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West Coast Board Shop
West coast board shop is a surfing and sports shop at Viale San Martino 7, Oristano, Sardinia, Italy; phone +39 0783 300453, open Monday to Saturday 09:45-13:15 and 16:30-20:15. Unrelated namesakes exist in Chico, California, and Comox, British Columbia.
Whitney Hedgepeth
Whitney Hedgepeth (Whitney Lynn Hedgepeth-Luther, born 1971) is an American swimmer and coach, two-time Olympian, 1996 gold medalist in the 4x100 medley relay, 27-time All-American at Texas, and Longhorn Aquatics Masters head coach.
Wildwater canoeing world championships
ICF Wildwater Canoeing World Championships, first held 1959 in Treignac, France; biennial classic titles since 2002 with sprint, plus annual sprint-only worlds since 2011; 2026 host Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Wilfrid Forgues
Wilfrid Forgues, now Sandra Forgues, French slalom canoeist born 1969 in Tarbes; with Franck Adisson won C2 slalom gold at Atlanta 1996 and bronze at Barcelona 1992, and transitioned beginning 2016.
Will Satch
Will Satch (William Spencer Satch, born 1989), British rower, Leander Club; Olympic bronze in coxless pair London 2012 with George Nash, Olympic gold in men's eight Rio 2016, and three consecutive world eight titles 2013-2015.
Willi Eichhorn
Willi Eichhorn, full name Wilhelm Eichhorn, was a German rower of the Mannheimer Ruder-Club von 1875 who won Olympic gold in the coxless pairs at the 1936 Berlin Games.
Willi Kuhweide
Willi Kuhweide (Wilhelm Kuhweide), German sailor born 1943 in Berlin, won Finn gold at Tokyo 1964 after a Cold War selection dispute, Star bronze at Munich 1972, three Finn Gold Cups, and competed at five Olympics.
Willi Menne
Willi Menne (Wilhelm Menne, 1910–1945), German rower of Würzburger RV Bayern; Olympic gold in the men's coxless fours at Berlin 1936 (7:01.8) with Eckstein, Rom, and Karl; killed in action in Slovakia in March 1945.
Willi Padge
Willi Padge (1943–2023), German rower and coxswain of the 1960 Rome Olympic gold-medal men's eight (5:57.18), the first non-US eights champion since 1900; also 1958 and 1959 European champion.
William Carl Buchan
William Carl Buchan (born 1956, Seattle) is an American sailor, 1984 Olympic Flying Dutchman gold medalist crewing for Jonathan McKee, son of Star gold medalist William Earl Buchan, and 1988 America's Cup winner aboard Stars & Stripes.
William Earl Buchan
William Earl Buchan (born 9 May 1935, Seattle) is an American Star class sailor, 1984 Olympic gold medalist with Steve Erickson, three-time Star world champion (1961, 1970, 1985), and father of same-Games gold medalist William Carl Buchan.
William Exshaw
William Edgar Exshaw (1866-1927), British sailor and brandy merchant of Arcachon, France; won two 1900 Paris Olympic gold medals in the 2-3 ton class aboard the yacht Ollé with Frédéric Blanchy and Jean le Vavasseur; namesake of Exshaw, Alberta.
William Meynard
William Meynard, French freestyle sprint swimmer born 1987 in Marseille (CN Marseille), Olympic 4x100 m relay silver at Rio 2016, world and European relay titles, two-year break then comeback.
William Paulus
William Paulus, Fort Worth, Texas swimmer; 100m butterfly world record holder (53.81), 1980 U.S. Olympian barred by the Moscow boycott, and 11-time All-American who helped Texas win its first NCAA swimming title in 1981.
William Yorzyk
William "Bill" Yorzyk (1933-2020), American swimmer, first Olympic champion in a butterfly event, winning the 200 m butterfly at Melbourne 1956; set 11 world records, became an Air Force anesthesiologist, ISHOF inductee 1971.
