LA PALME SPEED UPDATE
LA PALME SPEED UPDATE
LA PALME SPEED UPDATE
Plage du Rouet, La Palme keeps on giving. With new riders like Rob Douglas from the USA and Roger Ornvang from Sweden arriving for the wind. Records were going to go. Pete Davis gives us the latest update!
Photos: Pete Davis.
Audrey Marieagnes who broke the Women’s 500m Wingfoil world record (All Subject to WSSRC Ratification) last week pushed the record even higher with a 30.47 knot run just beating by 0.05 of a knot UK’s Richard Hobson who pushed his British record over 30 knots to 30.42.
Roger Ornvang from Sweden who drive 26 hours from Sweden to take part went out 1st on his Windsurf equipment but couldn’t beat his own Swedish record, so changed to his kite gear and set a new Swedish Kite mile record of 32.42 knots over the Nautical mile. Rob Douglas from Martha’s Vineyard in the USA got close to is kite record over the mile but couldn’t get over the line so switched to his Wingfoil gear but was a few tenths of the USA record.
Just when we thought the day was done Audrey decided to try for the Nautical mile record on Wingfoil. Amazingly in light winds achieved a new women’s mile Nautical record of 26.42 knots. So now subject to ratification will hold both 500m and Nautical mile women’s world records.
With strong winds forecast for the 3rd 4th and 5th just before the event closes on the 7th the organisers are hoping for more records to fall. Keep watching for more updates. If the forecast holds, Antoine Albeau and the Dutch Speed specialists are all booked in!
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