Is windsurfing a sailing competition in Hangzhou Asian Games?

Windsurfing is a sailing competition in Hangzhou Asian Games.

Windsurfing refers to a kind of water sport in which a ship without rudder and cabin is pushed forward by the power of sails. It is a new water sport between sailing and surfing. Windsurfing consists of a board with stabilizer, a mast with universal joint, a sail and a mast. Athletes use the natural wind from the sail to stand on the board, control the sail through the mast to make the valve plate run at a certain speed on the water surface, and open the water surface by changing the wind center of the sail and the center of gravity of the board body, which can be done at sea or in rivers and lakes.

Because of its close relationship with surfing, it is also called windsurfing or windsurfing. The competition is divided into single, double and multi-player, as well as triangle bidding, long-distance running, obstacle course and free skating. At present, there is only one event in the Olympic windsurfing competition, which is triangle marking. Race in the same way as sailing.

Historical background

Windsurfing originated in the Hawaiian Islands, a world surfing resort in the late 1960s. 1965, Newman, an American, wrote "Sailing skateboard-a new exciting high-speed water sport" in Popular Science magazine, and introduced how to install sails on surfboards and run by wind. The windsurfing introduced in this paper requires people to operate the sails with their backs. Because this kind of operation does not conform to the laws of human anatomy, it is difficult to drive and has not aroused people's interest.

During 1967, a lengthened surfboard with a rotatable mast appeared in Mariner Harbor, California, USA, which was favored by teenagers. After that, it gradually formed a kind of sports, which was widely carried out in European and American countries. 1970 65438+ 10 In October, Malibu Sailing Club held a windsurfing winter invitational tournament, which was the first windsurfing competition in the world. The first world windsurfing championship was held in 1974. 1984 is listed as an Olympic event, which is the only one so far.