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Elena Kalinina
Elena Pavlovna Kalinina (; born 20 July 1997) is a Russian World champion at Formula Kite where competitors use kites to propel small hydrofoils. Kalinina first became a World Champion in 2014 when she was seventeen. Life Kalinina was born in 1997 and she is a Russian sailor from St Petersburg. She competed in China in 2013 where she came third. The British kiteboarder Steph Bridge was second and the world title was taken by the reigning champion Californian Erika Heineken In 2014, course-racing kiteboarding was included in the ISAF World Sailing World Cup program. In November 2014, 20 athletes attended the final competition in Abu Dhabi. The first place among women was taken by 17 year-old Kalinina, while the men's champion was the British surfer Oliver Bridge. Kalinina just beat the Polish kitesurfer Agnieszka Grzymska, and her fellow Russian, Tatiana Sysoeva, took the bronze medal. Sixteen year-old Daniela Moroz competed closely with the 18 year old Kalinina at Weifang Bin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formula Kite
Formula Kite is the kitesurfing class chosen by World Sailing for the 2024 Summer Olympics. The class features a foil kite and a board with a hydrofoil. The equipment is not one-design, but instead competitors use their choice of approved production equipment. The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) manages the class. The class is for men and women. Events Men's Olympics Men's World Championship Women's Olympics Women's World Championship See also * Windfoiling Windfoiling (or foil windsurfing) is a surface water sport that is the hydrofoiling evolution of windsurfing, as well as typical sailing boats and sailing hydrofoils. It uses similar equipment to windsurfing with a normal or slightly evolved rig ... References External links International Kiteboarding Association Olympic sailing classes Hydrofoils Kitesurfing Classes of World Sailing {{Water-sports-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steph Bridge
Stephanie "Steph" Bridge (born 14 July 1972) is a British kitesurfer who became the World Formula Kite champion five times between 2009 and 2016. She is the leading figure in the "Team Bridge" family. Life Bridge was born on 14 July 1972. She won her first Formula Kite World Championship at the St. Francis Yacht Club in San Francisco in 2009. This was the final race of six championship races and qualification rounds. Sean Farley took the men's championship. She won four more Formula Kite World Championships between 2009 and 2016, and two medals at the Formula Kite European Championships, gold in 2012 and silver in 2016. In 2012 she was in Cagliari in Italy at the Kiteboard Course Racing World championships. She took the silver medal after being narrowly beaten by the American Erika Heineken who took the gold. In 2015 she set out from Cowes in the Isle of Wight accompanied by her son . They said this a practice run for a later record attempt but fifteen year old Guy broke the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erika Heineken
Erika Heineken (born 21 June 1986) is an American mechanical engineer and a competitive kitesurfer. She won a sailing event with her father at the US Nationals in 2006 before she switched to windsurfing and then Formula Kite. She was a Runner-up in the Rolex US Yachtswoman of the Year. She has been the women’s kiteboard racing world champion twice, Life Heineken was born in 1986 and she was on a sailing boat when she was a month old. She lived at Larkspur. She attended the Marin Academy in California after she went to St. Patrick’s, Hall Middle School. Her father, Paul Heineken, was a member of a sailing club and she won a woman skipper event with him in 2006 in a 29er dinghy at the US Nationals. She was a sailor and a windsurfer and she followed her younger brother, Johnny Heineken, when he moved on to the new sport of Formula Kite. While she was at college she went on a windsurfing trip to Sardinia. She tried kite surfing whils she was there and this resulted in her extendi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World Sailing
World Sailing is the international sports governing body for sailing (sport), sailing; it is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC). History The creation of the International Yacht Racing Union (IYRU) began in 1904, when Major Brooke Heckstall-Smith AINA, then Secretary of the Yacht Racing Association (now the Royal Yachting Association) wrote to the Yacht Club de France, pointing out the desirability of holding a conference for the purpose of devising an International Rule of Measurement for Racing Yachts acceptable to all European countries. As a result, an International Conference of Yacht Measurement was held in London in January and June 1906, at which the Metre Rule was developed. This group went on to adopt a formal Constitution after a meeting at the Yacht Club de France in Paris on 14 October 1907 which is seen as the formation date of the International Yacht Racing Union. On 5 August 1996, the IYRU chang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates. The city is the seat of the Abu Dhabi Central Capital District, the capital city of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, and the UAE's List of cities in the United Arab Emirates, second-most populous city, after Dubai. The city is situated on a T-shaped island, extending into the Persian Gulf from the central-western coast of the UAE. Abu Dhabi is located on an island in the Persian Gulf, off the Central West Coast. Most of the city and the Emirate reside on the mainland connected to the rest of the country. , Abu Dhabi's urban area had an estimated population of 2.5 million, out of 3.8 million in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. The Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is headquartered in the city, and was the Sovereign wealth fund#Largest sovereign wealth funds, world's 3rd largest sovereign wealth fund in 2022. Abu Dhabi itself has over a trillion US dollars worth of assets under management in a combination of various List of coun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oliver Bridge (kitesurfer)
