Leonard Nika is an Italian-Albanian rider born in 1987 and currently living in Portugal. He began surfing at age of 10 when his family moved from Torino to Rome near the coast in Italy. After many surfing competitions around Italy, in the summer of 2008 Leonard was introduced to SUP and a few months after taking the first wave with a Stand up paddle board, he had already climbed the rankings in the Italian and European competitions both Wave and Race. Currently runs the world competing for the leading brand Starboard. Italian champion 4 time consecutive from 2012 to 2015, European champion Race 2012 and 2013, is one of the top 5 riders in the world.
23 Nov 2018
Following the open ceremony of the ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship. The afternoon kicked off with the Men’s SUP Surfing event. A total of 12 heats provided an exciting start to the event with chest to head high waves at the renowned left point break of Riyue Bay. Photo Credit: Sean Evans USA’s two-time SUP […]
1 Aug 2018
The APP World Tour has announced the event Red Bull Heavy Water will take place from the 15th October to the 2nd November held in San Francisco, California. The event is quite possibly the most intense stand up paddling event in the world, will showcase top performing athletes in the ~12km (7.5 mile) course, and has […]
4 Jun 2018
What a great weekend it was in Santa Pola, Alicante at the 1st edition of the World SUP Festival Costa Blanca, an international SUP racing event organized by SUP Club Parres Watersports founded by Daniel Parres, and part of the Eurotour 2018. With more than 300 participants it was a real success with a great […]
2 May 2018
Last weekend the Florence Paddle Games came to town, set in the beautiful location of the Canottieri Firenze with the iconic Ponte Vecchio the setting added great atmosphere to the paddlers, with crowds gathered alongside the course and some real battles taking place it was a truly exciting race! The paddle games kicked of on Saturday morning […]
3 Apr 2018
The Uffizi SUP Race is back! After a 2 year pause, the race has been relaunched, with a collaboration between Toscanasup, Martino Rogai and Riccardo Tonini this race has been made a fixed stop for the Italian circuit, and the race has been recognized as “regional event” of the Paddle League and will be valid for the world […]
5 Oct 2017
Martin Vitry est en train de dompter année après année les Pacific Paddle Games. Vainqueur en junior devant les meilleurs jeunes de la planète lors de sa toute première participation l’année dernière, le rider d’Oxbow SUP revient de la plus grosse SUP race du calendrier mondial avec deux top 10 en Pro Men sur la […]
17 Aug 2017
Team Italy Team Members Leonard Nika- 06/16/1987- Techical Race, SUP Surf Claudio Nika- 07/06/1996- Sprint, SUP Surf Paolo Marconi- 01/16/1991- Technical Race, Long Distance Martino Rogai- 03/07/1988- Long Distance – Relay Caterina Stenta- 11/25/1987- Long Distance- Technical Race – SUP Surf Chiara Nordio- 06/29/1998- Long Distance- Technical Race Laura Dal Pont- 12/15/2002- Sprint- Relay Alessia […]
2 May 2017
It was another great Stand Up Paddle weekend! We had great races all around the world, from Greece to Hawaii, from Spain to the USA. Take a look at our overview of the results. Malibu Downwinder, California, USA: Congrats to Toby Cracknell who wins the Malibu Downwinder on a 12’6 in perfect conditions. 2nd Giorgio Gomez also […]
20 Mar 2017
By Nuno Pereira from SUP Norte In 2014, Nick Robinson, from South Africa, paddled 32km in the Guadiana River, from the town of Mertola (Alentejo, Portugal) to Alcoutim (Algarve, Portugal). The experience was exhilarating for him. He told new paddleboard friends about his adventure and they clamoured to go down again with him. Six months […]
20 Oct 2016
In the absence of a live stream, video summary or press release (we expect them to appear in the coming hours), here is all the info that TotalSUP has managed to gather for our readers about the Red Bull Heavy Water event that took place in San Francisco yesterday. Red Bull Heavy Water Results: 1. Conner Baxter […]
5 Oct 2016
By James Casey, JP Australia SUP Racer and new contributing writer at TotalSUP.com — What an experience. I’ve never been to California for a stand up paddle event and for my first to be at PPG2016, I am totally blown away. The Battle of the Paddle and more recently Pacific Paddle Games have always been […]
23 Aug 2016
This weekend took place the Naish Columbia Gorge Paddle Challenge 2016. This is a very famous and important challenge in which one all the best paddlers in the world participate each year. You can find below a recap and the results of all the races. Recap : Remenber last year, there was […]
5 Jul 2016
Here is the race report of the stop number 9 of the EuroTour by Belar Diaz which took place in Greece this past weekend. Greece On Board Festival – Moraitis Beach The 9th stop of the EuroTour presented by Starboard saw us heading to Marathon in Greece on the 2nd and 3rd July. The II […]
