West Aussie Dale Stanton has taken out the 25km kite surfing marathon on the fourth and final day of the 2014 Lancelin Ocean Classic.

Stanton negotiated a 15-18 knot breeze from Ledge Point to be first on the beach at Lancelin in a time of 24min 39 sec, more than a minute quicker than his closest rival.

“I’m just stoked to cross that line first, it’s a hard event but it’s so much fun. It’s run really well and the whole community gets right behind it which always make it a great event to compete at.” Stanton said.

Torvar Mirsky was the next man across the line recording a time of 25mins 56 sec while Johnno Keys rounded out the top three in 26min 33 sec.

It’s the second year the event has featured a kite surfing marathon and 56 athletes took part in the race.

Johnno Keys wrote about the Ledge To Lancelin kite race in the forums:

"Super fun as always got myself a 3rd place behind Dale 1st & Tovar 2nd - and super happy with result as my designed orange slalom board is back to speed & super fun to ride & was very fast in the light wind race - - in the marginal 13 to 15knot winds I used a 19m edge & 30m lines and had a few moments of 25knot board speed in the gusts & was winning from the half way mark to last 500m of race but had a massive brain fade at finish and went to wrong Red bull tent on beach 500m up beach from finish line and after jumping off my race board on beach & had to kite back out to sea and down to finish line - Doh.

Best race after L2L and a great crew of kiters on beach all day. The coarse was well laid out with large boats on very mark and was a pleasure to race. Thanks heaps to WAKSA lads and all the sponsors. Congrats to Dale Tovar, Pilot Pete & Alty in top 5 an all the racers today - to much fun "


Dale "The Bushranger" Stanton takes line honours: