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Marnie Bertram is the 2026 SFT Pump Foil World Champion
Three event wins and a second place across the Surf Foil World Tour season: at 16, Marnie Bertram takes the pump foil world title on the Surge.
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Raiarii Fadier second overall at the Molokai 2 Oahu 2026
Second across the Ka'iwi Channel in a year when 37 of 123 starters did not finish.
Dave Kissane wins the Maui to Molokai over-50s, 2026
Second in 2024, first in 2026: Dave Kissane tops the over-50s in the Pailolo Channel.
Kaiwi Loui second in the Maui to Molokai under-18s, 2026
A youth podium in the Pailolo Channel for one of the next generation of AXIS downwind racers.
Trent Gordon wins the Maui to Molokai over-40s, 2026
A division win in the fierce conditions of the 2026 Pailolo Channel crossing.
Kai Thompson second overall in the Koa Kai Triple Crown 2026
Fourth at the Molokai 2 Oahu, second overall across the three races, and a Maliko run record on stock gear.
Holland Vierling second in the under-19s at the 2026 US Wing Foil Nationals
Second U19 and ninth overall on San Francisco Bay in his first big wing foil class race, on AXIS foils.
Livio Menelau takes the Molokai 2 Oahu 2026
Something Livio has chased for years: the win in the Channel of Bones, in a glassy year where line choice was everything.
Kai Thompson third in the Maui to Molokai 2026
Race one of the Triple Crown: an awesome battle through the Pailolo Channel and a podium to start the journey to Oahu.
Michael Scholes wins the wing foil division at the Paddle Imua 2026
First place in wing foil on the Maliko run for the New Zealander, on AXIS foils.
Kai Thompson third at the Paddle Imua 2026
Another podium on the Maliko run, the short, intense opener of Maui race week.
First place at King of the Bay, Rewa, on the Surge 740
AXIS arrives in Poland and wins the long-distance race, inflatable kitefoil category, on the Surge 740.
Brian Tallarico wins the Oahu Foil race series over-40s
Nineteen races, best six counting, and a division win in the longest of them: Turtle Bay to Mokuleia, roughly 20 miles.