Europe
Reports from the 2007 ISAF World Championships
Sunday, July 1st, 2007Sean has just arrived in Cascais, Portugal for the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships. In the year preceding the Olympic Games, ISAF take control of the World Championships for each of the Olympic Classes and run a combined event. Cascais, on Portugal’s west coast, got the gong for this year’s event and with the consistently [...]
Sean wins the Return of the Super-8
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007The return of the Neil-Pryde Super-8 Slalom was hosted in the Netherlands last Sunday and featured some of the world’s best slalom sailors such as Micah Buzianis (US-34) . Despite the lousy forecast, nine races were held in light-wind slalom conditions. On Saturday the competition took off at 1:00pm, with 7 heats followed by a [...]
Euro Cup - Silvaplana, Switzerland
Monday, August 21st, 2006Sean has returned home early from the Euro-Cup event in Silvaplana, Switzerland. After a crash on the startline of the first race, Sean injured his neck. Nothing too serious, but it prevented him from racing again for a few days, and Sean thought it best to return to Holland and spend some time recovering in [...]
PWA World Tour, Fuerteventura
Sunday, July 30th, 2006The 2006 PWA World Tour came to Fuerteventura in July for the 2nd Slalom 42 Grand Slam event. Fuerteventura is one of the larger Canary Islands, a little out to sea off the north western coast of Africa. This was Sean’s first PWA World Tour event and there was no better place to do it [...]
NK-WINDSURF, Hargen Aan Zee
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006The third event of the NK-Windsurf Series in Holland happened last weekend at Hargen aan Zee which was part of a massive Volleyball, Kitesurfing and Catamaran showcase event. After a slow start in the first race Sean had a great start in Race 2 to lead for two laps only to be pipped on the [...]
Sean
O'Brien is a 24 year old Professional Windsurfer hailing from Brisbane, Australia
- a purpose driven elite 
