KITEBOARD RACING WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP – CAGLIARI – 2 TO 7 OCTOBER

They’re coming from all over the world that the protagonists October 2 to 7 will battle for the World Championship at Poetto absolute kiteboard in the new Olympic class of the race.

Among them is also famous names and former Olympic medal for windsurfing.

The championship, organized by the Yacht Club Cagliari, has become very important in the world, after the recent decision of ISAF (International Sailing Federation), the highest body of the sail has decided to enter the kite to the next Olympics in Brazil in the discipline of racing.

Since this is the first of four Olympic world, the various associations are doing transmigrate many former champions to the sport of windsurfing and kite-the wing which moves the table. Especially as technicians and managers.

Chris Sieber, the Viennese gold medal at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, will reach 30 in the Sardinian capital at the head of the Austrian team.

Mike Gebbhart, bronze medalist in Seoul in ’88 and silver in Barcelona in ’92, comes in Cagliari tomorrow, as well as lead the U.S. team, will play together with the CRO (Chief Race Officer) Mirco Babini, during the week, one stage on the improved techniques of racing for several international athletes.

But the biggest name in the world of windsurfing, now devoted to the kite, is perhaps one of Alex Aguera, the leading champion for fifteen years behind the World Cup windsurfing Robby Naish and Bjorn Dunkerbeck, since 2000, since the first athletic competitions, is dedicated to kitesurfing as contest director of the PKRA World Tour.

Aguera, Sardinia back in 32 years after winning the World Cup in Baia Sardinia team Windsurfer, as shaper (manufacturer) of one of the best tables in kite racing.

Meanwhile, enrollment reached a record number of 208 members, and the program has two fields with spectacular race close to shore in the Gulf of angels, with the base area that will extend from the sixth stop at the old hospital Marino.

TUESDAY ‘2 in the presentation program and gauging.

Each athlete will have a table and 3 WINGS WITH A POSSIBLE FOURTH measured in ACCORDING TO THE TERMS OF THE WIND IF IT WERE OVER 25 KNOTS.

WEDNESDAY three first races TEST AND THURSDAY 4 BEFORE OFFICIAL RACE CHAMPIONSHIP.

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