2025 Windsurfing Formula Foil World Championships at Circolo Surf Torbole - Days 1 & 2
by Elena Giolai 11 Sep 2025 18:51 BST
10-13 September 2025
2025 Windsurfing Formula Foil World Championships - Day 1 © Elena Giolai
After two years, the Windsurfing Formula Foil World Championships have returned to Circolo Surf Torbole, bringing the champions of the discipline back to the waters of Lake Garda - Trentino.
The event, organized under the authority of the Italian Sailing Federation (FIV), is part of an intense September for the Club, which has just hosted the Italian Youth Sailing Championships - singlehanded, Kinder Joy of Moving, and once again confirms the Trentino club's commitment to staging back-to-back, high-profile international events on Lake Garda.
The championship opened yesterday, September 10, with cloudy skies, a northerly wind, and three races completed. Today, however, Lake Garda showed its best side: with sunshine and a steady southerly wind of 15-18 knots, no fewer than six races were completed, with a break ashore after the first three before resuming competition in the afternoon. After two days and nine races in total, Germany's Wolf leads with a solid 16-point margin. Behind him is Denmark's Frederic Ramsgaard, who managed to recover after a difficult start on the opening day, and Switzerland's Justas Katkus, sitting in third just four points behind the Dane.
Excellent performance from Davide Scarlata, representing Circolo Surf Torbole, who currently leads the junior rankingand is the top Italian overall. Among the other categories, Germany's Levi Suemmchen tops the youth ranking, while Poland's Laura Urbanski is the leading woman.
The Formula Foil fleet will be back on the water tomorrow morning at 9:00 am, with the aim of completing three more races in northerly winds, followed - conditions permitting - by another three races in the afternoon Ora breeze, for a potential total of six further heats. Circolo Surf Torbole thus reaffirms itself as a true hub of windsurfing on Lake Garda - Trentino, offering flawless organization and logistics in a season marked by major international sporting events, which will continue in October with the IFCA Slalom Fin & Foil European Championships.