August 19th will see Germany’s most popular vacation spot taken over by the best Freestyle and Course racing kiteboarders in the world. Attracting over 160,000 spectators each year the “St Peter Ording Kitesurf World Cup” is the most widely covered media event on the PKRA calendar, and boasts a total prize money of 52,000 EUR, the biggest Kiteboarding event in the world!

With massive crowds, media hype and huge prize money up for grabs the stakes are set high and we can expect to see great things as Youri Zoon (NED) attempts to continue his incredible winning streak. Alex Pastor (ESP) and Alberto Rondina (ITA) are following close behind Youri and will have eyes set on the men’s freestyle podium. Powerful riders Karolina Winkowska (POL) and Bruna Kajiya (BRA) will be looking to overtake the more technical style of current first place holder Gisela Pulido (ESP) in the women’s freestyle.

This event will also be the come back of 2009 World Champion Kevin Langeree who suffered an ACL injury last year during the Fuerteventura Grand Slam event. Kevin was leading the tour when he was injured. He has been recovering at home and training hard since then and will be one of the biggest contenders for a podium position, especially in St Peter Ording since he won the event 3 times in a row from 2007 to 2009!

Whilst in Course Racing only the US rider John Heineken is challenging the French leaders Olivier Dansin and Julien Kerneur for the top.

In addition not to be missed is the Air Style Show Discipline, a variation of the board off discipline held in 2010, a big crowd pleaser with the amazing high jumps, and board off tricks.

For the first time ever we will also see the emergence of a new junior category, allowing the under 13’s to showcase their freestyle talent in competition for a PKRA Junior Division trophy. No prize money involved, just the chance for the future kings and queens of kitesurfing to show us what we have to look forward to.

The Beetle Kitesurf World Cup 2011 is organized by ACT AGENCY GmbH and is sponsored by Volkswagen, Prosieben, Windows Internet Explorer 9, St Peter Ording, Jever, Quicksilver, Lufthansa, Coca-Cola, Vitamizzer, Addidas, Yamaha, Caterpillar, NJOY and Kitelife.

PKRA Germany 2011

we kijken er naar uit!!

Registration of the 2011 St Peter Ording Grand Slam

Aug-19-2011
130 riders from twenty two countries have come to the biggest PKRA stop of the year in St Peter Ording, Germany, to battle it out on the North Sea. We started with an opening ceremony in the event village set up on the beach. A fleet of riders waving their flags announced the opening of the event in front of a huge crowd, ready to see some major kitesurfing action tomorrow.

For ten days the best Freestyle and Course racing kiteboarders in the world will be battling out in a series of heat. Attracting over 150,000 spectators each year the “St Peter Ording Kitesurf World Cup” is the most widely covered media event on the PKRA calendar, and boasts a total prize money of 52,000 EUR, the biggest of any PKRA event!

With massive crowds, media hype and huge prize money up for grabs, the stakes are set high and we can expect to see great things as Youri Zoon (Slingshot, NED) attempts to continue his incredible winning streak after taking first place yet again in the last PKRA event in Fuerteventura. Alex Pastor (Airush, ESP) and Alberto Rondina (Cabrinha, ITA) are following close behind Youri and they will also have eyes set on the men’s freestyle podium. In the women’s freestyle competition Powerful riders Karolina Winkowska (Slingshot, POL) and Bruna Kajiya (Flexifoil, BRA) will be looking to overtake the more technical style of current first place holder, Gisela Pulido (Airush, ESP).

This event will also be the come back of 2009 World Champion Kevin Langeree (Naish, NED) who suffered an ACL injury last year during the Fuerteventura Grand Slam event. Kevin was leading the tour when he was injured. He has been recovering at home and training hard ever since. He will be one of the biggest contenders for a podium position. St Peter Ording has been a successful stop for Kevin in the past; he won the event 3 times in a row from 2007 to 2009! We met with him during the Kite Masters in Tenerife organized by the PKRA and he seemed very confident with his riding. “I’m coming to St Peter to have fun and assess my level on the tour, I’m in the process of getting back on track and I look forward to being fully in the race for the title next year”

In Course Racing, US riders John Heineken (Ozone, USA) and Adam Koch (Ozone, USA) will be challenging the French leaders Olivier Dansin (North, FRA) and Julien Kerneur (Takoon, FRA) for the top.

As for the girls, Steph Bridge (North, GBR) has come to Germany to see if she can achieve the same result as her first event earlier this year in Thailand where she came first beating Caroline Adrien (Cabrinha, FRA) and Melissa Gil (CRC, Cabrinha).

For the first time ever we will also see the emergence of a new junior category, which allows the under 13’s to showcase their freestyle talent in competition for a PKRA Junior Division trophy. No prize money involved, just a chance for the future kings and queens of kitesurfing to show us what we have to look forward to.

Like every year this event has attracted huge amounts of competitors here to the heart of Europe, a lot of riders will be using this week to assess their competitive riding level. As so many riders have registered we will start with the Freestyle qualifiers tomorrow as good conditions are predicted. The skippers meeting is set for 8.30am.

The Beetle Kitesurf World Cup 2011 is sponsored by Volkswagen, Prosieben, Windows Internet Explorer 9, St Peter Ording, Jever, Quicksilver, Lufthansa, Coca-Cola, Vitamizzer, Addidas, Yamaha, Caterpillar, NJOY and Kitelife.

"With massive crowds, media hype and huge prize money up for grabs"

wat schuift dit event voor de winnaar van de freestyle?

geldverdeling is als volgt: http://www.prokitetour.com/pkra-event-rules.php, regel nummertje 43.

