Red Bull Battle of the Sund brought 250 kite boarders from 16 different nations together to rewrite the history of the great naval battle that took place November 8th 1658. The kiters started out from the Swedish city of Malmo, crossed the sund over to Denmark, and returned to Sweden. A course set up to be 40km, but the conditions with straight westerly winds and 15-25kts made it a tough upwind battle over to Denmark before they could charge downwind back to Sweden. Only 30 riders managed to finish the complete round, amongst them only 2 girls.
Camilla Ringvold from Norway won the women’s class, (17 in total) and crossed the finish line 27minutes before the second finisher, Anke Brandt from Germany.
Camilla has had a memorable last 9 months. After crossing the Atlantic Ocean with the «Enable Passion» team in Nov/Dec 2014, she continued to be a part of the first female team to ever finish the Varanger Arctic Kite Enduro, before she won the Red Bull Ragnarok in Norway in April, kited across the Greenland icecap from south to north in June and she is now the winner of the Red Bull Battle of the Sund.
