Zara Davis

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Zara Davis during one of her record attempts in Lüderitz, Namibia.

Zara Davis (born July 13, 1966 in Bristol ) is an English windsurfer .

Davis holds the women's world speed record over a nautical mile for sailing vessels, which she achieved in Namibia in 2006 and which has been confirmed by the World Sailing Speed ​​Record Council . She also holds the 500 meter world record for women in windsurfing, which she drove in November 2012 in Lüderitz , also in Namibia. At the same time she achieved the so-called Women's Production Board Speed ​​Record there because she was using a Mistral Speed ​​Board from series production. Zara Davis is ranked number 1 worldwide by the International Speed ​​Windsurfing Class (ISWC) , for the first time in 2010.

At 13, she started windsurfing, which her father John taught her. She works as an osteopath and acupuncturist and has built a complementary medical center in Portishead near Bristol . At the national level, she started from 1999 to 2001, winning the slalom women's title of the British United Kingdom Windsurfing Association (UKWA) in 2000 . In 2004 she shifted her focus to high-speed windsurfing to win the women's class title during Weymouth Speed ​​Week almost every year until 2012 : 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. At 23.44  Knot also holds the Portland Harbor women's record .

With her height of 183 centimeters and her weight of 75 kilograms, she is perfectly suited in terms of leverage and strength to achieve high speeds as a female windsurfer. She is the first person to hold two official sailing speed records. She won the first one in October 2006 with an average speed of 34.7 knots in Walvis Bay in Namibia as the new world record for women for sailing vessels over a nautical mile, which was the previous record set by French Valerie Ghibaudo in 2005 surpassed a knot. In October 2012, she went on to do this by increasing the women's windsurfing speed record over 500 meters to 45.83 knots - which Karin Jaggi , Switzerland had previously held for nine years at 41.25 knots. This regained its record in 2015 with 46.31 knots.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Record list of the 500 m distance
  2. ↑ UKWA
  3. ↑ Boardseeker
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Zara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English windsurfer and multiple world champion
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bristol , England , UK