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International Kiteboarding Association#Wave Riding

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The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA),{{cite web |url=https://www.surfertoday.com/kiteboarding/wave-kiteboarding-gets-new-tour-and-ranking-system |title=Wave kiteboarding gets new tour and ranking system |website=SurferToday.com |access-date=27 November 2019 |archive-date=27 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191127220308/https://www.surfertoday.com/kiteboarding/wave-kiteboarding-gets-new-tour-and-ranking-system |url-status=dead }} is the only kiteboarding class inside the International Sailing Federation (ISAF).{{Cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/classes/IKA.php |title=ISAF : Kiteboarding |website=Sailing.org |access-date=25 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301070049/http://www.sailing.org/classes/IKA.php |archive-date=1 March 2011 |url-status=dead}} The IKA class rules fall in the category of a development class.

History

The International Kiteboarding Association was founded in April 2008 by Guillaume Fournier (two-time kiteboarding world champion), after the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) had included the principle of surfers being propelled by a kite in the 'ISAF Equipment Rules of Sailing'.{{cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/documents/isaf-equipment-rules.php |title=ISAF Equipment Rules of Sailing |website=Sailing.org}} Kiteboarding was adopted in November 2008 as an ISAF international sailing class. An Executive Committee is re-appointed by the class AGM. The duties of the Executive Committee are to take care of the day-to-day business of the association, and to coordinate submissions from the sub-committees.

Executives

The Executive Committee is:

  • Chairman: Richard Gowers (GBR)
  • Vice-chairman: Bruno De Wannemaeker (BEL)
  • Executive Secretary: Markus Schwendtner (GER)
  • Head of Communications and Public Affairs: Diego Massimiliano De Giorgi (ITA).
  • Board members: Mirco Babini (ITA), Olivier Mouragues (FRA), Adam Szymanski (POL) and John Gomes (USA).

Disciplines

There are five disciplines with individual world rankings and world championships.{{Cite web |url=http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97&Itemid=51 |title=The International Kiteboarding Association | Disciplines |website=InternationalKiteboarding.org |access-date=25 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217013521/http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=97&Itemid=51 |archive-date=17 February 2011 |url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |title=Kitesurfing Lessons - Learn to Kitesurf |url=https://ridekitesurfing.com.au/pages/kitesurfing-lessons-adelaide |access-date=2024-12-03 |language=en}}

  • Course Racing (comparable to standard sailing regattas)
  • Freestyle (where performance is judged on individual expression and difficulty of tricks)
  • Kite Cross (riders compete in heats against each other, with the winners advancing to the next round)
  • Wave Riding (where performance is judged on wave selection and performance of manoeuvres on the wave)
  • Speed (with performance measured by the average speed over a fixed distance, usually 500 m)

Classes

The IKA is responsible for the management of the following World Sailing kiteboarding classes:{{cite web |url=https://www.kiteclasses.org/about/what-is-the-ika |title=What is the IKA - The Official Website of The International Kiteboarding Association |website=KiteClasses.org |access-date=25 October 2022}}

Class growth

Around 30 national kite class associations are affiliated to the International Kiteboarding Association and active fleets exist in more than 65 countries.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sailing.org/classes/31811.php |title=ISAF : Class Reports - IKA |website=Sailing.org |access-date=25 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302192220/http://www.sailing.org/classes/31811.php |archive-date=2 March 2011 |url-status=dead}}

Championships

Class Championships are run as 'one-off' competitions in the racing disciplines course racing, kite cross and speed, and as series of events for the expression disciplines freestyle and wave riding.

Tours

Professional Tour Operators exist that organize series of sanctioned events. These are:

  • PKRA: Series of events in freestyle, course racing and wave riding{{cite web |url=http://www.prokitetour.com/ |title=Kite World Tour - PKRA |website=Prokitetour.com |accessdate=8 September 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120908075045/http://www.prokitetour.com/ |archive-date=8 September 2012}}
  • KTE: European Freestyle Championship Series, also providing course racing events{{cite web |url=http://www.kitesurftour.eu/ |title=Home |website=kitesurftour.eu}}
  • KTA: Asian Freestyle Championship Series, also offering disciplines like Old School and Twin Tip Racing{{cite web |url=http://www.kiteboardtour.asia/ |title=Home |website=kiteboardtour.asia}}
  • KSP: Series of events in wave riding{{Cite web |url=http://www.kspworldtour.com/ |title=KSP World Tour |website=kspworldtour.com |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115054142/http://kspworldtour.com/ |archive-date=2013-01-15 |url-status=dead}}

