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11th October 2023

Mayo Mayhem Attracts Top Names for Ireland's Biggest Windsurfing Competition

Mayo Mayhem, Ireland's biggest windsurfing competition, was held last Friday and Saturday on Elly Beach Belmullet Co Mayo.

This year, the Mayhem event achieved a ranked two-star event on the International Windsurfing Tour.

Elly Beach was filled with colour as the competition attracted close to 50 windsurfers in both the Pro and Armature fleets.

The event had a mix of the best of Irish competing side by side with international competitors from France, Germany, Belgium and Scotland.

Mayo Mayhem - Competitors were scored on their massive Jumps and loops in the air and how they surfed the powerful Atlantic waves Photo: Eugene T Cunningham

The conditions were perfect with strong southerly winds and three metre waves.

Competitors were scored on their massive Jumps and loops in the air and how they surfed the powerful Atlantic waves. Results below

Pro Fleet
1st Niclolas Quemener (France)
2nd Dieter Van Der Eyken (Belgium)
3rd Finn Mellon (Ireland)
4th Julius Byrne (Ireland)

Women's
1st Katie Mcanena (Ireland)
2nd Aoife Cooke (Ireland)
3rd Amy O'Donnell (Ireland)

Amateur Fleet
1st Tom Lotocki (Poland/Ireland)
2nd Colin Colville (Northern Ireland)
3rd Phil Hayden (Ireland)
4th Sean Keane (Ireland)

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Mayo Mayhem Windsurfing Wave Competition Success for Alex Duggan on Achill Island

Mayo Mayhem windsurfing wave competition held its fifth edition on Achill Island, in County Mayo, at the end of September, and the organisers have released a post-event video (below).

The Mayo Mayhem weekend results also decided the Irish windsurfing wave title.

The competition was held in superb condition for a windsurfing wave competition, with Keel beach looking more like Hawaii as it was sunny all weekend with side shore winds of about 20 knots and good size waves of up to three metres.

Previously the competition has had two starboard and two Port tack conditions; this year, it was back to starboard tack. These conditions allowed the competitors to show their wave-riding skills and super-high jumps and loops. In total, there were 36 competitors across the Pro and Amateur fleets.

Two days of competition were run with points awarded each day, and then the points were combined to get an overall result.

In the end, the Pro fleet win went to Alex Duggan, with Julius Byrne in second and Nial Mellon in third.

In the Amateur fleet, Ross Gsamelov took the win from Bob Hagan in second, with Ant Byrne in third.

There was particular praise for Amy O'Donnell, the only female competitor to take on these fun but challenging conditions.

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The most significant events for the Half Ton Class has been the annual Half Ton Cup which was sailed under the IOR rules until 1993. More recently this has been replaced with the Half Ton Classics Cup. The venue of the event moved from continent to continent with over-representation on French or British ports. In later years the event is held biennially. Initially, it was proposed to hold events in Ireland, Britain and France by rotation. However, it was the Belgians who took the ball and ran with it. The Class is now managed from Belgium.