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Current Record - Jean Le Gall completes a 561.6 km windfoil distance challenge in a 24-hour window - 561.6 km
World Record Snapshot
- Record Title
- Greatest windfoil distance in a 24-hour challenge window
- Discipline
Windsurf Foiling- Class
- Open / Distance
- Measured Result
- Distance: 561.6 km - (Higher is better)
- Date
- 2025-07-08
- Has Stood For
- 10 months, 14 days as of 2026-05-22
- Location
- Gruissan, France, France
- Record Holder
- Jean Le Gall
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How This Epic Thing Went Down
Windsurf Journal's interview says Jean Le Gall recently covered more than 560 km on a windsurf foil in Gruissan. Supporting reporting on the feat gives the total as 561.6 km during a window from Monday 7 July at noon to Tuesday 8 July at noon. In the interview, Le Gall explains that he chose Gruissan for strong wind and flat water, began around midday, stopped during the night after a nearby forest fire, falling wind, and poor visibility made continuation unsafe, resumed at 5:30 a.m., and finished the challenge at midday. He also recounts a violent foil impact with a fish that broke his boom into three pieces before the team brought a replacement. The row records the full reported distance while preserving the published challenge context instead of presenting it as uninterrupted nonstop sailing.
Rules of the Beast
Qualifying attempts must be conducted on a foil-equipped windsurf board powered by a conventional windsurf rig. The published source must state a total distance in kilometers and describe the attempt as a 24-hour challenge, 24-hour window, or directly comparable day-long distance project. A track, event report, rider interview, or organizer report is preferred. Breaks, equipment failures, and safety pauses may be included when they are part of the publicly described challenge window, but the notes must make the context clear. Entries that are simply long rides without a comparable 24-hour framing should use a different series.
How This Got the Nod
Interview and supporting event coverage establish the 561.6 km challenge total and date window.
Video Proof From the Vault
Jean Le Gall covered 561.6 km in a windfoil challenge framed around a 24-hour window from 2025-07-07 to 2025-07-08.
Previous Freaks Holding This Record
Before this mark took the throne, these earlier accepted records were set.
- Frédéric Houdier reports 571 km in a windfoil distance challenge - 571 km
2025-07-01 (month precision) | Frédéric Houdier | Distance: 571 km | Stood for 1 week until broken on 2025-07-08