Our Athletes

Maris Galenieks

Discipline: Technical race, Marathon, Dragon

EO equipment: NEBULA 14.0x22, JUNO 14.0x23, FORTIS-C 95

Co-founder and main production specialist. He is the person promising to stop at the next gas station during a road trip. Some-how “next gas station“ is usually 3 hours away.

4th place 2018 SUP Dragon World Championship
3rd place 2019 SUP Dragon World Championship
1st place 2024 SUP King Marathon (100km) - Salaca 100

Chris Jones

Discipline: Touring, All-round

EO equipment: NEBULA 14.0x23, OTI 90, FORTIS 90, FORTIS 95

Chris is the data geek at SUP My Race. He also is the guy who sometimes forgets to take the board with because it is all about the GPS watch! And he will try to get you to paddle an extra km with him before uploading his data.

8th place in 2019 Swedish National series
1st place overall in 2021 Scandinavian SUP league

Young guns

Maris Galenieks Jr.

Discipline: All-round, Dragon

Background: Kayak sprint

Chief Snack Officer (CSO), Snack Acquisition Lead, Head of Product (Snack) Management.

1st place 2019 SUP Dragon World Championship
1st place 2021 Latvian Junior Championships in K2 class (kayak sprint)
5th place 2021 Olympic hopes regatta (kayak sprint)

Marcis Galenieks a.k.a. “MC“

Discipline: All-round

Background: Kayak sprint

This is that guy, who will be asking right after the race: “How was this sport called, again?“.

1st place 2019 Latvian Open SUP Championship in U16 Technical Race
1st place 2021 Latvian Junior Championships in K2 class (kayak sprint)
5th place 2021 Olympic hopes regatta (kayak sprint)


Our Technical Staff

Artis Strazdins

Co-founder. Our engineer and mechanics freak (we also call him “ze brain”). If you can’t find him, he is probably working on new projects.

Arturs Strazdins

Co-founder. Our marketing and communications guy. Funny, always positive and eager to help out. Does Copy&Paste with mouse clicks.