Agnes Wicander wins again as Shenzhen eFoil setup breaks speed records

Agnes Wicander left Shenzhen with more than another victory. The new Waydoo eFoil setup produced record-breaking speeds at the Wuzhou Shanghaiwan Hotel, and Wicander turned that pace into a second straight win, strengthening the early shape of the 2026 title race.

Shenzhen mattered because it was not just another stop on the calendar. The SFT E-Foil World Cup ran May 17-19, drew 47 riders from across the globe, and marked the first World Tour event ever held on Chinese soil. In that field, the sharper layout rewarded riders who could accelerate cleanly and hold speed through the course, and Wicander proved again that she is setting the benchmark. The setup seemed to amplify precision and confidence on the Waydoo boards, while anyone who needed time to settle in was forced into chase mode almost immediately.

That second win also carried weight because it followed her season-opening victory in Morocco only a week earlier. The Morocco stop at Marchica Lagoon Resort was the debut race of the 2026 SFT e-foil season and the first-ever SFT E-Foil World Cup in Morocco. Waydoo said that event brought together 26 riders from around the world and featured time trials, mass-start races, a 1.5 km long-distance sprint and head-to-head eliminations, a format that rewarded all-around speed instead of one-off flashes.

Wicander’s run is becoming more convincing because it is backed by older evidence, too. In last year’s Lake Garda event, she won the women’s division and finished only 1.5 seconds off Piet Varkevisser’s best time, a result that showed she could stay close to the overall pace even in a tight 6-buoy format. The SFT had already crowned its first e-foil world champions in Abu Dhabi in October 2025, so the discipline is still young enough for each early result to matter. With back-to-back wins in Morocco and Shenzhen, Wicander has become the rider everyone else is now measured against, while Manel Arpa’s parallel success in Shenzhen added to the sense that the tour’s pecking order is starting to harden.

The broader context also gives the result business and social weight. Fayçal Guennouni has said Morocco wants to become a central player in the emerging e-foil industry, and Loubna Boutaleb tied the lagoon setting to sustainable development because e-foils are quiet and produce no direct emissions. That is why Shenzhen resonated beyond the podium: the race was fast, the field was deep, and the season suddenly has a clear front-runner.