Asger Smidt

When grassroots rider passion sparks a thriving SUP community, backed by watersport organisations with a shared vision for growth, good things can happen. As we approach the annual charity-driven, SUP4Life event (12km canal race) and the Belgian SUP racing season finale, held on 15 December in Ghent, TotalSUP sat down with Vincent Claeskens, Founder and […]

Preparations for the 2024 ISA SUP and Paddleboard Championship, taking place from September 16-22 in Copenhagen, Denmark, are gaining momentum. The event will feature a variety of exciting side activities celebrating sport, music, culture, and food, all part of the Copenhagen Paddle Festival surrounding the championships. A highlight of the festival is the eagerly awaited […]

Here are the podium results and the daily LIVE webcast replay of the exhilarating clash of European nations of the ESF EUROSUP Championship which took place on the stunning coast of Peniche, Portugal, on 14-22 October 2023! Spain takes its first ever Team EUROSUP Title home! EUROSUP 2023 Nations 1. SPAIN 2. FRANCE 3. ITALY […]

Two words: Asger Smidt . We met this die-hard gamer turned SUP athlete, Overall Danish Champion 2023 and Starboard Team Rider in Malmö, Sweden as he was tearing the technical and long distance races up. Ambitious, hungry and tremendously hard working, at only seventeen, Asger brings explosive and elegant paddling style to the SUP racing table. […]

The athlete line-up for the upcoming Skrea Strand Paddlerace 2023 presented by Baltic Lifejackets is warming up. Held on the 12-13 August, Sweden’s largest SUP competition is the ICF SUP World Ranking Race and the Swedish Long Distance Championships with both local and international SUP talent competing in Falkenberg. In the run up to the […]

As EUROSUP 22 Denmark is around the corner, Jesper Carlson, a key player in the Danish SUP team (which placed 2nd in the last EUROSUP in 2018) as he was recently appointed Sports Manager (or Sportschef in Danish) of the Danish Surf & SUP association. Although Jesper lives 200 meters from the beach on a […]