This past weekend saw over 200 SUP racers, professional and amateur, descend on the Lake Annecy in Talloires, France for the 2021 French Paddleboard Championships. German Dream Team rider Sonni Hönscheid took the win on the Women’s Elite category while New Caledonian rising star Clément Colmas battle it out with fellow French riders to finish…
Yesterday was a day to remember as we witnessed the return to the EuroTour and SUP racing season with the Vendée Glisse Event 2020, after several months hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the highlights by SteffVideo Production where Olivia Piana and Noic Garioud took the respective wins on SUP, while Starboard Dream Team…
Congratulations to Maddi Leblanc for completing the 2020 Virtual Molokai 2 Oahu Challenge! The Molokai 2 Oahu Paddleboard World Championships in Hawaii had been cancelled for 2020 due to the COVID 19 Global crisis. This year (July 24-26th), they offered a virtual community paddling event where anyone could take part in any craft they wanted…
Starboard Dream Team rider Espe Barreras wins the Downwind Race Cantabria, in Spain, her first race back for the 2020 season. Espe put on a sterling performance on her All Star to not only take the win in the women’s field but also finished in a remarkable 3rd place overall. This is a great start…
Starboard’s Dream Team riders earned a triple gold this past weekend at the APP World Tour’s SUP Paris Crossing, the biggest mass participation SUP event in the world which took place in conjunction with the Nautic Paris Boat Show. In the Long Distance race, we witnessed Fiona Wylde out paddle her competitors to take the…
1. The venue The ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship will take place in El Salvador for the first time in the event’s eight-year history. El Sunzal will take center stage during the World Championship, a magnet for picking up southern hemisphere swell. The cobblestone point provides long waves with open faces that will play…
Missed the action from the recent 2019 ICF SUP World Championships that took place in Qingdao, China? You can rewatch all the live feed stream here: Wednesday, 23rd October 2019: Pre Event Interview with Connor Baxter & Fiona Wylde Friday, 25th October 2019: Long Distance Events Saturday, 26th…
The annual Singapore Ocean Cup starts at the famous Sentosa Beach, host of many of the world best beach clubs, where paddlers will race around Singapore’s Southern Islands & navigating through the Singapore Channel, one of the busiest shipping routes of the World! Crews will be met with surprising water conditions and currents that will…
The Krumlovsky Marathon is the biggest river marathon in the Czech Republic and is held on the top section of Vltava river. 1700 competitors racing in approximately 700 crafts divided into 32 categories took part in this years 2019 edition. The race was originally founded in 2002 with SUP category being only added later in…
Daniel Hasulyo jetted over to Korea to take part in the 2019 Seoul City SUP Race this past weekend, where the Dream Team rider went on to win both the Long Distance and the Sprint events. The combined results meant he also won the overall title. Daniel’s girlfriend Sai also joined him for the trip…
The beautiful City of Osaka played host to the World’s very best Stand Up Paddle Athletes this past weekend, as the 2019 Osaka SUP Open Long Distance (LD) Race events took center stage on Sunday 22nd September. Day 2 kicked off bright and early in Osaka with the ‘Around the Island’ Race that would see…
Red Bull Heavy Water, a highlight on the Pro Stand Up Paddleboard circuit, is headed back to San Francisco after weather condition requirements were not met at last years event. The City by the Bay will host the event as part of the 2019 APP World Tour circuit, with an event window from October 15th…
Paddle boarding’s ultimate endurance athlete, Bart de Zwart, is back at it again. This past weekend saw the Starboard SUP team rider tackle yet another gruelling SUP 11-City Challenge, completing the 220km non-stop tour around Holland to finish 2nd behind Niek van de Linde, in an impressive 26hrs and 18mins. Completing this years non-stop SUP…
The 2019 Hong Kong International SUP Challenge took place in beautiful Sai Kung Peninsula, and despite the current political tensions in Hong Kong, the event ran smoothly with all riders having a great time and challenging themselves in the gruelling 18km in hot and muid conditions. Bangkok based Starboard Team rider, Daniel Hasulyo, grabbed his…
The 2019 Gorge Paddle Challenge was an exciting race with many of the top paddleboard athletes from around the world battling it out for top podium spots and a very well supported open division. As normal, it was a two-day event that consisted of a Double Downwinder on Saturday and a Technical Course race on…
The 2019 Pan American Games is an event that made history for Stand Up Paddling and Surfing and is forever engraved in my mind. For the people that aren’t familiar with this event – it’s a mini Olympics that happens every 4 years that’s always one year before the Olympic Games, but it’s only for…
What an epic Ka’iwi crossing for this year’s Moloka’i To Oahu World Championships! The winds and swell were cranking and record times were broken in more than 1 category. I finished in 3 hours and 7 minutes from the west end of Moloka’i to Hawai’i Kai, O’ahu! Prepping for the race I rigged my Starboard 5’0 Hyper…
This past weekend was the Canadian Downwind Championships in Squamish, BC. Location was absolutely gorgeous, the Squamish fjord winds back into a glacial valley north of the city of Vancouver and dead-ends with the huge Squamish Cheif rock mass looming over the water. The wind is funnelled through the fjord and builds as you get…
They’ve done it again! Starboard SUP Dream Team riders Michael Booth (Aus) and Fiona Wylde (USA) have taken another double 1st place podium at the weekend’s EuroTour event ~ 2019 Agios Nikolaos on SUP Race. The 13th stop of the EuroTour took place in Agios Nikolaos, Crete from June 22-23rd. On its fifth edition, and…
Current Ultimate Water and Starboard team rider, Zane Schweitzer, has taken out the 2019 USA National Championship Titles in both the SUP Surf & Tech Surf Race disciplines. The 2 x USA SUP National Champion gives us a recap of how the weekend’s events went down: Day 2 – 2019 Surfing America Nationational Championship…
