PWA Slalom X World Cup Fuerteventura - Highlights Day 4
The 2026 Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam is proving to be a true war of attrition with no pause to catch your breath from the relentless howling winds, which is testing the mental and physical attributes of the world’s best sailors to their absolute limits. Today marked possibly the most hardcore conditions of the event thus far as more 50 knot gusts were registered, while the rise in swell overnight caused further havoc on the racecourse. With a variety of courses being utilised today, including the infamous ‘Downwind of Death’, there were several huge wipeouts, and just making it to the end of the course was an achievement in itself.
It’s hard to put into words just how difficult the conditions were, but when you have professionals who would probably make 100 jibes out of 100 in normal conditions fighting for dear life just to stay on their boards, it should give you some context about just how extreme the conditions were.
July 26, 2026 © Youtube / @PWAWORLDTOUR | 04:38 minutes | World Map | Translation: DE
