{"id":99977,"date":"2014-11-03T07:45:36","date_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99977"},"modified":"2014-11-03T07:45:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-03T14:45:36","slug":"video-kites-dominate-the-2014-luderitz-speed-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=99977","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Kites dominate the 2014 Luderitz Speed Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This year, we limited the number of competitors to facilitate the performances of each rider, in total &#8211; 34 riders (Windsurfers &amp; Kite Surfers) representing 17 different nationalities.<\/p>\n<p>2014 RESULTS OVERVIEW<br \/>\nNo less than 38 times, new RECORDS were set and then re-broken, ending the event with; 11 x New National Records and 1 x World Record!<\/p>\n<p>NEW NATIONAL\/COUNTRY RECORDS<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Redfern (Fiji) with 40.87 kts (75.5 kph average speed over 500m)<br \/>\nRoger Ornvang (Sweden) improved his national record &#8211; Kite Surfing &#8211; with 43.19 kts (80kph)<br \/>\nRemo Diethelm (Switzerland) with 48.31 kts (90 kph)<br \/>\nFranz Grabner (Austria) smashed the National record with 47.88 kts (88.5 kph)<br \/>\nMartin T\u00f3th (Czech Republic) broke his country\u2019s record often and finally ending with 46.73 kts (86.5 kph)<br \/>\nMark Grinnell (South Africa) set a new South Africa and all Africa record in Windsurfing with a truly impressive 49.92 kts (92.5 kph) \u2013 just short of the magical 50 knots<br \/>\nAlain de Gendt (Belgium) &#8211; new Production Board Record of 46.66 kts<br \/>\nChristian Bornemann (Germany) &#8211; new record in Windsurfing of 48.82 kts (90.4 kph)<br \/>\nZoran Jovanovic (Serbia) &#8211; new national record (Kitesurfing) of 40.31kts (74.5 kph)<br \/>\nPatrik Diethelm (Italy) achieved the TOP windsurfing performance at the 2014 event by improving the Italian National Record with a very impressive 51.18 kts (94.7 kph) just 0.8 knots of the World Windsurfing Record!<br \/>\nChristophe Ballois (France) set a brand new Disabled World Record (Kitesurf) with a superb and inspiring performance of 42.94 kts (80 kph)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QUrhWb4_VBs?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year, we limited the number of competitors to facilitate the performances of each rider, in total &#8211; 34 riders (Windsurfers &amp; Kite Surfers) representing 17 different nationalities. 2014 RESULTS OVERVIEW No less than 38 times, new RECORDS were set and then re-broken, ending the event with; 11 x New National Records and 1 x [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-99977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-kiteboard","category-windsurf-sailboard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977","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=99977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99978,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99977\/revisions\/99978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}