Connor Baxter

Last weekend, Michael Booth won his 3rd Carolina Cup Graveyard Race crown while Starboard Teammates Connor Baxter won the Technical Sprints on Day 2  and new Starboard rider Noic Garioud managed to recover from a heartbreaking 11th place due to end-of-race cramps in the long distance with a silver medal. Daniel Hasulyo was hoping for […]

C’est le gros coup du mercato hivernal 2021 / 2022 en SUP race. Le double champion du monde néo-calédonien, Noïc Garioud vient de rejoindre la Dream Team de la marque Starboard après cinq années passées chez Sunova. Dès la Carolina Cup, qui devrait être sa première compétition internationale de l’année à la fin avril, “Chicken” […]

Team USA Dominated Day One of the Carolina Cup, as Danny Ching and April Zilg Take Victory in the Graveyard Race. Danny Ching and April Zilg swept the field in the Graveyard Race, as taking an alternative line to the rest of the pack proved triumphant for team USA. Whilst the Coast Guard called for […]

Oregonian Fiona Wylde and New Caledonian Noic Garioud both picked up their second gold medals for the weekend as the International Canoe Federation’s Stand Up Paddling world championships came to an end in Balatonfured, Hungary, on Sunday. > Full Results of the ICF SUP Worlds 2021 < Wylde added the women’s technical world title to […]

Noic Garioud picked up New Caledonia’s second gold medal of the weekend and Russia’s Elena Prokhorova ended a 20-year world championship drought by winning the sprint titles at the International Canoe Federation’s stand up paddling titles in Hungary on Saturday. 19-year-old Garioud pipped reigning world champion Connor Baxter in a thrilling men’s finish to the […]

Despite the sanitary context, one of the most beloved events on the SUP Race planet took place last week in Hood River, Oregon : the Columbia Gorge Paddle Challenge, which has been sponsored by SIC Maui since 2018. Some of the best US paddlers and a handful of international racers, gathered at the start of […]

The excitement is building up as we are less than one month away from the 2021 ICF SUP Worlds that will take place on Lake Balaton in Hungary from September 9th to September 12th which I will have the pleasure to co-announce. Like in 2019 in Qingdao, all the events are open to everyone and […]

In the past 24 years, Japanese waterman Tomo Murabayashi aka SUP Tomo, FOIL Tomo or just Tomo, hasn’t spent many days away from the ocean. After years of windsurfing, kiting and stand up paddling, he was in 2016 one of the earliest takers and subsequently pioneers in the Foil revolution the watersport world has been […]

Russian SUP racer Andrey Kraytor is throwing down the gauntlet with a bold statement!  The Sprint Canoe Olympian who finished 4th on the last ICF Worlds 200m Sprint in China – after only 2 years of SUP racing – is confident that he will beat the Hawaian champ – and technically American – Connor Baxter’s […]

We are excited to share the news of the 2021 Starboard SUP hard board and paddle collection. So what are the highlights in this season at Starboard? 2021 Starboard LIMA PREPREG CARBON The catch of the Starboard Lima has been improved with a very direct catch and ability to redirect automatically.  More info: https://sup.star-board.com/paddle-board-paddles/lima-paddle/ […]