Olympic Windsurfing Champion Nikos Kaklamanikis made an impressive 320 nautical miles long distance trip from Athens to Crete. Check the 2 video's that have been released.

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The RSX windsurf girls of Hong Kong, Hayley Chan and Vicky Chan (not sisters), had to get used a little bit to the conditions here in Cadiz, Spain. After a nice warm Asian Championship in Thailand it's a bit of "shocker" to sail in 22 kn of wind and a temperature of 9 degrees. But they do a good job and keep on smiling.

Unfortunately there wasn't to much information about the Asian Championships 2012 but at least I have the results. As far as I understand the conditions have been pretty light during the whole event.

The performance of the Hong Kong Team has been great this week. In the mens fleet Andy Leung (HGK-2) managed to win 4 out of 9 races and took the title. In second place it is the Korean Lee Tae Hoon (KOR-71) who was leading the first days but his OCS in race 6 got him in trouble. The 3rd place went to the host country Thailand. Ek Boonsawad (THA-8) had a. steady serie and put himself one point ahead of Fai Cheng Kwok (HGK-18).

The Hong Kong Windsurfing Team is at the moment competing in the Asian Championships 2012.

The event takes place in Pattaya, Thailand. The numbers of the fleets are good and especially the mens fleet with 30 competitors is double the size of the Worldcup in Miami which is also taking place at the moment. For the Asians it's a good opportunity to have a race close by home and start final preparations for the upcoming Worlds in Spain, Cadiz (march).

After 2 days it's Hei Man Chan (Hayley) leading in the womensfleet closely follwed by Li Mei Sun (CHN) and Wai Kei Chan (Vicky). In the mensfleet also the Hong Kong Team is doing good. Ho Tsun Leung (Andy) is currently 2nd and Kwok Fai Cheng is closely following 4 points behind on 3rd. The leader is Korean Lee Tae Hoon.

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Although just recovered from a good celebration party Dorian already stated that he will defend his title in march 2012 in Cadiz, Spain.

As he says in the interview it will be a good moment to check his progress leading up to the 2012 Olympics and anyway it's good to do some racing and defend his title.

Besides of these arguments it's also good to know that the 2012 RSX Worlds in Cadiz will have US$ 45.000 Prize money!!!!

A last video of the Men's RSX Worlds 2011  just came in from the RSX Class. The RSX Class has produced their own video's during the event and I think they did a great job!!!

And ofcourse this is only possible with great athlete's and good perfomances.

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The new RSX Worldchampion Dorian was seen today on many TV and internetchannels.

Besides of the news he also received a phonecall from Prime minister Mark Rutte and a fax from the Queen!

Here are just a few examples of what I have seen:

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Dorian takes the Gold at the RSX Worlds 2011!!!

After a bronze medal at the Worlds in  2009 Dorian has finally claimed his well deserved Worldtitle on the RSX in Perth.

In the Medalrace he needed to finish ahead of Piotr Myszka (POL) which isn't an easy task considering that Myszka is the 2010 Worldchampion and 2011 European Champion. But Dorian must have felt really confident and at the first upwind mark he was already 25 seconds and 3 places ahead of Myszka. And while Dorian kept going forward in the fleet finishing on 4th place Myszka wasnt able to improve himself coming in on 8th place.

Tomorrow, sunday 18th dec, is going to tell us who wil be the Worldchampion 2011 for the RSX Men.

Today's racing showed a strike back of current European- and Worldchampion Piotr Myszka (POL). With two 2nd places he managed not only to close the gap with Dorian (NED) but is now leading with one point. But leading with one point going into the Medalrace doesn't mean anything. Because of the double point scoring it's really simple. The one who is in front of the other will become the Worldchampion 2011!!!!

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