Chris Benz Luderitz Speed Challenge - Week 2
by Sophie Routaboul 20 Oct 2015 23:11 BST
20 October 2015
This week, we saw Antoine Albeau, the 22 times World Champion in Windsurfing and actual Record Holder in speed, joining the competitors with Mitch Wagstaff from South Africa and the German windsurfer Christian Benzing, one of the main sponsors.
One race day has been achieved as the conditions have been moderate for Lüderitz.
It has allowed riders to fine tune their equipment to achieve fast speeds by using all the elements; equipment, skill, technique, master the channel and available winds.
Heidi Ulrich from Switzerland has however improved her Personal Best with 37.21 kts and has showed improvements along her 1st participation in the Chris Benz Lüderitz Speed Challenge 2015.
Week 2 last day's wind forecast played around with the organisation of the event a bit, we decided to open but only managed to do a few runs before there was not enough wind, eventually closing the event for the day.
We are sad to see some riders leaving; the Swiss Remo Diethelm and Heidi Ulrich, the Czech Republic riders Martin Toth and Martin Hulinsky, Alexander Goncharov from Ukraine and the 2 French Kitesurfers Sylvain Hoceini and Sébastien Salerno.
But we are happy to welcome the French windsurfers; Thierry Bielak, Yann Coadic, Jim Cloarec, Christophe Richaud, Christian Maillet, Laurent Fesquet, Pierre Blasini and the British Champion Farrel O'Shea.
Sunday night's ceremony gathered the riders to celebrate a few new records and personal bests. Lucky draw winner Sylvian Hoceini, gets to go back home to France with a Namibian diamond.
This World Record Attempt has still 4 weeks to go and should allow riders to achieve more records and Personal Bests in stronger winds.
We are looking forward to get good winds on Wednesday and watch all the new riders (Week 3) to do their best possible speeds at the 2015 CHRIS BENZ Lüderitz Speed Challenge event.
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