Kite World Champions
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Kite World Championship is played to determine the world champion at Kiteboarding. The current page contains the list of All World Champions at kiteboarding.
Disciplines and organizations[edit]
| Discipline | Organization | World Tour Status |
|---|---|---|
| Kite-Surf (Wave & Strapless Freestyle) | Global Kitesports Association (GKA) | Yes |
| Freestyle (Twintip big-air & freestyle) | Global Kitesports Association (GKA) | Yes |
| Twintip Big-Air | Big Air Kiteboarding League (BAKL) | No |
| Park | Kite Park League (KPL) | No |
| Race/Speed/Slalom/Boardercross | International Kiteboarding Association (IKA) | Yes |
History[edit]
International kiteboarding has several promoting organizations and has undergone many changes in the governance of the sport, including long-lasting disputes between several of those entities, trying to negate each other the right to promote sporting events.[2] The significance of the associated economic activity could explain part of such turbulence, but the intense rate of innovation and of adoption made it difficult to conceive, regulate and formalize the new competitions, and offer opportunities for new players specializing in new variants of the sport.
Some of those international organizations are (or were):
- The Professional Kiteboard Riders Association (PKRA), and the Kiteboard Pro World Tour (KPWT), both of which promoted several international tour competitions since 2002, however not as Kiting governing bodies.
- The Global Kitesports Association (GKA) - Industry association which federates several industry stakeholders organizers of competition world tours.
- The International Federation of Kitesports Organizations (IFKO), established in 2016 as a not-for-profit kiters association, covering also land and snow kiting, claiming to be the only legal kiting governing body over WS.
- The World Kiteboarding League (WKL) which had promoted freestyle competitions in 2017.
- The Kiteboarding Riders United (KRU) which is an informal union of the professional kiteboarders, since 2016.
- The Kite Park League (KPL) which is dedicated to international competitions in kiteboarding parks.
- The International Kiteboarding Association (IKA), based in Gibraltar, a company, not an association, created by World Sailing to unite kite national associations. Organizer of several racing events tours.
- World Sailing (WS), formerly the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), a private company which has promoted sail and boating since 1907. Since 2008, the WS claims to affiliate the IKA as its kiteboard racing body.
Several world cup events are sanctioned by the WS on behalf of the International Olympic Committee, a private association.
KPWT exchanged endorsements with IKA in 2009. Both become opposing parties as the IKA also got an agreement with PKRA. IKA threatened and banned riders which take part in competitions without its endorsement.
In 2015, the PKRA was sold to a group of investors, becoming the Virgin Kitesurfing World Championship (VKWC).
The WS itself has split the governance of its own events between the GKA for the expression disciplines and the IKA for the racing disciplines. The GKA has then split the expression disciplines, choosing to run the Wave and Strapless Tour themselves, while ceding to the World Kiteboarding League to run the freestyle events and the Kite Park League to run the park events. The freestyle events were then handed to the Kiteboarding Riders United (KRU).[3]
List of Chamipons[edit]
| Year | Association | Big Air - M | Big Air - F | FreeStyle - M | FreeStyle - F | Kite-Surf - M | Kite-Surf - F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | GKA[4] | Andrea Principi
[Duotone] |
Mikaili Sol
[Duotone, ION] |
Gianmaria Coccoluto
[Duotone, ION] |
Mikaili Sol
[Duotone, ION] |
James Carew
[Duotone, ION] |
Capucine Delannoy
[North, Mystic] |
| 2022 | BAKL[5] | Giel Vlugt
[Ocean Rodeo] / Andrea Principi [Duotone] |
Justine Avril
[Duotone] |
- | - | - | - |
| 2021 | GKA[6] | - | - | Arthur Guillebert
[Eleveight] |
Mikaili Sol
[Duotone, ION] |
James Carew
[Duotone, ION] |
Peri Roberts
[Naish] |
| 2021 | BAKL[7] | Janek Grzegorzewski
[Core] |
Pippa van Iersel
[Duotone] |
- | - | - | - |
| 2020 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 2019 | GKA[8] | - | - | Valentine Rodriguez
[Duotone] |
Mikaili Sol
[Duotone, ION] |
Airton Cozzolino
[Duotone] |
Carla Herrera Oria
[Ocean Rodeo] |
| 2018 | GKA[9] | Carlos Mario
[Slingshot] |
Mikaili Sol
[Duotone, ION] |
Carlos Mario
[Slingshot] |
Mikaili Sol
[Duotone, ION] |
Airton Cozzolino
[Duotone] |
Jalou Langeree
[North, Mystic] |
| 2017 | WKL[10] | - | - | Carlos Mario
[Slingshot] |
Bruna Kajiya
[Airush] |
- | - |
References[edit]
- ↑ "The Kite Disciplines". GKA Kite World Tour. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
- ↑ "IKA, PKRA, KPWT, IKF, ISAF: What does it all Mean?". The Kiteboarder Magazine. 2010-07-09.
- ↑ SurferToday.com (ed.). "World Kiteboarding League is no longer sanctioned by World Sailing". Surfertoday. Retrieved 2019-05-28.
- ↑ "Rankings 2022". GKA Kite World Tour. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
- ↑ "2022 Rankings". Big Air Kite League. Retrieved 2023-01-29.
- ↑ "Rankings 2021". GKA Kite World Tour. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
- ↑ "2021 Rankings". Big Air Kite League. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
- ↑ "Rankings 2019". GKA Kite World Tour. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
- ↑ "Rankings 2018". GKA Kite World Tour. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
- ↑ "Congratulations to our 2017 Champions! - World Kiteboarding League". 2018-10-04. Archived from the original on 2018-10-04. Retrieved 2022-12-04.
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