Klaas Voget

Born in the small town Aurich in the northwest of Germany, Klaas grew up not far from the sea ever since he was a child. after high school diploma, he moved to the northsea island norderney to do his year of civilian service before entering the University of Kiel in 2000, which was also the year of his first PWA event. in the winter of 2007/2008 Klaas finished university with an m.a. degree in sports science, since then he’s partly living in Hamburg and partly around the globe in search of wind and waves as a professional windsurfer.

born: 24th April 1979
residence: Hamburg, Germany
profession: windsurfer, m.a. sport science
hight: 180cm
weight: 72kg
windsurfing since: 1992
competing since: 1994, PWA worldtour since 2000
discipline: wavesailing
sail number: G4
best world ranking: 4th (7 years in top 10)
training grounds: german north- and baltic sea, Denmark, canary islands, chile, South Africa, Hawaii