Reken jij het effe uit?

allright, de wind is gaan liggen dus helaas hebben we de kwalificaties niet kunnen beeindigen. Tack is momenteel wel al in het main event.
Ik probeer tegen vanavond wat meer te vertellen, maar internet is extreem traag, dus koop ik ff internet aan in m'n hotel voor vanavond :)

Het zonnetje is erbij gekomen en nu drinken we op't gemak een biertje. MMMmmmmm

thx, ik kom op een aardig bedrag idd.

waar kan ik de pkra live volgen vanuit mijn eigen huisje?
was er niet iets van een website ofzo..?

normaal kan je het volgen op http://live.prokitetour.com/


maar het vage is dat we in duitsland zijn en geen deftige verbinding hebben..

-1 voor de PKRA

zal morgen t item wel ff netjes opmaken

Moet je betalen voor internet? In US een keer eerder meegemaakt, en ook daar was iedereen het er over eens dat dat heftig uit de tijd is. Maar ook in Duitsland dus iewat ouderwets...

Is ook niet van deze tijd, leg je t de hotels in Nederland ook ff uit?

There were no major surprises in the first 14 heats, all the best riders from the PKRA made it to the next round. Head judge Sami Gali noted the performance of Van De Kop (NED, Flexifoil) who came first in his heat, “he showed some serious talent and proved that he is a rider to look out for in the future.”

http://prokitetour.com/news.php?id=237

Misschien kom ik hier alleen maar in nieuwerwetste hotels ;)

Day 1 in St Peter Ording, Freestyle Trials

Aug-20-2011
The PKRA riders where very impressed by the conditions in St Peter Ording, Germany today. They hope that it will stay this way the entire week as we enjoyed perfect sunshine and strong winds, with conditions starting from 9-12 knots this morning and improving to 16-18 knots toward the middle of the trials. We had very clear skies to start these nine days of competition ,which will be one of the biggest trials ever done on the PKRA. Fifty six riders competed for the fourteen places left in the ladder of the men’s single elimination, and eight girls out of fourteen made it to the next stage.



We had fourteen men’s heats with four riders competing in each. The rider who came fourth was directly eliminated, the three winners were then mixed up to compete in again in the next heat in which the winner advanced into the main event. In the girl’s competition, there were four initial heats with the two best riders from each one qualifying for the main event.

The Dominican Republic was well represented by Ariel Corniel (Ozone), Robinson Hilario (F-ONE) and Alex Soto (F-ONE). Ariel reckoned that he is now used to the European conditions and didn’t suffer from riding in the cold waters of the North Sea. Alex was more cautious and has been training in St Peter for the past two weeks to get used to the spot.

While talking about the return of Kevin Langeree (NED, Naish), 2009 World Champion after his knee injury, they mentioned that this type of injury is commonplace nowadays in kiteboarding, all the riders are now joking about it: “If you want to be a pro and get into the top 10, you’ve got to injure your knee, train hard to get back and then wear a knee brace for the rest of your career,” reported the current leader of the tour, Youri Zoon (NED, Slingshot) whilst waiting for the single elimination to start. The Dominicans all suffered injuries recently and they agreed that the important thing when you go down for a while is to get back up on the board quickly. A lot of riders on tour are now wearing knee braces to prevent any further troubles.



There were no major surprises in the first 14 heats, all the best riders from the PKRA made it to the next round. Head judge Sami Gali noted the performance of Van De Kop (NED, Flexifoil) who came first in his heat, “he showed some serious talent and proved that he is a rider to look out for in the future.”

Judge Antoine Jaubert also mentioned another rookie: Stefan Spiessberger (AUT, North) who won his first heat today, so we have a few new promising faces to follow in this event.

Entering the main event in the girl’s division are: Schumacher, Rapp, Lutz, Whiteley, Boese, Brill, Jungo and Kennedy. Hannah Whiteley (GBR, Wainman) reported that the conditions were challenging, as the wind dropped when they started competing. The current was strong which made it hard to stay up wind to do all the tricks inside the four buoys, which mark the area to perform for the judges. She felt confident about her heat today and won it, Hannah won the big air, board off last year and hopes to reiterate her performance during this event.

As we entered the second part of the trials the wind seriously dropped but allowed us to finish 5 heats therefore qualifying the five winners: Morales, Whaley, Wesch, Soto and Tack.



Eight riders are prequalified and two wild cards have been given to Kevin Langeree (NED, Naish) and Tim Kummerfeld (GER, Core). Kevin was stoked to enter into the main event, he feels lucky since he reckoned that the trials here were hard, long and hectic. Now he has to prove himself worthy of the spot in his come back to the competition.

When the wind dropped completely, Race Director Olaf Van Tol stopped the competition and the riders went for a walk into the event village. Sebastien Garat (FRA, RRD) was happy to be in Germany because he considers this to be the biggest event of the year. “It’s nice because everyone can come and discover kiteboarding in the tents, every brand is represented so you can see all the new equipment, you can meet all the riders and there are cool activities within the village. It’s a very entertaining and well rounded event.”

Tomorrow morning the conditions are predicted to be lighter and we should see the fleet of Course Racers on the water. If the wind is strong enough we will finish the trials.

The Beetle Kitesurf World Cup 2011 is sponsored by Volkswagen, Prosieben, Windows Internet Explorer 9, St Peter Ording, Jever, Quicksilver, Lufthansa, Coca-Cola, Vitamizzer, Addidas, Caterpillar, NJOY and Kitelife.

For more information check: www.prokitetour.com and the PKRA facebook page

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