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This year we took the decision to reward the outstanding performance of one of our (unfortunately) very few female contenders. Sofia Koukouzeli!

Sofia is every year among those speed surfers , who upload most of the sessions and scoring very remarkable results. Also in 2022 she was the well deserved winner of the female ranking and also ending up on 28th place overall!

By giving the main prize to Sofia we want to recognize her passion for the sport and the performance she is showing every year. Of course, we would like to see more woman competing in 2023 and we also hope this is an encouraging and motivating signal for all the fast girls around!

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Thalassa Suites in Afiartis, Karpathos – one of our longest sponsors the prize of an one week stay a this beautiful and comfortable apartments will go this year to Sofia – Congratulations, we are sure you will enjoy this!

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The ‘Four Seasons’ is very famous among windsurfer in Karpathos offering one of the best pizzas and traditional greek food on the island. Perfect for restoring your energy level after some hard speed session. 

The prize of a free dinner for four persons goes to 2. Place Man Eric Groot van Ederen.

Enjoy the food and atmosphere at this stunning place!

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As the ‘home’ of the Odyssey of Speed, directly situated on the spot at Devils Bay, Afiartis, Karpathos we are very grateful that MELTEMI WINDSURFING Karpathos remains to be one of our most important supporters and sponsors. Also the winners of the 2022 edition several prizes have been offered and are distributed among the contenders as follows:

1. 2 weeks  storage box for one person. 1. Place Man Twan Verseput

2. 1 week storage box for one person. 4. Place Man Tim Otte

3. Hoodie Meltemi Windsurfing. 3. Place Man Alex Petikids

4. T-shirt Meltemi Windsurfing. 5. Place Man Roberto Hofmann

5. Lycra Meltemi Windsurfing. 6. Place Man Christian Bornemann

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The ‘Four Seasons’ is very famous among windsurfer in Karpathos offering one of the best pizzas and traditional greek food on the island. Perfect for restoring your energy level after some hard speed session. 

The prize of a free dinner for four persons goes to 5. Place Man Christian Bornemann.

Enjoy the food and atmosphere at this stunning place!

As the ‘home’ of the Odyssey of Speed, directly situated on the spot at Devils Bay, Afiartis, Karpathos we are very grateful that MELTEMI WINDSURFING Karpathos remains to be one of our most important supporters and sponsors. Also the winners of the 2021 edition several prizes have been offered and are distributed among the contenders as follows:

1. 2 weeks  storage box for one person. 1. Place Man Twan Verseput

2. 1 week storage box for one person. 2. Place Man Eric Groot van Ederen

3. Hoodie Meltemi Windsurfing. 4. Place Man Tim Otte

4. T-shirt Meltemi Windsurfing. 6. Place Man Minos Efstathiadis

5. Lycra Meltemi Windsurfing. 7. Place Man Konstaninos Papandrikopoulos

With MAUI ULTRA Fins one of the most innovative fin brands is supporting our event. Among the participants two of their fins are shared. The winners are:

1. Place Woman Sofia Koukouzeli
3. Place Man Alexandros Petikidis

Both can choose a G10 fin from the large portfolio of Maui Ultra fins.

This year we have the pleasure and honor to give a special prize to Stephanos Grapsas. Stephanos in his age of 76 is competing every year on our event with very remarkable results. He is spending a lot of time on the water and when its windy you have a good chance to meet him at the spots around Patras , such as Drepano. With this special prize we recognize his passion for the sport and the performance he still shows every year – a true legend of our sport in Greece!

Thanks to the generous sponsorship of Thalassa Suites in Afiartis, Karpathos – one of our longest sponsors the prize of an one week stay a this beautiful and comfortable apartments will go this year to Stephanos – Congratulations, we are sure you will enjoy this!

Karpathos continues to deliver!

Excellent conditions on Karpathos allowed some riders to climb up in the ranking and two German names are now in fourth and fifth place.

No change at the at the Top Three, but it is very close behind.

Over 600 session uploaded, 17.800 km sailed!

The overall score board: 

1. Twan Verseput 4,8 points
2. Eric Groot van Ederen 14 points
3. Alex Petikidis 18,7 points
4. Tim Otte  20 points
5. Christian Bornemann 30 points
6. Konstantinos Papandrikopoulos 34 points

download detailed results (per 26.08.2021):

Overall

Best Category results so far (per 26.08.2021)

Category Ranking

Note: all results marked in ‘yellow’ are corrected as they have been achieved with ‘non-Doppler’ GPS devices.

All posted session and results can be seen in the event section at GPS-SPEEDSURFING

Persistence pays off!

Another group of speeders is currently competing on Karpathos. After ten days of preparing and waiting, the 14^th of August brought the expected good speed conditions. Christian Borneman, Tomislav Jaklin and myself (Tim Otte) scored all PBs on that day, Christian scored with 72,60 km/h (39,2 knots) the third best 5×10 sec average this year!

No change at the top of score board, Twan and Eric sitting in a solid lead position, with Alex, Konstantinos and Minos the greek speed elite behind, and four germans now under the Top Ten – and still some time to go!

Over 500 session uploaded, 15.500 km sailed!

The overall score board: 

1. Twan Verseput 4,8 points
2. Eric Groot van Ederen 14 points
3. Alex Petikidis 18,7 points
4. Konstantinos Papandrikopoulos 31 points
5. Minos Efstathiadis 32 points
6. Tim Otte 45 points

download detailed results (per 15.08.2021):

Overall

Best Category results so far (per 15.08.2021)

Category Ranking

Note: all results marked in ‘yellow’ are corrected as they have been achieved with ‘non-Doppler’ GPS devices.

All posted session and results can be seen in the event section at GPS-SPEEDSURFING