Simon Pettifer

"Windsurfing is pretty much everything, it's challenging, exciting, fast, fun, frustrating and occasionally terrifying lol. It's where I met most of my friends and my partner. Its the best sport in the world."

Nationality
UK

Discipline
Slalom/Speed

Homespot
Poole / Weymouth

Date of Birth
19/03/1975

Sail No.
GBR 67

I learnt to windsurf in Cyprus aged 10, after 3 years in the Mediterranean I was hooked for life. From Cyprus we moved to the UK where I realised it was a little tougher in the cold lol. Then I spent a couple of years in Gibraltar, where I obviously went to Tarifa alot…learnt to cheese roll and jump, amazing times. Then back to the UK where I started racing aged 15/16. Got into the British Youth squad and that was that. Competed for the next 7 years

Then I took a long break from Windsurfing and started again aged 33….now I just seem to be getting faster haha maybe its just the equipment, maybe it's my training partner Jenna who knows ……

Latest Results

2023 Weymouth Speed Week Champion

2023 2nd British Speed championship

2023 3rd British Slalom championship

2022 3rd British Slalom championship

2nd British Speed championship

2021 2nd Weymouth Speed Week

2019 2nd British Speed championship

2021 1st British GPS speed foiling Champion

2020 1st Mauritius Attitude Challenge

2019 3rd British Speed Championship

2019 2nd Mauritius attitude challenge