PWA 2021 Schedule

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Dear Friends

We hope you are all well and finding your way through the unprecedented times we have found ourselves in over the last year.

As I am sure you can all imagine, the enormous levels of uncertainty, surrounding travel and large scale events, have had a significant impact on the PWA and the PWA Tour. Despite huge efforts on the part of our event organisers, 2020 saw only 2 events take place, with the very successful 1 Star Slalom World Tour event in Croatia, and enormously popular Youth Wave World Cup in Klitmoller both managing to avoid the worst of the pandemic and go ahead as planned.

Despite the challenges, we have been working hard with our event partners to ensure that top flight windsurfing does not disappear and that we can get back on the water, to compete, as soon as possible.

To that end, we are pleased to release a tentative schedule of events that we are working to bring you for 2021.

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Although there are no guarantees as to what will be possible this year, we wanted to let you know as much information as we could at this stage, to allow riders to start to plan, assuming we are able to get back on tour. Where we have relatively solid information such as event dates or disciplines, we have listed them but we must stress that, due to the pandemic, it is still possible that anything could change, and events may be rescheduled to different dates, switch to different disciplines, or change in status from World Cup or Grand Slam to something lower. In the worst cases, it may be that we are forced to cancel events.

We will keep you updated with any changes to the calendar as they develop but, in the meantime, stay safe and we hope to see you on the water soon.

Kind regards

The PWA

Dear Friends

We hope you are all continuing to stay safe and well.

Since we published our tentative schedule just under a month ago, the progress towards the lifting of COVID restrictions has not progressed as quickly as we might have hoped. Although the long term outlook is still positive, we have been monitoring the situation closely with our event partners and there are a few changes that we want to let you know about.

Unfortunately, due to the ongoing uncertainty of current circumstances, the events in France, Costa Brava and Portugal have had to be cancelled for the 2021 season. In each case, local authorities have not been able to give any indication of if or when the ban on events might be lifted, and permission granted for the events to go ahead. That uncertainty has also led to commercial support being deferred to the 2022 season and has prevented other financial support from being confirmed in time for proper event planning to continue. Although postponing to later in 2021 has been considered, no viable options were available, making it impossible for the events to continue this year. The cancellations are purely due to the pandemic though, meaning that work done to realise the events in the 2021 season will not be lost, with all events expected to return in 2022.

On a more positive note, the Slalom World Cup at Tiberias in Israel, has been moved to 21st to 25th June which will give the event even bgreater assurance of great conditions. Many of the required permissions for the event to take place are already in place and we expect to be able to fully confirm the event in the near future.

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The remainder of the calendar remains unchanged currently, and we must stress again that all events remain TBC due to COVID at this time.

We will bring you more news of any calendar developments as they happen.

Kind regards

The PWA

Dear Friends

We hope you are all well and continuing to find your way through these unusual times.

We are excited to be gearing up for the first return of PWA World Cup Slalom in 18 months in Israel in a few weeks, but unfortunately the news elsewhere on the tour is not as positive. Efforts to combat the pandemic have made great steps forward as vaccination programs have been rolled out, but these programs have not taken effect as fast as had been hoped and there are still considerable restrictions in place, as well as a lot of uncertainty about when those restriction can be reliably expected to be removed.

Every event is different and the exact reasons that decide whether an event can go ahead or not vary, but in each case, COVID-19 has been the cause of those issues. The decision to cancel an event is not one that the PWA takes itself, but that has been taken locally by either the local event organiser, local or national authorities whose permission is required for the event, or by sponsors or other bodies funding events, based on the circumstances they find themselves in.

As we have got further and further into the year, the time left for the impact of the COVID pandemic to be reduced has become less and less and, now, unfortunately, we have to announce the cancellation of several events due to COVID-19 restrictions.

All three of the Canaries events have had to be cancelled due to ongoing uncertainty about restrictions, and increased costs created by the pandemic, meaning that there will not be events at Pozo, Fuerteventura or Tenerife for the second year running. The ongoing construction work at the beach at Pozo also created significant difficulties.

