Suardiaz and MacDonald Dominate Surf-Freestyle Division in Leucate
Nia Suardiaz and Chris MacDonald storm to the top at the first Surf-Freestyle event of the 2025 season
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Title holders open defence of crowns in France
All-conquering Nia Suardiaz begins quest for more world titles as US's Chris MacDonald seeks to make it three at Mondial du Vent opener
Iconic Mondial du Vent hosts fifth GWA world tour
Premier wind sports destination in southern France to stage wingfoil and groundbreaking SFT world cups
New Wave World Champions Crowned in Cabo Verde
Suardiaz and Berzolla crowned 2025 Wave World Champions in Cape Verde at the iconic spot of Ponta Preta
New rules a ‘game-changer’ for season opener
Athletes will be allowed to use power of the wing in Wave discipline for first stop in Cape Verde
Repeating world title win ‘is going to be tough’
Wave world champion Elena Moreno embraces new rules to push the sport's limits and force athletes out of their 'comfort zone'
Cappuzzo’s title race went down to the wire
Italy's Francesco Cappuzzo took successive titles in tight finish to FreeFly-Slalom season
MacDonald initially felt wingfoiling was ‘lame’
US's Chris MacDonald landed back-to-back Surf-Freestyle world titles and added Big Air crown
Suardiaz aware ‘the girls are coming for me’
In the year Nia Suardiaz scooped three world titles she reveals would like to add a fourth with the Wave crown
A clear World Tour structure!
Wingfoiling is a fast-growing watersport. The competitive wingfoiling scene is expanding rapidly.Events are popping up at every level, from national competitions to the elite World Tour, with Continental championships sitting in between.
The Wingfoil Youth World Championships offer young athletes a pathway to the senior World Tour.
On this page we outline the opportunities in the four World Sailing-sanctioned expression disciplines: Surf-Freestyle, FreeFly-Slalom, Wave and Big Air, in the various tiers of events staged worldwide.
Disciplines
Surf-Freestyle
Men | Women
The Surf-Freestyle discipline includes the expression format where competitors surf waves or swells and perform air tricks using the given water conditions.
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Men | Women
The FreeFly-Slalom discipline is a competition format with a start and finish line, focusing on the FreeFly sections. Competitors must pump, glide or surf without the power of the wing in the FreeFly sections, combining those skills with technical Slalom elements.
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Men | Women
Competitors in the Wave discipline purely surf waves in any surfing conditions from cross offshore point breaks, to onshore beach breaks. No jumps on the way out are counted for the competitors score.
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Men | Women
The Big Air discipline is all about amplitude and air time. The biggest and most spectacular jumps will score the highest.
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Upcoming events
When & where
Status
Winners
Surf-freestyle
Freefly-slalom
Leucate, France
16 - 22 April 2025
Prize money
25.000Status
Running
Surf-Freestyle Winners
Christopher MacDonald
Nia Suardiaz
Surf-freestyle
Tarifa, Spain (TBC)
24 - 27 June 2025
Prize money
15.000Status
Upcoming
Winners
To be announced
Finished events
When & where
Status
Winners
Surf-freestyle
Freefly-slalom
Cauipe, Brazil
21 - 24 November 2023
Prize money
€15.000Status
Finished
Surf-Freestyle Winners
Malo Guénolé
Bowien van der Linden
FreeFly-Slalom Winners
Oscar Leclair
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