The Oliver Bridge is a bridge across the Saint Louis River (Lake Superior tributary), Saint Louis River. It was constructed in 1910 as a railway bridge by the Interstate Transfer Railway Company, a Wisconsin corporation, under special federal authorization from the 60th United States Congress. A lower deck carrying road traffic was constructed in 1917 It connects the Gary – New Duluth neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota, Duluth, Minnesota with the village of Oliver, Wisconsin, Oliver, Wisconsin. The bridge is long and is principally of Truss bridge, steel truss construction. The upper deck carries a single track rail line and a lower deck carries the road connecting Wisconsin Highway 105 to Minnesota State Highway 39. The upper deck was built to allow a streetcar line to be constructed from Gary–New Duluth to south Superior, Wisconsin, Superior connecting the Duluth and Superior streetcar systems. The line was never built and the systems were connected across the Twin Ports H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agnieszka Grzymska
Agnieszka is the Polish equivalent of the female given name Agnes. Notable people with this name include: * Agnieszka Arnold, Polish documentary filmmaker * Agnieszka Baranowska (1819–1890), Polish playwright and poet * Agnieszka Bednarek (born 1986), international Polish volleyball player *Agnieszka Brustman (born 1962), female Polish chess master *Agnieszka Brzezańska (born 1972), Polish artist *Agnieszka Brugger (born 1985), German politician * Agnieszka Chylińska (born 1976), Polish rock singer and columnist *Agnieszka Cyl (born 1984), Polish biathlete * Agnieszka Czopek (born 1964), Polish swimmer *Agnieszka Domańska (born 1970), Polish ice dancer * Agnieszka Dowbor-Muśnicka (1919–1940), Polish WWII resistance fighter * Agnieszka Duczmal (born 1946), Polish conductor * Agnieszka Dulej (born 1983), Polish ice dancer * Agnieszka Dygant (born 1973), Polish actress *Agnieszka Gąsienica-Daniel (born 1987), Polish skier *Agnieszka Graff (born 1970), Polish writer, transl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Sysoeva
Tatiana (or Tatianna, also romanized as Tatyana, Tatjana, Tatijana, etc.) is a female name of Sabine-Roman origin that became widespread in Eastern Europe. Origin Tatiana is a feminine, diminutive derivative of the Sabine—and later Latin—name Tatius. King Titus Tatius was the name of a legendary ruler of the Sabines, an Italic tribe living near Rome around the 8th century BC. After the Romans absorbed the Sabines, the name Tatius remained in use in the Roman world, into the first centuries of Christianity, as well as the masculine diminutive Tatianus and its feminine counterpart, Tatiana. While the name later disappeared from Western Europe including Italy, it remained prevalent in the Hellenic world of the Eastern Roman Empire, and later spread to the Byzantine-influenced Orthodox world, including Russia. In that context, it originally honoured the church Saint Tatiana, who was tortured and martyred in the persecutions of the Roman Emperor Alexander Severus, c. 230& ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. Life Moroz was born in Berkeley in 2001. Her parents were Czech immigrants. They had both left their country in 1983 pretending to go on holiday but never returning to their country which was under a communist regime. Her parents never met until they were both in California and they shared a common interest in surfing. They dated because of their common life story and they married in 1993. Moroz won six gold medals at the Formula Kite World Championships between 2016 and 2022 and four gold medals at the Formula Kite European Championships between 2017 and 2021. She won her first world title at Weifang Weifang ( zh, s=潍坊, t=濰坊, p=Wéifāng) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, People's Republic of China. The city borders Dongying to the northwest, Zibo to the west, Linyi to the southwest, Rizhao to the south, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weifang
Weifang ( zh, s=潍坊, t=濰坊, p=Wéifāng) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, People's Republic of China. The city borders Dongying to the northwest, Zibo to the west, Linyi to the southwest, Rizhao to the south, Qingdao to the east, and looks out to the Laizhou Bay to the north. Its population was 9,386,705 at the 2020 census, of whom 3,095,520 lived in the built-up (''or metro'') area made up of four urban districts (''Kuiwen, Weicheng, Hanting and Fangzi'') and Changle County. Weifang has numerous natural and historic sites, such as Shihu Garden (from the Late Ming and early Qing dynasty), Fangong Pavilion (from the Song dynasty), fossil sites (including dinosaur fossils, in Shanwang, Linqu), Mount Yi National Forest Park, Mount Qingyun and the Old Dragon Spring. Painted New Year woodcuts from Yangjiabu are also well-known. The city is served by Weifang Airport to various cities across China. Administration The prefecture-level city of Weifang adminis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2018 Sailing World Championships
The 2018 Hempel Sailing World Championships were held in Aarhus, Denmark, from 30 July to 12 August 2018. It was the fifth edition of the Sailing World Championships. It was the world championships for all disciplines used at the next Olympics. Sailors from 84 nations raced in the waters of the Bay of Aarhus for world championships medals and the possibility to be qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. The event took place on the Docklands, at the exact spot where the Vikings founded Aarhus. A new world class sailing centre was the venue for 14 days leaving significant impact on Denmark's sailors and on the further urban development in Aarhus. Overview The Sailing World Championships are held every four years, the Worlds is one of the biggest global sailing events in the world. Hempel Sailing World Championships Aarhus 2018 is the first big qualification for the Olympic games in Tokyo 2020. The World Championships included all 10 Olympic boat classes. Kite s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Births
Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus Cyprus (), officially the Republic of Cyprus, is an island country in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Situated in West Asia, its cultural identity and geopolitical orientation are overwhelmingly Southeast European. Cyprus is the List of isl ... on account of a deal to buy S-300 missile system, Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot S-300 crisis, Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 16 – Murder of Ennis Cosby: Near Interstate 405 (California) on a Los Angeles freeway, Bill Cosby's son Ennis is shot in the head in a failed robbery attempt. * January 17 – A Delta II rocket carrying a military GPS payload explodes, shortly after liftoff from Cape Canaveral. * January 18 – In northwest Rwanda, Hutu militia members kill 6 Spanish aid workers and three soldiers, and seriously wound another. * January 19 – Yasser Arafat returns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
