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Rolf Van Der Vlugt
Rolf van der Vlugt (born 27 October 1981) is a Dutch professional kite surfer. In July 2012 he won the bronze medal in the Slalom World Championships, finishing behind Julien Kerneur and Maxime Nocher. Achievements Source: ;2008 : PKRA World Tour Port Saint Louis ( kite cross) ;2010 : PKRA World Tour Sankt Peter-Ording ( kite cross) : PKRA World Tour Fuerteventura ( kite cross) ;2011 :4th PKRA World Tour Thailand ( kite cross) :6th PKRA World Tour Sankt Peter-Ording ( kite cross) ;2012 : World Championships (slalom To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to: Sports ;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding * Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline * Giant slalom, an alpine skiing and alpine snowboarding discipline * Super-G ...) References External linksPKRA Profile {{DEFAULTSORT:Vlugt, Rolf 1981 births Living people Dutch kitesurfers Male kitesurfers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kite Surfing
Kiteboarding or kitesurfing is a sport that involves using wind power with a large power kite to pull a rider across a water, land, or snow surface. It combines aspects of paragliding, surfing, windsurfing, skateboarding, snowboarding, and wakeboarding. Kiteboarding is among the less expensive and the more convenient sailing sports. After some concepts emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and some designs were successfully tested, the sport received a wider audience in the late 1990s and became mainstream at the turn of the century. It has freestyle, wave-riding, and racing competitions. The sport held the speed sailing record, reaching before being eclipsed by the Vestas Sailrocket. Worldwide, there are 1.5 million kitesurfers, while the industry sells around 100,000 to 150,000 kites per year. Most power kites are leading edge inflatable kites or foil kites attached by about of flying lines to a control bar and a harness. The kitesurfer rides on either a bidir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julien Kerneur
Julien Kerneur (born 1 November 1991) is a French professional kite surfer. He is sponsored by Ozone Kiteboarding. In July 2012 he won the gold medal in the Slalom World Championships, finishing in front of Maxime Nocher and Rolf van der Vlugt. Achievements Source: ;2008 :4th PKRA World Tour France ( kite cross) ;2009 : PKRA World Tour Paros ( kite cross) ;2010 : PKRA World Tour Thailand ( kite cross) : PKRA World Tour Sankt Peter-Ording ( kite cross) :4th PKRA World Tour Fuerteventura ( kite cross) : PKRA World Tour Bariloche ( kite cross) ;2011 : PKRA World Tour Thailand ( kite cross) : PKRA Word Tour ( kite cross) : PKRA World Tour Sankt Peter-Ording ( kite cross) ;2012 :5th PKRA World Tour Mexico ( kite cross) :4th PKRA World Tour The Hague, Scheveningen :6th PKRA World Tour Hyères ( kite cross) : World Championships (slalom To slalom is to zigzag between obstacles. It may refer to: Sports ;Alpine skiing and/or snowboarding * Slalom skiing, an alpine skiing an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Nocher
Maxime Nocher (born 2 June 1994) is a French professional kite surfing, kite surfer. Nocher is a 10 time world champion and nine time French champion. Achievements ; 2006 : Vice-champion d’Europe junior en freestyle ; 2007 : Champion d’Europe junior freestyle ; 2008 : 1er en coupe d’Europe course racing ; 2009 :4ème au championnat de France freestyle : 1 er en coupe d’europe course racing : vice-champion de France course racing : 1er au Hyères kite-show ; 2010 : Champion de France junior course racing : 1er coupe d’europe course racing : Champion de France junior freestyle ; 2011 : Champion du Monde junior racing : Champion de France junior Course racing. : Vice Champion du Monde en planche de série. : Vice Champion Europe tour course racing. ; 2012 : Champion du Monde de foil. : Vice Champion du Monde de slalom. : 5ème Mondiale. : Vice Champion Europe tour course racing. : Champion de France de race : Coupe d'Europe race ;2013 : Champion de France rac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône
Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône (; oc, Pòrt Sant Loís) is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France. History The commune was created in 1904 from parts of the communes of Arles and Fos-sur-Mer. The Saint-Louis channel was dug in 1871. The parish was established in 1886. Population Features Port-Saint-Louis-du-Rhône is an industrial town and port annex of Marseille at the mouth of the Rhône River, and includes many parks, large avenues and large farmhouses known as camarguais. The town has three popular beaches: Napoleon beach, Olga beach, and Carteau beach. There are many marshes and cultivated plants nearby, and vast salt-water marshes of the Camargue swamp. Local wildlife includes herds of wild horses and pink flamingos being in the marshes. Industry The Camargue produces primarily salt and mineral oil. There are also petrochemical factories and grain mills. See also * Communes of the Bouches-du-Rhône department The following is a list of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sankt Peter-Ording
