Puerto Rico to host 2022 ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship

SUP Racing and Paddleboard Racing are set to take place in the heart of San Juan’s renowned Laguna del Condado and Bahia de San Juan. SUP Surfing is tentatively scheduled to take place in “La 8”, a well-known local break with multiple peaks of sloping waves that break left and right with exposure to most swell directions.

2022 will mark the ISA World Championship’s return from an absence due to the global pandemic and will be the 9^th edition of the event that crowned the first World SUP Champions in 2012 in Peru.

Succeeding editions of the event were held across four continents in Peru (2013), Nicaragua (2014), Mexico (2015), Fiji (2016), Denmark (2017), China (2018) and El Salvador (2019), exemplifying the universal appeal of the sport.

Record participation was reached in 2017 when 286 athletes from 42 nations descended upon the waterways of Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as the country’s rugged northwest coast known as Cold Hawaii.

At the last edition in El Salvador, Justine Dupont and Benoit Carpentier, led team France to first-ever Team Gold Medal. El Salvador burst on to the SUP scene in 2019 welcoming 161 athletes from 27 countries with an outstanding competition in the world class waves at El Sunzal.

The ISA WSUPPC is the premiere and original World Championship for the disciplines of SUP Racing and Surfing, having crowned undisputed World Champions in the sport since the event’s 2012 inception.