The WISSA 2009, 29th Ice and Snow Sailing World Championship (ISSWC 2009) is over! And the results in the Kite Division are impressive! With 111 participants from 14 countries and dynamic and fast racing all week long the event was a great succes for Flysurfer and our Russian importer.

With Maxim Shaidakov from Russia becoming World Champion in Snowkite Course Racing overall. Alexey Okhotnikov took 3rd and Igor Lezinov 4th position. In the Snowkite Marathon division the results are almost as impressive, with Maxim Shaidakov taking 2nd, Igor Lezinov taking 4th and Alexey Okhotnikov taking 6th place.

All these snowkite racers where riding FLYSURFER SPEED2 kites. A big congratulations to all from all of us at FLYSURFER!

Some pics can be found here

Final results of the 29th Ice & Snow Sailing Word Championship
Riga, 16-21 February 2009 (Kite Division)


Kite Course Overall:
1) Maxim Shaidakov, Russia - World Champion Cup - FLYSURFER
2) Dmitriy Nikulichev, Russia
3) Alexey Okhotnikov, Russia - FLYSURFER
4) Igor Lezinov, Russia - FLYSURFER


Kite Course Master:
1) Igor Lezinov, Russia - FLYSURFER
2) Victor Gladyshev, Russia - FLYSURFER
3) Dmitry Minaev, Russia


Kite Marathon Men Overall:
1) Roman Lyubimtsev, Russia
2) Maxim Shaidakov, Russia - FLYSURFER
3) Dmitriy Nikulichev, Russia
4) Igor Lezinov, Russia - FLYSURFER
5) Ivan Petrov, Russia
6) Alexey Okhotnikov, Russia - FLYSURFER

wow there's a whole other world out there - ice polsters - who would have thought

i particularly like the "hand held class"