Sankt Peter-Ording () is a popular German seaside spa and a municipality in the district of Nordfriesland, in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. It is the only German seaside resort that has a sulphur spring and thus terms itself "North Sea spa and sulphur spring". By overnight stays, St. Peter-Ording is the largest seaside resort A seaside resort is a resort town, town, village, or hotel that serves as a Resort, vacation resort and is located on a coast. Sometimes the concept includes an aspect of official accreditation based on the satisfaction of certain requirements, suc ... and has the most overnight stays in the state of Schleswig-Holstein. Geography St. Peter-Ording is situated on the North Sea coast, on the western tip of the Eiderstedt peninsula, approx. 45 km southwest of Husum, Germany, Husum. Part of the municipality lies in the Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea National Park. Its characteristics include a beach that is approximately 12 kilometers long and up to one kil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuerteventura
Fuerteventura () is one of the Canary Islands, in the Atlantic Ocean, part of the North Africa region, and politically part of Spain. It is located away from the northwestern coast of Africa. The island was declared a biosphere reserve by UNESCO in 2009. Fuerteventura belongs to Province of Las Palmas, one of the two provinces that form the autonomous community of the Canary Islands. The island's capital is Puerto del Rosario, where the Insule Council is found, the government of the island. Fuerteventura has 119,732 inhabitants (), the fourth largest population of the Canary Islands and the third of the Province. At , it is the second largest of the Canary Islands, after Tenerife. From a geological point of view, Fuerteventura is the oldest island in the archipelago. Toponymy The island's name is a compound word formed by the Spanish words for "strong" (fuerte) and "fortune" (ventura). Traditionally, Fuerteventura's name has been regarded as a reference to the strong winds aro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thailand
Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bordered to the north by Myanmar and Laos, to the east by Laos and Cambodia, to the south by the Gulf of Thailand and Malaysia, and to the west by the Andaman Sea and the extremity of Myanmar. Thailand also shares maritime borders with Vietnam to the southeast, and Indonesia and India to the southwest. Bangkok is the nation's capital and largest city. Tai peoples migrated from southwestern China to mainland Southeast Asia from the 11th century. Indianised kingdoms such as the Mon, Khmer Empire and Malay states ruled the region, competing with Thai states such as the Kingdoms of Ngoenyang, Sukhothai, Lan Na and Ayutthaya, which also rivalled each other. European contact began in 1511 with a Portuguese diplomatic mission to Ayutthaya, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 Births
Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front, FMLN launches its first major offensive, gaining control of most of Morazán Department, Morazán and Chalatenango Department, Chalatenango departments. * January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity (Polish trade union), Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican City, Vatican. * January 20 – Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days, minutes after Ronald Reagan is First inauguration of Ronald Reagan, sworn in as the 40th President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis. * January 21 – The first DMC DeLorean, DeLorean automobile, a stainless steel sports car with gull-wing doors, rolls off the production line in Dunmurry, Northern Ireland. * January 24 – An 1981 Dawu ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Dutch Kitesurfers
Dutch commonly refers to: * Something of, from, or related to the Netherlands * Dutch people () * Dutch language () Dutch may also refer to: Places * Dutch, West Virginia, a community in the United States * Pennsylvania Dutch Country People Ethnic groups * Germanic peoples, the original meaning of the term ''Dutch'' in English ** Pennsylvania Dutch, a group of early Germanic immigrants to Pennsylvania *Dutch people, the Germanic group native to the Netherlands Specific people * Dutch (nickname), a list of people * Johnny Dutch (born 1989), American hurdler * Dutch Schultz (1902–1935), American mobster born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer * Dutch Mantel, ring name of American retired professional wrestler Wayne Maurice Keown (born 1949) * Dutch Savage, ring name of professional wrestler and promoter Frank Stewart (1935–2013) Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Dutch (''Black Lagoon''), an African-American character from the Japanese manga and anime ''Black L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
