coast of Italy close to Genova. Congratulations also to French Starboard riders…
Starboard domination continued last weekend in Sieravuori, Finland during week 10 of the Eurotour presented by the Tiki brand with the third event win of Leonard Nika, the Italian Dream Team rider. Leo is the only male athlete with three wins in the Eurotour (Portugal, Greece and Finland), placing him in fourth position on the…
The EURO Tour 2016 presented by Starboard continues on in Europe and last weekend saw stop number 9 head for Marathon in Greece. The Starboard domination also continues, this time with Starboard Dream Team Rider Leonard Nika from Italy taking first place with a gap of over a minute over Frenchman Eric Terrien in the…
We just received at Starboard HQ this complete Recap by Bart de Zwart after his incredible win in the first ever SUP participation in the Yukon River Quest, an ultra resistance race through the Canadian wilderness. Enjoy: “Just got back to internet country last night. Now flying back to Maui, so no early race update.…
After a successful launch on World Oceans Day and joining the Starboard SW Tiki Tour across California, Arizona & New Mexico, the SUPKids team are heading to Noli, Italy to run the first European SUPKids training program. They’ll be joining forces with the Noli SUP Race to run a 2 day training program for the…
The Yukon River Quest’s distance of 715 km or 444 miles makes it the longest paddle race in the world without a doubt. For the first time this year open to stand up paddlers alongside the canoe and kayak competitors who have enjoyed (or endured) it for years, 11 brave sup paddlers registered to participate.…
Every year the Stand up for the Cure event seems to get bigger and bigger. It is great to see such an awesome amount of support from paddlers all over the globe. Starboard Team Rider and Cure ambassador, Zane Schweitzer, was on hand again in Newport, CA for this years event and as he paddled…
