She has been the women’s kiteboard racing world champion twice, Heineken was born in 1986[1] and she was on a sailing boat when she was a month old.
[2] Her father, Paul Heineken, was a member of a sailing club and she won a woman skipper event with him in 2006 in a 29er dinghy at the US Nationals.
[3] She was a sailor and a windsurfer and she followed her younger brother, Johnny Heineken, when he moved on to the new sport of Formula Kite.
When Heineken returned home she made the decision and bought her own kites[4] In 2012 she won gold in Cagliari in Italy at the 2012 Kiteboard Course Racing World championships.
In the men's event in Bo'ao, her brother, John, this time, was beaten into second place by the German Florian Gruber.