Today was the first day of the fantastic event CAMPOFRIO VIANA FW 2014. Some competitor´s start to arrive since Wednesday this week, to be relaxed for the event and also to know better the place, normally in this time of the year in Viana is sunshine and wind from NW, that is very good and is a clean wind.
The 2014 Formula Windsurfing Iberian Cup will be hosted in Viana do Castelo, a municipality and seat of the district of Viana do Castelo in the Norte Region of Portugal.
Janis Preiss (LAT-23) is declared the 2014 Formula Windsurfing Masters World Champion and also the 2014 Gallipoli Formula European Cup Champion. Karl-Erik Saarm (EST-228) is 2014 Formula Windsurfing Youth World Champion.
This was the first event of our season here in Greece. Xalkoutsi Bay in the gulf of Evia, northern Attika, is one of the most consistent Formula windsurfing locations in Greece.
Back to back events will be hosted in Croatia during the late summer of this year.
Three days in Pirita Beach, Tallinn lasted an international wind- and kitesurfing regatta NeilPryde Baltic Cup Estonia, which was attended by 86 surfers from five countries, reached its peak on Sunday. Overwhelming victories took Latvian Janis Preiss in Formula class and Viktoras Šeputa in Formula Kite class.
An international wind- and kitesurfing regatta NeilPryde Baltic Cup Estonia, which started in Tallinn on Friday, continued on Saturday in strong and shifty winds. The class leaders strengthened their positions in the first place and on the other podium positions the name of the game was shuffling the cards.
The first races of the International wind- and kitesurfing regatta NeilPryde Baltic Cup were held on Friday in Pirita, Tallinn. This is the 4th Act of the European Cup 2014, the 2nd Act of NeilPryde Baltic Cup for Formula windsurfing, and, last but not least, one stage of the Estonian Yachting Union’s Olympic Sailing Estonian Cup. For three days the event will bring together 87 athletes from Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia.
From 12th to 15th of June 2014 in Tallinn, from Pirita beach will take place a high level windsurfing and kitesurfing regatta.
Congratulations to Janis Preiss (LAT-23) for his victory!
At 1pm the AP flag was finally lowered but as the riders started sailing towards racing area the wind dropped again.
21 Formula riders found their ways to European Cup event in the best windsurfing beach of Finland.