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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] |
Marin Academy
Marin Academy (familiarly known as MA) is a private school, private college preparatory high school in San Rafael, California. Located on the campus that for decades housed the San Rafael Military Academy prior to its closure, Marin Academy was founded in 1971 with 118 faculty members and a student body of 449. Marin Academy is one of the most competitive private high schools in the Bay Area. In the 2015–2016 school year, Marin Academy accepted one in four students who applied. Curriculum MA requires students to take two years of one of its performing or visual arts programs, four years of English, three years of History, three years of Mathematics, three years of Science (Biology, Chemistry, and one Physics course are required), and two semesters of Human Development, a health and social awareness class. In addition to classroom instruction, Marin Academy students undertake a number of non-traditional learning experiences such as minicourse, the Outings program, end-of-ye ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
American Kitesurfers
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Living People
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1986 Births
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. ** Spain and Portugal enter the European Community, which becomes the European Union in 1993. * January 11 – The Sir Leo Hielscher Bridges, Gateway Bridge in Brisbane, Australia, at this time the world's longest prestressed concrete free-cantilever bridge, is opened. * January 13–January 24, 24 – South Yemen Civil War. * January 20 – The United Kingdom and France announce plans to construct the Channel Tunnel. * January 24 – The Voyager 2 space probe makes its first encounter with Uranus. * January 25 – Yoweri Museveni's National Resistance Army Rebel group takes over Uganda after leading a Ugandan Bush War, five-year guerrilla war in which up to half a million people are believed to have been killed. They will later use January 26 as the official date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Kiteboarding Association
The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA), is the only kiteboarding class inside the International Sailing Federation (ISAF). The IKA class rules fall in the category of a development class. History The International Kiteboarding Association was founded in April 2008 by Guillaume Fournier (two-time kiteboarding world champion), after the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) had included the principle of surfers being propelled by a kite in the 'ISAF Equipment Rules of Sailing'. Kiteboarding was adopted in November 2008 as an ISAF international sailing class. An Executive Committee is re-appointed by the class AGM. The duties of the Executive Committee are to take care of the day-to-day business of the association, and to coordinate submissions from the sub-committees. Executives The Executive Committee is: * Chairman: Richard Gowers (GBR) * Vice-chairman: Bruno De Wannemaeker (BEL) * Executive Secretary: Markus Schwendtner (GER) * Head of Communications and Public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bo'ao
Bo'ao is a coastal town in the city of Qionghai, Hainan, China. The town is near the mouth of the Wanquan River where it discharges into the South China Sea. The town is away from downtown Qionghai, away from Haikou and away from Sanya. Bo'ao is famous for the Boao Forum for Asia, an international organisation whose venue is permanently located on Bo'ao's largest island, Dongyu Island (). File:HN QH Boao Jade Belt Beach WanQuan River.jpg, Jade Belt Beach (玉带滩) File:HN QH Yacht Wharf 2 Boao Jade Belt beach.jpg, Bo'ao Buddhist Temple (博鳌禅寺) Transportation Bo'ao railway station serves this town. Song about Bo'ao In 2018, French singer Dantès Dailiang and Chinese singer Eva release two songs in four languages (Chinese, Russian, French and English) and two music video clips about Bo'ao.Forever in Bo'ao, Dantès Dai Liang & Eva, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyGZ-niz5f8 2018 See also * Boao Forum for Asia The Boao Forum for Asia (BFA; zh, c=博鳌 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Adrien
Caroline Adrien (born 23 December 1987) is a French professional kite surfer. In July 2012 she won the silver medal in the Slalom World Championships, finishing behind Katja Roose, but in front of Kristin Boese. In the same year she took bronze in Cagliari in Italy at the 2012 Kiteboard Course Racing World championships. She was beaten by the British Steph Bridge with the American Erika Heineken taking the gold. Achievements Source: ;2010 : PKRA World Tour Thailand ( cross race) : PKRA World Tour Sankt Peter-Ording ( cross race) : PKRA World Tour Fuerteventura ( cross race) : PKRA World Tour Bariloche ( cross race) ;2011 : PKRA World Tour Thailand ( cross race) : PKRA World Tour ( cross race) : PKRA World Tour Sankt Peter-Ording ( cross race) : World Championships ( slalom) ;2012 : PKRA World Tour Hyères Hyères (), Provençal dialect, Provençal Occitan language, Occitan: ''Ieras'' in classical norm, or ''Iero'' in Mistralian norm) is a Communes of France, commune in the Var ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Vermont
The University of Vermont and State Agricultural College, commonly referred to as the University of Vermont (UVM), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Burlington, Vermont, United States. Founded in 1791, UVM is the oldest university in Vermont and the fifth-oldest in New England. UVM comprises ten colleges and schools, including the Robert Larner College of Medicine, and offers more than 100 undergraduate majors along with various graduate and professional programs. The University of Vermont Medical Center, has its primary facility on the UVM campus. It is Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities—Very high research activity". In athletics, UVM's teams, known as the Vermont Catamounts, Catamounts, compete in NCAA Division I, primarily in the America East Conference and Hockey East, Hockey East Association. History The University of Vermont was founded as a pr ... [...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] |
29er (dinghy)
The 29er is a two-person high performance skiff (sailing), sailing skiff designed by Julian Bethwaite and first produced in 1998. Derived from the Olympic sailing classes, Olympic class 49er (dinghy), 49er class, it is raced in the ISAF Youth Sailing World Championships. The 29er is able to reach high speeds fairly quickly by having a sleek and hydrodynamic hull (watercraft), hull and will often exceed the wind speed when planing (sailing), planing both up and downwind. Background The 29er class is targeted at youth, especially those training to sail the larger Olympic 49er (dinghy), 49er. The Youth Sailing World Championships has adopted it to replace the Laser 2 - which was designed by Julian Bethwaite's father Frank Bethwaite, Frank. The 29er has two sailors, one on Trapeze (Dinghy Gear), trapeze. The rig features a fractional asymmetrical spinnaker; a self-tacking jib decreases the work load of the crew, making maneuvers more efficient and freeing the crew to take the ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