Champions

=Freestyle=

  • 2021:{{cite web |url=https://www.gkakiteworldtour.com/rankings-2021/?discipline=freestyle |title=Rankings 2021 |website=gkakiteworldtour.com |publisher=GKA Kite World Tour}} Arthur Guillebert (FRA) & Mikaili Sol (BRA)
  • 2019:{{cite web |url=https://www.gkakiteworldtour.com/rankings-2019/?discipline=freestyle |title=Rankings 2019 |website=gkakiteworldtour.com |publisher=GKA Kite World Tour}} Valentin Rodriguez (COL) & Mikaili Sol (BRA)
  • 2018:{{cite web |url=https://www.gkakiteworldtour.com/rankings-2018/?discipline=freestyle |title=Rankings 2018 |website=gkakiteworldtour.com |publisher=GKA Kite World Tour}} Carlos Mario (BRA) & Mikaili Sol (BRA)
  • 2015: Liam Whaley (ES) & Gisela Pulido (ES)
  • 2014: Christophe Tack (BE) & Karolina Winkowska (POL)
  • 2013: Alex Pastor (ES) & Gisela Pulido (ES)
  • 2012: Youri Zoon (NED) & Karolina Winkowska (POL)
  • 2011: Youri Zoon (NED) & Gisela Pulido (ES)
  • 2010: Andy Yates (AUS) and Gisela Pulido (ES)
  • 2009: Kevin Langeree (NED) and Bruna Kayija (BRA){{Cite web |url=http://surfforum.oase.com/showthread.php?t=84180 |title=PKRA World Champions 2009: Kevin Langeree und Bruna Kajiya - [oase.com-Forum] |website=SurfForum.oase.com}}
  • 2008: Aaron Hadlow (UK) & Gisela Pulido (ES)
  • 2007: Aaron Hadlow (UK) & Gisela Pulido (ES)
  • 2006: Aaron Hadlow (UK)
  • 2005: Aaron Hadlow (UK)
  • 2005: Aaron Hadlow (UK)

=Course racing=

  • 2013: Florian Gruber and Erika Heineken (USA){{Cite web |title=2013 IKA Kiteboard Course Race Worlds- Winners crowned in China |url=https://www.sail-world.com/Australia/2013-IKA-Kiteboard-Course-Race-Worlds-Winners-crowned-in-China/-117030?source=google |access-date=2024-11-26 |website=www.sail-world.com}}
  • 2012: John Heineken{{cite web |url=http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org/images/documents/results/2012racingworldsmen.pdf |title=2012 IKA Course Racing World Championship |website=InternationalKiteboarding.org}}(USA) and Erika Heineken (USA){{cite web |url=http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org/images/documents/results/2012racingworldswomen.pdf |title=2012 IKA Course Racing Women World Championship |website=InternationalKiteboarding.org}}
  • 2011: John Heineken (USA)and Steph Bridge (GBR){{cite web |url=http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org/images/documents/results/2011racingworlds.pdf |title=2011 IKA Kite Course Racing World Championships |website=InternationalKiteboarding.org}}
  • 2010: Adam Koch (USA) and Kari Schibevaag (NOR){{Cite web |url=http://www.regattanetwork.com/clubmgmt/applet_regatta_results.php?regatta_id=2696&show_divisions=1 |title=2010 IKA Course Racing World Championship - Series Standing |website=regattanetwork.com}}
  • 2009: Sean Farley (MEX) and Steph Bridge (GBR)

=Speed=

  • 2009 : Alexandre Caizergues (FRA) and Melissa Gil (PUE)

