About FREYA HOFFMEISTER
Freya Hoffmeister, born 10.05.1964, also known as “Goddess of Love to the Seas“, is a highly skilled open ocean-paddler who has undertaken the two world’s greatest timed sea kayaking continental circumnavigations, plus has numerous islands records to her name.
- World Paddle Award ”Sportswoman of the Year”
- National Geographic “Adventurer of the Year”
- “Outdoor” European Adventurer of the Year
- KANU Magazin “Paddlers Pick” 2015
- DKV “Botschafterin des Kanusports”
- LKV S-H “Ehrenmitglied”

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An all-round paddling athlete, Freya, besides thrilling long-distance sea kayak expeditions, enjoys also surf ski racing, open water marathon and Greenland style rolling. As for ocean racing, she won the Arctic Sea Kayak marathon in Norway in 2004, came second in the 2006 300 km circumnavigation of the island of Fyn (Denmark) and she completed the then and now still woman’s record around the Isle of Man (UK) in 14.07 hours.
Competitively, Freya also won the overall women’s category at the 2006 Greenland National Championships, taking 8 golds in Greenland-kayak rolling and racing – never had an overseas competitor been so successful. Freya’s achievements in endurance open ocean paddling and numerous other sports, below, are nothing short of super-human.
Activities and achievements off the water:
- 10 years of competitive gymnastics
- 5 years of competitive Body-Building
- 6th in the Miss Germany beauty contest
- 10 years of skydiving (1500 jumps, first female tandem pilot with 500 jumps with a passenger), has skydived over the North Pole and in numerous record-formations
- 30-year business entrepreneur: seven ice cream cafés, a salad bistro, a large Christmas shop
- She gave birth to her son Helge in Jan 1996