Competitions

Mimizan isn’t just a heavenly surf spot, it’s also a vibrant stage for competitions that attract local and international riders alike! Our beaches are regularly transformed into sporting arenas for events that get the surfing community going.

Don’t miss our flagship events!

Mimizan, land of surf

Mimizannais surfers have long taken advantage of the beautiful waves on their beaches, not only for their own pleasure, but also to promote our resort as a surfing destination, both nationally and internationally. Local champions who are members of the French national teams include :

Nicolas CAPDEVILLE: triple Bodyboard World Champion
Vincent DUVIGNAC: Two-time European Surfing Champion, currently ranked among the world’s top 100 surfers
Cédric DUFAURE: European Bodyboard Champion
Olivier SALVAIRE: French Masters Surfing Champion (+35 years)

With examples like these, Mimizan’s young surfers can only progress. Among the up-and-coming surfers hoping to follow in their elders’ footsteps in the years to come are Noah and Ethan CAPDEVILLE in bodyboarding and Noa DUPOUY in surfing, whose performances were remarkable in 2018 :

Noa DUPOUY, member of the French junior team, 2018 European individual champion in the U14 category (up to age 14), and European team champion
Ethan CAPDEVILLE, member of the French junior team, 2018 French cadet bodyboard champion, 2018 European team champion
Noah CAPDEVILLE, 3rd at the bodyboard world championships, 2018 French vice champion

Ethan Capdeville History of sliding

“I’ve always been a bodyboarder! In fact, since I was very young, I’ve been lucky enough to live by the ocean and spend my summers at the beach. As my father is a former world champion in the discipline, bodyboarding was a natural progression for me and my brother, particularly as part of his surf school. The Landes coast boasts some of the most beautiful waves in France, if not Europe!

At Mimizan, the waves are generally very powerful, allowing you to train both physically and technically. The great thing about surfing here is that there’s plenty of space to get in the water with very few people… So you can find yourself surfing with family and friends, which makes for a very convivial atmosphere in the water!

Bodyboarding is one of the best sports in the world. At first, it’s very secure and you can have fun very quickly. You can see yourself progressing! Go along with your friends, don’t take it too far, and above all do what you love! “

Tubes of the summer

In the past, Mimizan has repeatedly hosted national and international surfing and bodyboarding competitions:

French Championships,
European Championships,
Pro Am.

Every year, the two Mimizan clubs, Maeva Surf Club and Mimizan Surf Club, bid to host the French Surfing and Bodyboarding Cups.

The Mimizan Surfing Games is the French interclub championship, a relay competition for teams of 4 competitors and 1 coach.

It showcases the individual and collective values of surfers representing their clubs in a friendly, festive event.

Theprize: the title of French surf club champion.

Jeux d'O

Mimizan has a long history of surfing. Decades!

Recognition of surfing as an Olympic discipline goes back well before 2020. In fact, the father of modern surfing, Duke Kahanamoku, a Hawaiian who was an Olympic gold medallist in swimming at the time, is said to have expressed his wish to the International Olympic Committee in 1920 that surfing be included in the Games.

Recognition was also the aim of Argentinean Fernando Aguerre, when he was elected President of the International Surfing Association in 1994. In 2011, surfing was a finalist for the Games, but was ultimately not selected. It will have to wait until the 2020 Games.

In Tahiti, surfing has been shared by men and women for over a thousand years.

So it’s only logical that the events of the 2024 Olympic Games should be held there.

The mythical Teahupoo wave is one of the world’s top 10, impressive in both its height and power.