Zara Davis
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Zara Davis is an English windsurfer. She holds the World Women’s Nautical Mile speed record for a sailing vessel. The record was achieved in Namibia in 2006 and ratified by the World Sailing Speed Record Council
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She is also the British Women’s 500m Speed record holder for a sailing vessel and ranked 2nd in the world by the ISWC in 2008.
Started windsurfing when she was 13 taught by her father John and started competing at British national level in 1999 - 2001 winning the British UKWA Women's Slalom Title in 2000.
She turned her focus to speed windsurfing in 2004. Taking the Women's overall title at Weymouth Speed Week, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. She also holds the ladies Portland harbour record at 32.44 knots.
2005 Finished 6th in the world overall on the Speed World Cup Tour and PWA slalom.
Zara is 183 cm (6 ft) tall and weighs 75 kg this is accepted as a great build for a female speed sailor, giving her the strength and leverage to achieve high speeds. In October 2006 she established a new women’s speed world record for sailing vessels over a Nautical mile by averaging 34.7 knots at Walvis Bay
Namibia, surpassing the previous speed record set in 2005 at the same spot by French sailor Valerie Ghibaudo by over a knot. She also broke the British record with a new 500m record at 37.24 knots which had stood for over 11 years. All records were acknowledged by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
Zara achieved No 1 status on the official ISWC Women's world ranking for 2010
She also achieved a new Women's Production Board Speed Record in Luderitz Namibia in November 2010 on her Mistral Speed Board.
World Sailing Speed Record Council
The World Sailing Speed Record Council, founded in 1972, is the body authorized by the International Sailing Federation to confirm speed records of sailing crafts on water . In the early years the council only dealt with claims of speed records on a one-way leg of 500 metres...
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She is also the British Women’s 500m Speed record holder for a sailing vessel and ranked 2nd in the world by the ISWC in 2008.
Started windsurfing when she was 13 taught by her father John and started competing at British national level in 1999 - 2001 winning the British UKWA Women's Slalom Title in 2000.
She turned her focus to speed windsurfing in 2004. Taking the Women's overall title at Weymouth Speed Week, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2010. She also holds the ladies Portland harbour record at 32.44 knots.
2005 Finished 6th in the world overall on the Speed World Cup Tour and PWA slalom.
Zara is 183 cm (6 ft) tall and weighs 75 kg this is accepted as a great build for a female speed sailor, giving her the strength and leverage to achieve high speeds. In October 2006 she established a new women’s speed world record for sailing vessels over a Nautical mile by averaging 34.7 knots at Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay , is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies...
Namibia, surpassing the previous speed record set in 2005 at the same spot by French sailor Valerie Ghibaudo by over a knot. She also broke the British record with a new 500m record at 37.24 knots which had stood for over 11 years. All records were acknowledged by the World Sailing Speed Record Council.
Zara achieved No 1 status on the official ISWC Women's world ranking for 2010
She also achieved a new Women's Production Board Speed Record in Luderitz Namibia in November 2010 on her Mistral Speed Board.