PWA Athletes

Biography

Windsurfing History

2013 ranked 10th overall PWA Wave
2010 ranked 7th overall PWA Wave
2009 4th overall PWA Wave
Best results:↵ (2009-2011)
- 7th PWA Wave Overall 2010↵
- 7th PWA Wave Klitmoeller 2010↵
- German Wave/Freestyle Champ 2010↵
- 2nd Surf Cup Sylt Wave/Freestyle 2010↵
- 9th PWA Wave Pozo 2010↵
- Windsurfer of the Year 2009 (Actionsports Awards Germany)↵
- 4th PWA Wave Overall 2009↵
- 2nd PWA Wave Sylt 2009↵
- "Best Move" & 2nd Team Reunion Wave Classic 2009↵
- 3rd Overall Flens Cup Sylt 2009↵
- 2nd Wave/Freestyle Flens Cup Sylt 2009↵
- 7th PWA Wave Pozo 2009↵
- 3rd DWC Slalom Norderney 2009↵
- 3rd Downwind Dash Capetown/Langebaan 2009↵
- 2nd IFCA Wave Classic Big Bay/Capetown 2009
Windsurfing since ’92, competing since ’95.
Top 3 in the German tour 2000-2004 in Wave and Freestyle.

How i became a windsurfpro...
I was born in 1979, right between my two brothers in the small town Aurich, close to the north sea. My parents own a little wooden house at a lake (pic 2), so i had contact with water since i was a baby (pic 3). The lake is located close to our hometown, so we could reach it by bike easily and it was just a question of time, until we tried the old board of our parents (pic 4). The 'virus windsurfing' infected me. I put all my money together and bought my first small board, a Fanatic Mosquito. Finished school with the abitur in 1998 and moved to the island Norderney for a year of civil service. That was my entry to wavesailing.
I started competing and got my first sponsors. Boards by Fanatic, sails by ART, later Arrows (pic 5), clothing from Chiemsee (pic 6). Since that year on Norderney i was ranked top 3 in the discipline Wave-Freestyle in germany. In 2000 i moved to Kiel and started studying sport-science. In the same year i entered my first Worldcup of the professional worldtour PWA.
The last years i've been travelling to most the PWA-events all over the world (pic 7). For training in wintertime i mainly go to South Africa or Hawaii (pic 8), or travel around the globe to explore the unexplored coastlines for Wind and waves (pic 9). Since beginning 2006 i'm sponsored by Neilpryde.

Sailor history

Best results:
2018 9th Sylt wave
2016 ranked 11th overall PWA Wave, 5th Sylt
2015 ranked 10th overall PWA Wave, 5th KIA Cold Hawaii
2014 ranked 8th overall PWA Wave
2012 ranked 7th overall PWA Wave
2010 ranked 7th overall PWA Wave
- 2009 ranked 4th overall PWA Wave
- 2008 ranked 6th PWA Wave
- Red Bull Storm Rider 2006
- 2nd Wave-Freestyle DWC-Tour 2006
- 1st PWA Wave Sylt 2005
- 5th Air Madagascar Windsurf Challenge 2005
- 25th Hawaii Pro PWA Wave 2004
- 13th Gran Canaria PWA Wave 2004
- 1st Sylt PWA Wave 2004
- 9th PWA Wave Overall 2004
- 2nd Red Bull Soulwave 2004
- 1st Supersession Red Bull Soulwave 2004
- 2nd DWC Norderney - Wave-Freestyle 2003
- 3rd Eurocup Sylt - Wave-Freestyle 2003
- 17th Worldcup Fuerteventura – SuperX 2003
- 4th German Campionships Norderney – Slalom 2003
- 1st Soulwave Klitmoller - Overall (Windsurfing+Surfing) 2003
- 17th Worldcup Sylt – Wave 2003
- 3rd in the DWC final ranking 2002 (Wave-Freestyle)
- 2001: 2nd in Wave/Freestyle DWC Norderney
- 4th overall, 3rd in Freestyle DWC Büsum
- 3rd in Wave/Freestyle international german championships
- 2000:1st in first Freestyle DWC Amrum
- 5th DWC Norderney
- 1997: 2nd German junior championships
- 1995-1997 Winner "Super 8" Germany

I was born 1979 in Aurich, northern Germany. In 1992 me & my two brothers had our first touch with windsurfing.
With the age of fifteen i joined the first competitions & it was going good.
1998 was the first year of the german tour DWC, 2000 my first pwa worldcup on Sylt.
1998-2000 i was living on the island Norderney (best german wavespot), from 2000 i'm studying sport-science in Kiel & move around the globe as a professional windsurfer.