Björn Dunkerbeck
Bjørn Dunker Beck (born 16 July 1969, Ribe, Denmark ) is a Danish- Dutch wind surfers, with 41 world titles the most successful and thus one of the most successful professional athletes in the world. He is 191 cm tall and weighs more than 110 kg. His identification was sailing for years E -11 and that he will start in competitions for Spain. Since the summer of 2007 he started for Switzerland with the sail identification SUI - 11th The son of Danish- Dutch parents nicknamed Dunki grew up on Gran Canaria, has a Dutch passport and since the beginning of 2007, an official residence in Switzerland ( Silvaplana near St. Moritz ). He is married and has three children.
Career
At age nine, he began windsurfing. His professional career was encouraged by his father, a hotel owner in the morning. His powerful athletic style, combined with talent and ambition brought him early approach to the world elite. Due to its experimental nature, he pushed for the development of materials and could thus soon be flush with the surf industry well rewarded sponsorship deals. He has gone into the Windsurf World Cup in 1987 and was able to permanently prevail against Robby Naish. When he was for many years superior to all competitors in all disciplines, came to advertising contracts for consumer goods. In Germany he became famous for his Nutella commercials to a wide audience. Today he campaigns for the Austrian brand Red Bull
Dunker Beck applies not only to Robby Naish as one of the two icons of the windsurfing sport. Through his education and through sport, he is fluent in German, Danish, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian and English. It produces as Naish also own surfboards with the brand proof, but can not connect to the commercial success of his former rivals here.
From September 2011 Björn Dunker Beck went in cooperation with the firm Nigura Metzler Optics with its own sports sunglasses collection " E11 Björn Beck Dunker " on the market.
Achievements
All World Cup title by Björn Dunker Beck:
He had over 100 individual victories in the PWA and is the first windsurfer 41 - time world champion in the various disciplines.
On 31 October 2006, he was charged with 41.14 knots world record holder for sail -powered watercraft over the distance of the nautical mile ( 1.852 km ). This record was surpassed by the French hydrofoil trimaran Hydroptère on 24 April 2007.
Multiple took Bjørn Dunkerbeck part in the discharged from the private German broadcaster ProSieben Wok World Championship. In this television show he was in 2006 and third in 2007 and 2009 and 2010 First in " Viererwok ". In addition, he also took the "big TV Total Stock Car Crash Challenge 2011" part.
Objectives
In recent years, he was the PWA world championships no longer dominate, he will only participate in Wave, Slalom and speed competitions. He would like to break through the first 50 -node " sound barrier" and thus speed world record holder Antoine Albeau to outdo. Because he - except Olympia - has won everything there is to win, he wants to continue to spend more time exploring unknown surf spots with lots of wind and wave.