Willie Foster
Willie Foster (William Foster, 1890-1963), English swimmer for Great Britain; 1908 Olympic 4x200 m freestyle relay gold in world record 10:55.6, 1912 bronze; youngest male British Olympic gold medalist through 2016.
Willis Sanburn
Willis H. Sanburn (c. 1920–2011), American freestyle swimmer at Yale; lead-off leg on the 3:50.8 world-record 4x100 m relay (1940) and captain of Yale's undefeated 1940–41 team; Deerfield 1937.
Willy Blioch
Willy Blioch (1932-2022) was a French freestyle swimmer of the Racing Club de France, a non-Olympian who set the 4x200 m freestyle relay world record (8:33.0, Marseille 1951) with Boiteux, Jany, and Bernardo, and was credited with the flip turn.
Willy Bruderlin
Willy Brüderlin, full name Wilhelm Brüderlin, was a Swiss rower from Zürich who won Olympic gold in the men's coxed four at the 1920 Antwerp Games.
Willy den Ouden
Willy den Ouden was a Dutch freestyle swimmer who won two silvers at the 1932 Olympics, relay gold in 1936, and set 15 world records.
Willy den Turk
Willy van den Turk (Wilhelmina den Turk, 1908–1937), Dutch swimmer; 1927 European 100 m backstroke champion and world record holder (1:22.0) who withdrew from the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics before swimming.
Willy Gilbert
Willy Gilbert (Willy Carl Jens Gilbert, 1881–1956), Norwegian sailor from Bergens Seilforening, Bergen; won Olympic gold at Antwerp 1920 in the 10-metre (1919 Rating) class aboard Mosk II, unopposed.
Willy Lützow
Willy Lützow (Wilhelm Bernhard Adolf Emil Lützow), German breaststroke swimmer, born 1892; 1912 Olympic silver in the 200 m breaststroke, 100 m breaststroke world record 1:16.8 in 1914; missing in action 1915 at Tahure, France.
Willy Rosingh
Willy Rosingh (Wilhelm Herman Conrad Enno Rösingh, 1900-1976) was a Dutch rower of club Laga Delft who won gold in the men's coxless pairs with Teun Beijnen at the 1924 Paris Olympics, the first Dutch Olympic rowing gold.
Wiltrud Urselmann
Wiltrud Urselmann (Urselmann-Haverkamp), German breaststroke swimmer born 1942 in Krefeld; 1960 Olympic silver in 200 m breaststroke, 1960 world records at 100 m and 200 m, 1957 German Sportswoman of the Year.
Wind Surfing Deinze
Windsurfing Deinze vzw (WSD) is a windsurf and SUP club in Deinze, East Flanders, Belgium, on a former sand pit (Surfput Florizoone) up to 6 m deep; it offers certified lessons, youth training, camps, rental, and pump foiling, with swimming forbidden.
Windsurf And Kite Spot
Windsurf and kite spot, a named windsurfing and kitesurfing location near Colola in Iglesia Department, San Juan Province, Argentina, at about -30.1770, -69.0996, a year-round flat-water venue near the Cuesta del Viento Dam.
Windsurf Kitesurf Spot
Windsurf Kitesurf Spot is an OpenStreetMap node (12982032627, sport=surfing) in Fryslân, Northern Netherlands, at 53.49162°N, 6.14573°E, a mapped launch point for windsurfing and kitesurfing near Opduin.
Windsurf School Brouwersdam
Windsurf School Brouwersdam, founded by Uwe Jendrusch and Pieternel van der Linde as a mobile school in the 1980s, is a large windsurfing school in Ouddorp, the Netherlands.
Windsurf Station
Windsurf Station: family-owned windsurfing school and rental at Školjić beach, Cape Kamenjak, Premantura, Istria, Croatia; VOWS-certified instructors, courses from €70, Bura/Jugo/Mistral winds; distinct from namesake stations in Mallorca, Ammersee, and Rhodes.