Julia Damasiewicz (born 22 October 2004) is a Polish
formula kitesurfer. She was the European champion in 2020.
Life
Damasiewicz was born in 2004.
When she was sixteen she became the European Champion in 2020 in formula kite racing. The race was in at
Puck in Poland and she drew ahead of the British kitesufer
Ellie Aldridge in the final race. The winners wore
COVID-19 facemasks on the Polish podium. In the following year Damasiewicz was the under-19 champion of the world.
Damasiewicz was first supported by Ozone Kites.
[ She was the runner-up in the 2021 ]Youth Sailing World Championships
The ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships was first held in Sweden in 1971 and it has been held every year since. It is one of the key events of the federation to help promote top-level youth participation.
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at Mussanah in Oman. The champion was Gal Zukerman
Gal Zukerman (; born 17 August 2003) is an Israeli Formula Kite, kite foiler. She won the Youth Sailing World Championships in 2022. Zukerman competed for Israel at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Israel at the 2024 Paris Olympics in the Sailing at th ...
of Israel and because of political differences it was reported that nobody's national anthem was played and the results were not published for a few days.
In 2022 she won the KiteFoil World Series at Traunsee
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in Austria. Ellie Aldridge took the silver medal and the American Daniela Moroz
Daniela Moroz ( ; born 2 February 2001) is an American sailor who became the World champion at Formula Kite six times between 2016 and 2022.
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Moroz was born in Berkeley in 2001. Her parents were Czech immigrants. They had both left their co ...
was third. It was a three-day competition but lack of wind meant that nearly all but one of the races took place on the final afternoon in light thermal winds on a freshwater lake in thirty degree temperatures. In the same year she went to The Hague
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in the Netherlands to compete in the World Youth Games. She won the event beating the French kitesufer Héloïse PégouriéShenzhen
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in China taking part in the Formula Kite Asia & Oceania Championships. She took third place overall and she was the highest placed surfer who was under 21 years old. The championship was won by Jingyue Chen
Jingyue Chen (born 28 December 2000) is a Chinese Formula Kite professional athlete who became the Asian, and the Asia & Oceania, champion in 2023.
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Chen was born on Pingtan Island in about 2001 and brought up there. When she was twelve, she ...
and Chen's fellow Chinese kitesurfer, Wan Li, took silver.
The last five of the 20 places for women kitefoilers at the Olympics were awarded at the ''Last Chance Regatta'' in April 2024 to the Austrian Surfer Alina Kornelli
Alina Kornelli (born 12 May 2000) is a German and Austrian Formula Kite competitor. She has been a sailor and a snowboarder.
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Kornelli was born in Munich in 2000 with dual Austrian/German nationality. Her supportive parents are Sabine, an A ...
, the Swiss surfer Elena Lengwiler
Elena Lengwiler born Elena Bosshard (born 1 June 1996) is a Swiss ice hockey player and a nominated kitefoiler for the 2024 Olympics. She was fourth in the 2024 European Championships and she represented Switzerland in Formula Kite at the 2024 Ol ...
, the Turkish Derin Atakan, Mafalda Pires de Lima
Mafalda Pires de Lima (born 14 April 1998) is a Portuguese kitefoiler. She has been sailing since the age of ten and when it was agreed that Formula Kite was to be an Olympic sport then she began to enjoy the difficult sport. She was Portugal's ...
of Portugal and Damasiewicz.Hyères
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in France. She was the highest placed woman under 21 at the event.
References
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2004 births
Living people
Female kitesurfers
21st-century Polish sportswomen
Olympic sailors for Poland
Sailors at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Formula Kite