Cornwall, England, February 9th 2014 — France’s Thomas Traversa proves to be the undisputed, ultimate storm windsurfer, winning the Red Bull Storm Chase final after a thrilling third mission to Cornwall, U.K. Marcilio Browne (BRA) secured the runner-up spot, with Leon Jamaer (GER) in third place and Dany Bruch (GER) in fourth position
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Registration, measurement, skippers meeting and 3 races …. All that without any sign of stress. Course area close to the shore with finish line 20 meters from beach. When it comes to condition you can not ask for more. It hardly can get any better then this!
The world’s best windsurfers competed in mission number two of windsurfing’s toughest contest as nine-metre waves and storm-force winds battered the Tasmanian coastline near Marrawah this weekend.
MARRAWAH (Tasmania) — Tasmania, part of the Commonwealth of Australia, really turned it on with two days of mind-blowing windsurfing action for the second mission of windsurfing’s most-challenging contest. The world’s best sailors have been hunting down massive storms around the globe with six athletes remaining in the competition to be crowned Red Bull Storm Chase Champion.
Thomas Traversa, Dany Bruch, Leon Jamaer and Marcilio Browne defied the storm most impressively of all and qualified for the third and final mission.
10 of the world’s best windsurfers from eight countries completed a demanding competition in Kerry, Ireland during the first mission of the Red Bull Storm Chase – the most-challenging windsurfing contest of all time.
Despite recorded storm-force gusts of up to 74 knots (137kmh) and fierce 20-ft waves, the sailors completed three rounds of competition in two locations on the Maharees peninsular.
After possibly the most radical day in windsurfing history, Marcilio Browne, Dany Bruch, Victor Fernandez, Robby Swift, Julien Taboulet and Thomas Traversa advance to Mission 2 of Red Bull Storm Chase.