News: First world speed championship in windfoiling

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Last week, the first world speed championship in windfoiling took place in La Palme in the south of France. Windfoiling is a progressive refinement of windsurfing in which a hydrofoil is attached underneath the board, and the windsurfer flies a light meter above the water. It is comparable to the America's Cup, except the board is steered by an athlete with bare feet, and the sail is held with hands only.

It is the most efficient way to move across lakes and oceans using only wind and muscle power. There is a kind of magic, a lot of human intelligence, and a sense of adventure in developing such a technology. And athletes who devote their lives to achieving mastery in it. There is infinite passion, teamwork, intelligence, tenacity, and courage in it, which are all values that we need in this combination to save the climate.

On a spectacularly stormy and sunny day, as can only be expected in the northwestern Mediterranean, the first speed world champion in this new discipline was crowned on April 30. The Frenchman, William Huppert, won in front of the assembled world elite in four heats with top speeds over 70 km/h. But with William Huppert not only the best athlete of these ten world championship days won, but also an incredibly foresighted and convinced pioneer who had long been ridiculed by the old guard and was copied by them too late.

Together with Nicolas Goyard and supported by the ingenious technology developer Alex Udin (Phantom Foils), William Huppert has been setting new standards in windfoiling for years. The two surfers were the first to fly over the sea even in stormy conditions and with tiny foils and sails. In 2021, Nikolas Goyard, became the first windfoiler to leave all traditional windsurfers behind in the World Cup and become world champion in slalom windsurfing. Meanwhile, windfoiling has practically replaced traditional windsurfing in the World Cup. And now William Huppert set another milestone by establishing, ex aequo with Nicolas Goyard, the world record over the 500 m distance in 37.2 knots (68.9 km/h) and becoming the first world champion in speed foilsurfing in La Palme.

Carbon Standards International (CSI) supports athletes in sports that set new standards. We do this with targeted sponsorship of athletes in alpine snowboarding, boardercross, or wind foiling, and especially with material development. The method developed by our partner, the Ithaka Institute, which uses biochar-based nanocarbon in composite materials like snowboards, skis, and foils, takes sports technology to a new level. It is used, therefore, by top athletes and sets new standards among the top-ranked in the world.

With Global C-Sink technology, we reduce the vibration amplitude of the foils underwater and, thus, a safer ride at the speed limit.

Carbon Standards International sets new standards for climate protection and supports those in high-performance sports who do the same in their way.

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Carbon Standards International AG

Matthias Matzenberger
COO Global C-Sink

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Ueli Steiner
Director

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