The new slalom event planned for Sri Lanka has now been postponed until 2022 also, after the local tourism authorities, who are heavily supporting the event, decided that they would have to postpone due to increasing COVID levels in the country.

The biennial PWA Tour visit to New Caledonia has also been cancelled for 2021 due to substantial travel restrictions that remain in place with no projected easing in good time for the event to go ahead.

In each case we thank our local partners for their continued efforts despite the challenges they have faced, and we look forward to being able to bring the tour back to all of our regular venues in 2022.

The Croatia slalom event will go ahead, and we are currently studying options to potentially upgrade the event from a 2 star event to a full counting 5 star World Cup, in light of other cancellations and to provide more top level competition for the riders, the fans and the industry. We will bring you more news as this situation develops.

The remaining events on the calendar in Korea, Klitmoller and Sylt are all still in planning and we have high hopes that they can go ahead.

As always, we thank you for your understanding in the complicated times we are all going through, and we will bring you more updates as we have them.

Kind regards.

The PWA

Zitat von c-bra

ich kann das nicht so wirklich verstehen, warum die PWA garnixmehr gebacken bekommt.

C19 betrifft ja alle - länder und sportarten und verbände.

gerade im windsurfen ist es mmn relativ einfach, einzelsport, im freien, kontaktfrei, wenig leute.

es finden segelregatten statt, windsurfregatten auf verschiedensten niveaus, vermutlich auch olympische spiele.

Giro d italia viele andere radrennen

jetzt gleich fast das ganze jahr zu canceln kann ich nicht nachvollziehen und finde das auch für den sport sehr nachteilig

Alles anzeigen

Die Reiseauflagen für die Athleten und Verantwortlichen sprechen klar dagegen und dann noch die lokalen, begrenzten Möglichkeiten für die Ausrichter samt der zu beschaffenden Gelder im 6-stelligen Bereich je Event.

Das macht die PWA ja nicht selbst, die PWA reist "nur" mit ihrem Stab an und erhält ein Rundum-Sorglospaket.

Auch wenn du es immer noch nicht wahrhaben möchtest, aber es geht immerhin nicht nur um die kurzen Momente der Ausübung des Sports bei Kontaktvermeidung usw.

Gruß

Totti

Zitat von c-bra

das betrifft aber alle klassen und sportarten

wenn iQFoil aktiv ist radrennen stattfinden etc. geht das auch.

wo ist der unterschied zwischen einer ifca jugend WM und einem PWA event

evtl. liegt es an den 6 stelligen budgets und weniger an c19

resiebeschränkungen für spitzensportler sind schon länger kein grosses thema mehr, di pwa jungs sind ja eh ständig unterwegs ( wie viele andere auch)

sogar die efpt hat schon einen contest durchgezogen

Vielleicht sind die anderen Klassen/Sportarten entweder rücksichtsloser, oder in den stattfindenden Ländern sind die Auflagen lascher oder die organisieren aus eigenen liquiden Mitteln...?...

Oder, oder oder...

Zitat von c-bra

gut präventionskonzepte haben nix mit rücksichtslosigkeit zu tun, eher im gegenteil.

Das Beamen wurde bisher leider nur theoretisch erfunden, das blendest du gerne bemerkenswert aus.

Es geht nicht um den Moment vor Ort auf dem Wasser oder der Moment du mit deiner Frau im WoMo, sondern die gesamten Kontakte auf dem Weg uvm.

Zitat von c-bra

in dem mail das Totti-Amun eingestellt hat

auch sri lanka und new caledonia abgesagt, CRO von ** auf ***** upgraden

und es stehen nur mehr korea klitmöller und sylt am programm

Planungssicherheit brauchen alle Beteiligten. Ich kann mir auch nicht vorstellen, dass die anderen Events stattfinden, inkl. des surf Festivals.