Bowien van der Linden
| Parawings | Duotone-associated (specific models not published in tracked sources) |
Cabarete spot guide → Stashing mid-ride → SFT Lake Garda 2026 results
Start with the number: 4th. That is where Bowien van der Linden, a Dutch foil racer, sits in the 2026 SFT Downwind Parawing World Cup overall women’s ranking, the first sanctioned world series in the sport. She is Duotone-associated and also races the SFT pump foil series.
Her place in the 2026 rankings
Per the SFT rankings as of July 2026:
| Result | Ranking | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 4th, Women overall | 2026 SFT Downwind Parawing ranking | SFT rankings |
| 12th, Women (8th at the Düsseldorf stage) | 2026 SFT Pump Foil ranking | SFT rankings |
Fourth overall puts her directly behind the established podium of Manon Dupé, Mae Haas and Viola Lippitsch, and makes her the leading Dutch woman in the discipline’s first season. For scale: the women’s fleet at the inaugural Leucate stage was 9 riders (SFT/Mondial du Vent), and the season ran through Cabarete, Dominican Republic (June 17–21), where the SFT stage with Cabarete Wing Fest carried a total prize purse of $3,000. Read that number again. Nobody in this fleet is racing for money yet. One caveat on the record: per the SFT ranking breakdown, her points all come from Leucate (4th at the stage); she scored none at Cabarete, so her overall 4th rests on a single stage.
What the Duotone association tells you
Duotone’s parawing program is the Stash, co-developed by Finn and Jeffrey Spencer with designer Ken Winner. Jeffrey Spencer’s summary of the concept, “packing it mid-session and just riding — no wing in your hands… When powered, it gets you on waves early and makes going upwind way easier than paddling” (Duotone), describes exactly the skill split that hybrid SFT racecourses reward: canopy work on the upwind and crosswind legs, then stash mid-ride and race on bare foil. Her exact race sizes and foil setup are not published in the sources we track, so we list none.
Her pump-foil racing is the other real signal. An SFT pump foil racer (8th at the Düsseldorf stage, 12th in the women’s standings as of July 2026) can drive a foil with no power source at all. In a discipline where you spend the decisive legs hands-free, that is the transferable skill, not canopy handling. Duotone’s own warning to converts applies to everyone entering this fleet: “Don’t expect Parawinging to be as easy as Wing Foiling — it’s not!”
Where to follow her season
The overall ranking updates after every stage, and the next data points come from Lake Garda. Watch our SFT Lake Garda 2026 results page, check the Cabarete spot guide for the venue of stage two, and browse the riders hub for the rest of the 2026 women’s fleet.