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7th GWA Tarifa Wing Pro 2026

Mar De Arce winner of the womens 6th GWA Tarifa Wing Pro 2025 © SamuCardenas Mar De Arce winner of the womens 6th GWA Tarifa Wing Pro 2025 © SamuCardenas

 

 

GWA Tarifa Wing Pro 2026

Welcome to the GWA Tarifa Wing Pro 2026 – the second stop on the GWA Wingfoil World Tour for Freestyle following Leucate (France) in April.W Tarifa, set on Spain’s radiant Costa de la Luz (Coast of the Light), is the perfect backdrop for this thrilling competition.

GWA Tarifa Wing Pro 2026

A line-up of 28 men, from 12 countries, will take to the water in Tarifa, which will either be graced by westerly Poniente breezes or cranking easterly Levante wind. The women’s rider fleet will be 17-strong, coming from eight countries. Similar number to last year.

A crop of up-and-coming new names profited from the stumbles of the Old Guard in France

Reigning GWA Surf-Freestyle World Champion (2025), Denmark’s Benjamin Castenskiold and Germany’s Marie Schlittenbauer, are competing in Tarifa again this year. Both will be eager to get their campaigns back on track at the Tarifa Wing Pro. It is still early days.

The young Dane, Castenskiold, still just 14, struggled to find his groove in the unusually light winds during the opening stop at Mondial du Vent, at Leucate, France, in April. He finished in ninth overall with 520 points and has work to do in Tarifa following Austrian Tomas Acherer already with 1.000 points.  

Schlittenbauer, 16, was forced to miss the opening call in Leucate as she was recovering from surgery. But she will return in Tarifa, one of four of the season’s remaining stops, giving her the chance to discard the score she missed in France. Marie is chasing local hero Nia Suardiaz who won her 1.000 points in Leucate.

Hailing from Tarifa, Nia Suardiaz clinched the Surf-Freestyle World Championship in 2023. She won again in Tarifa in 2024 and came second in 2025. Born to a Spanish mother from Cádiz and a German father, she will be eager to succeed in front of her hometown crowd, drawing on the perfect blend of passion and skill that her diverse heritage has given her. She took her first steps into the world of surfing in 2020, and by 2021 she was already making waves at the GWA Tarifa Wing Pro. 

 

Tarifa Wing Pro 2025 Rankings 

GWA Wingfoil World Cup Leucate 2026 Results

About the Athletes 

 

The 2026 World Cup tour events start in Dusseldorf again in January, Leucate (France) in April, Tarifa on 24 to 27 June, Gran Canaria (tbc) July, Fuerteventura (Canarias Spain) in August, Dakhla, Morrocco in October, Ilha do Guajiru, Brazil in November and Taiba, Brazil (tbc) in December.

 

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