{"id":21992,"date":"2009-10-19T15:28:30","date_gmt":"2009-10-19T22:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21992"},"modified":"2009-10-19T15:48:54","modified_gmt":"2009-10-19T22:48:54","slug":"sailing-kiteboarding-luderitz-speed-challenge-2009-the-race-for-100kph-blasts-off-in-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=21992","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Kiteboarding &#8211; Luderitz Speed Challenge 2009: The race for 100kph blasts off in November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">The third annual L\u00c3\u00bcderitz Speed Challenge will begin in less than two weeks. \u00c2\u00a0This time last year, speed sailors shattered the previously unbeatable 50knot barrier (93kph), setting a string of world and national\u00c2\u00a0records in this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Formula One of Sailing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Throughout the month of November many of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top kitesurfers will once again descend on the remote Namibian town of L\u00c3\u00bcderitz to compete against each other and the clock to prove\u00c2\u00a0what is the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fastest wind-powered craft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\">Last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s challenge saw the kitesurfers take over many of the top slots in the international rankings for speed sailing, contested by sailboats, windsurfers and kitesurfers. Alex Caizergues of France set &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bymnews.com\/news\/newsDetails.php?id=61662\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<center>[ad#cor1]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The third annual L\u00c3\u00bcderitz Speed Challenge will begin in less than two weeks. \u00c2\u00a0This time last year, speed sailors shattered the previously unbeatable 50knot barrier (93kph), setting a string of world and national\u00c2\u00a0records in this \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Formula One of Sailing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. Throughout the month of November many of the world\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s top kitesurfers will once again descend on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,33,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-boating","category-kiteboard","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21992"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21994,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21992\/revisions\/21994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}