The Professional Windsurfers Association and Namaxa Agency are proud to announce the first Formula PWA racing event for 2002, “The Windsurfing Era PWA Formula Racing World Cup”.
The event will take place in Leba Poland in conjuction with the Polish Boardsailing Association and sponsorship of the biggest Polish mobile phone network Era. With Poland as one of the leaders in Formula Windsurfing through sailors participation, organization and overall structure, this event will be seen as a stepping stone for the future growth of the sport in Poland and will help establish Formula’s Global identity.
Marek Brzozowski from Namaxa says – “We are excited and motivated to work with the PWA and secure this event as the first PWA Formula Racing event for 2002, we look forward to a long and prosperous relationship and anticipate together, we can build Formula Racing up to get the World Wide credibility it deserves”.
Registration for the event will take place on August 6th, while racing will be from the 7th to 11th of August. The Racing no doubt will be very exciting, with all the top guns showing up including Formula World Champion and current leader in the PWA wave ranking Kevin Pritchard (Bic, Gaastra), Vice Formula World Champion and 2001 PWA Freestyle World Champion Antione Albeau (AHD, Neil Pryde) and former Formula World Champion Wojtek Brzozowski (Starboard, Neil Pryde). Other notables taking place will be the current Euro Cup leader Steve Allen (Fanatic) from Australia, PWA racing maestro Micah Buzianis (North, Mistral) from the USA and long time PWA pro Brian Rogild (Starboard) from Denmark.
In the women’s fleet, which has been dynamically growing this year we’ll see the double Formula World and European Champion Dorota Staszewska (Starboard,Neil Pryde), vice World Champion Lucy Horwood (AHD, Gaastra) and another top Euro Cup sailor Verena Fauster (Starboard, Gaastra).
PWA Chairman Phil McGain says – “We are very happy to welcome this event onto the PWA World Tour for 2002, it’s a big step for Formula windsurfing and will lead to a stronger global identity and an improved World Wide structure of which Formula is in need of. The racing and onsite organization will no doubt be first class with sailors, industry and media all anticipating the results”.
We look forward to welcoming the competitors onsite in Poland for this historical event.
Event entries will now be accepted at info@namaxa.com or fwc@fwc.pl or fax +48 602 145 602, +48 22 614 23 68.
For all event information go to www.WindsurfingEraCup.com and www.pwaworldtour.com
