Bjørn Dunkerbeck
Bjørn Dunkerbeck (born July 16, 1969 in Ribe , Denmark ) is a Danish-Dutch windsurfer , with 42 world championship titles one of the most successful professional athletes in the world. He is 191 cm tall and uses the sail number E-11 with which he starts for Spain . The son of Danish-Dutch parents, nicknamed Dunki, grew up in Gran Canaria and has a Dutch passport. Dunkerbeck is married and has four children.
Career
He started windsurfing at the age of nine. His professional career was promoted early on by his father, a hotelier. His powerful athletic style, combined with talent and ambition, brought him to the top of the world early on. From 1984 Dunkerbeck took part in the first World Cup races and started in 1985 for the first time at the Windsurf World Cup Sylt . Through his willingness to experiment, he drove the development of materials and was soon able to conclude well-paid sponsorship contracts with the surfing industry. Red Bull has been its main sponsor since 1996 . In the course of time, advertising contracts for various consumer goods followed. In Germany, he became known to a wide audience through his Nutella commercials.
Along with Robby Naish, Dunkerbeck is an icon of windsurfing. He is fluent in German, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian and English.
Since September 2011 he has been selling the “E11 Björn Dunkerbeck” sports sunglasses collection. The "Dunkerbeck Surf School" was founded in 1977 by his father on Gran Canaria and is still a family business, which is now run by Bjørn in Playa del Inglés .
On September 26, 2014 Dunkerbeck announced his retirement from professional sport as part of the Windsurf World Cup Sylt . In the same year he started the Dunkerbeck GPS Speed Challenge .
successes
All world titles from Björn Dunkerbeck:
- 12 × PWA Overall World Champion 1988–1999
- 5 × PWA Course Racing World Champion 1990–1994
- 5 × PWA Racing World Champion 1995–1999
- 9 × PWA Slalom World Champion 1988–1994, 2005, 2011
- 7 × PWA Wave World Champion 1990, 1992–1995, 1999, 2001
- 1 × PWA Freestyle World Champion 1998
- 2 × ISA Speed World Champion 1994, 2005
- 1 × ISWC Speed World Champion 2016
He achieved more than 100 individual victories in the PWA Windsurf World Cup and became the first windsurfer to be 42 times world champion in the various disciplines.
Between 2003 and 2006, Dunkerbeck repeatedly improved the world record for sail-powered watercraft over the distance of the nautical mile (1.852 km). His record of 41.14 knots was established in April 2007 by the French wing - Trimaran Hydroptère outbid.
Dunkerbeck at the German private broadcasters regularly ProSieben discharged Wok World Cup competition and was founded in 2006 and third in 2007, 2009 and 2010, first in "Viererwok". He also took part in the "big TV Total Stock Car Crash Challenge 2011".
literature
- Andreas Erbe, Alois Mühlegger: Bjørn Dunkerbeck - windsurfer. The life of the most successful professional athlete of all time. Delius Klasing, Bielefeld 2015, ISBN 978-3-667-10296-6 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Bjørn Dunkerbeck in the catalog of the German National Library
- Personal Website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Melanie Haack: Dunkerbeck unites love of freedom and family. www.welt.de, September 30, 2009, accessed May 1, 2013 .
- ↑ Surf and Body Board School
- ↑ Björn Dunkerbeck declares resignation! , Windrufers, September 26, 2014
- ↑ Dunkerbeck GPS Speed Challenge , English
- ^ Nautical Mile Records , World Sailing Speed Record Council, accessed August 4, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dunkerbeck, Bjørn |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dunkerbeck, Björn |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish-Dutch windsurfer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ribe , Denmark |