Martin Vari (born February 27, 1982 in Argentina) is a professional kitesurfer and two times PKRA freestyle world champion in kitesurfing (2001 and 2003). 2007 he won the first PKRA wave contest.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation. The sovereign state is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Martin Vari is into kitesurfing since 1999. His passion is kiting in waves. He is one of the pioneers, bringing kitesurfing into the waves.
2009 Martin Vari founds his own label "Vari Kites" to develop and sell kitesurfing equipment.
In 2011 he was involved in a public scandal, when a home-video recorded with his ex-girlfriend Silvina Luna was leaked and made public in Twitter.
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