=Wave riding=

  • 2012: Keahi De Aboitiz (AUS) and Jalou Langeree (NED){{Cite web |url=http://www.kspworldtour.com/index.php/2-column/294-fantasy-ksp-winners-announced-following-world-tour-finals-on-maui.html |title=Fantasy KSP Winners Announced Following World Tour Finals on Maui |access-date=2013-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130115200650/http://kspworldtour.com/index.php/2-column/294-fantasy-ksp-winners-announced-following-world-tour-finals-on-maui.html |archive-date=2013-01-15 |url-status=dead}}
  • 2011: Airton Cozzolino (ITA) and Ines Correia (POR){{Cite web |url=http://www.kspworldtour.com/index.php/riders/ranking-2011.html |title=2011 Rankings |website=kspworldtour.com |access-date=7 January 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130107132537/http://www.kspworldtour.com/index.php/riders/ranking-2011.html |archive-date=7 January 2013 |url-status=dead}}
  • 2010: Guilly Brandao (BRA) and Gisela Pulido (ESP)
  • 2009: Jan Marcos Rivieras (DOM) and Kari Schibevaag (NOR)
  • 2008: Mitu Monteiro (CV)

Records

French kiteboarder Sebastien Cattelan became the first sailor to break the 50 knots barrier by reaching 50.26 knots on 3 October 2008 at the Lüderitz Speed Challenge in Namibia.{{Cite web |url=http://www.sail-world.com/Australia/Fifty-knots-broken-again---New-Speed-Record/49448 |title=Fifty knots broken again - New Speed Record |website=sail-world.com}} Earlier in the event, on 19 September, American Rob Douglas reached 49.84 knots (92.30 km/h),http://www.luderitz-speed.com/ContentPages/Results/Results.aspx?Filter=Overall&Session=3&Run=19 September 2008{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} becoming the first kitesurfer to establish an outright world record in speed sailing. Previously the record was held only by sailboats or windsurfers.

The outright sailing speed record has since been claimed by the French trimaran Hydroptère which, on 4 September 2009, reached a speed of 51.36 knots over 500 meters and 50.17 over a nautical mile in open ocean and only 25 to 30 knots of wind.{{cite web |url=http://www.hydroptere.com/_en/actu_detail.php?id_actu=57#centre |title=l'Hydroptère |website=hydroptere.com |access-date=25 February 2011 |archive-date=24 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100824003831/http://www.hydroptere.com/_en/actu_detail.php?id_actu=57#centre |url-status=usurped }}

In October 2010, Rob Douglas became the outright speed world record holder on water powered by the wind with 55.65 knots, exceeding the previous record by more than four knots.{{cite web |url=http://www.sailspeedrecords.com/500-metre-records.html |title=500 Metre Records |website=SailSpeedRecords.com |access-date=7 March 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110303233239/http://www.sailspeedrecords.com/500-metre-records.html |archive-date=3 March 2011}}

References

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External links

  • {{Official website|https://www.kiteclasses.org/|KiteClasses.org - current official website}}
  • {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191217231600/http://www.internationalkiteboarding.org:80/ |title=InternationalKiteboarding.org - former official website |date=dmy}}
  • {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301070049/http://www.sailing.org/classes/IKA.php |title=IKA class page at the International Sailing Federation |date=dmy}}

=National Class associations=

  • [http://www.kitesurf.org.ar/ Associacion Argentina de Kite]
  • [http://www.a-k-a.info/ Austrian Kiteboarding Association]
  • [http://www.babc.be/ Belgium Association of Boardriding Competitors]
  • [http://www.abk.com.br/ Associaciao Brsileira de Kitesurf]
  • [http://www.hjs.hr/ Croatian Kiteboarding Class Association]
  • [http://www.rfev.es/ Associacion Espaniola de Kitesurf]
  • [http://kite.ffvl.fr/ Association Francais de la Classe Kite]
  • {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110302152739/http://www.britishkitesurfingassociation.co.uk/ |title=British Kitesurfing Association |date=dmy}}
  • [http://www.gka-online.de/ German Kiteboarding Association]
  • [http://www.hkkf.org/ Hongkong Kiteboarding Federation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101194338/http://www.hkkf.org/ |date=1 January 2019 }}
  • [http://www.gals.md/ Kiteboarding Association of Moldavia]
  • [http://www.kitemexico.org/ Associacion Mexicana de Kitesurf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017130306/http://www.kitemexico.org/ |date=17 October 2021 }}
  • [http://www.pskite.pl/ Polskie Stowarzyszenie Kiteboardingu]
  • [http://www.apkite.pt/ Associacio Portuguesa de Kite]
  • {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221080206/http://www.thekftz.com/ |title=Kitesurf Federation Tanzania Sansibar |date=dmy}}

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