German wingfoiler Malik Humeida sets 375km Guinness world record
Malik Humeida covered 375km in 12 hours on the Baltic Sea, smashing the old wingfoil mark by 116km and testing the limits of endurance, safety and gear.
Malik Humeida pushed 375 kilometres across the Baltic Sea in 12 hours, a staggering wingfoil haul that blew past the sport’s previous benchmark and put endurance at the center of the next performance frontier. The 20-year-old German racer from the Kiel area in Schleswig-Holstein completed the loop between Damp and Olpenitz, turning a measured course off northern Germany into a brutal examination of stamina, wind judgment and equipment reliability.
The distance mattered because the old mark was not close. Guinness World Records lists 259 kilometres as the greatest distance by hydrofoil wingboard in 12 hours, set by Greece’s Dimitris Apalagakis in Crete on 9 August 2023. Humeida’s 375-kilometre run topped that by 116 kilometres, a jump that underlines how quickly wingfoiling’s ceiling is rising as riders get stronger, conditions management gets sharper and equipment becomes more trustworthy under sustained load.
What made the effort more impressive was the way Humeida managed the middle and late stages. He had already moved beyond the previous record after nine hours and kept going to widen the margin, knowing the last three hours would decide how far the mark could be pushed. Those closing hours were the hardest part, with changing and at times strong wind conditions forcing constant adjustments and raising the kind of equipment concerns that define extreme foiling at this level. In a sport where a small problem can end a long-distance attempt, staying on foil for 12 hours became as much a systems test as a fitness test.
The record also depended on planning that went far beyond a free-form route. Guinness rules for this title require reproducible fixed points or surveyed markers, not a course chosen on the day, so Humeida’s team used two buoys whose distance was officially measured by a pilot. Independent witnesses, a logbook and video evidence were part of the package, and Humeida had been building toward the attempt since early 2025 after an earlier Heidkate-to-Denmark-and-back idea was rejected because it was not considered reproducible enough.
The attempt drew major attention in Germany and abroad, with television coverage and online reporting amplifying the achievement for Humeida, his support crew and his sponsors. He described the effort as the fulfillment of a childhood dream and thanked his team and family for helping him get there. With formal Guinness review still moving through the process in some reporting, the scale of the performance already tells its own story: wingfoiling is no longer just about speed and style, but about how far a rider, a route and a piece of gear can be pushed before one of them gives out.
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