Fuerteventura PWA World Cup 2019

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The Men’s and Women’s Freestyle Single Eliminations were completed on Day 8 of the 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup - sponsored by René Egli - but the tricky conditions continued. With gusty winds the heat duration was extended to 10 minutes with the judges looking for the best 4 moves from 7 attempts on each tack.

Steven Van Broeckhoven

Freestyle

Single Elimination

Women’s

Current World No.1 & No.2 - Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins) and Maaike Huvermann (Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins) - successfully booked their place in the winners’ final after overcoming Arrianne Aukes (Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins) and Oda Brødholt (Starboard / Severne) respectively in the semifinals.

Oda Johanne & Sarah-Quita Offringa having fun between heats

Huvermann made the brighter start and led for the majority of the final, but couldn’t quite hang on as after a slightly conservative start - perhaps due to the lighter winds - Offringa asserted late on with a flourish of power moves and combos to get on top late on, which sees her take a massive step towards earning a 12th Freestyle world title.

Sarah-Quita Offringa wins the final

Huvermann clearly knew she needed a stronger move on starboard tack to combat Offringa, but unfortunately the 21-year-old missed her rig duck in the dying seconds when wanting to attempt a culo and with that her chance in the single elimination was gone.

Maaike Huvermann

In the semifinals. Oda Brødholt managed to beat Huvermann on port tack - 41.5 points to 36.5 points - but with the best 4 moves from 7 to count on each tack, the Norwegian was crucially missing a move on starboard tack, which potentially cost her a spot in the top 2 in the single elimination. There’s no doubt that Brødholt has a preference for windier conditions, but she made no mistakes in the battle for 3rd and 4th, against Aukes in Heat 16, to secure third place in the single and the 30-year-old will have her eyes firmly focused on progressing up the ladder In the double elimination.

Oda Brødholt

Meanwhile, Aukes finished in a solid 4th place and will now look to defend her position in the top 4 against any of the women who attempt to make a comeback in the double elimination. As things stand the top 5 is currently completed by Lina Eržen (Flikka / Duotone), Clare Elliot, Johanna Rümenapp (I-99 / Gun Sails / Maui Ultra Fins) and Jazzy Zwerus (JP / NeilPryde), but Olya Raskina (JP / NeilPryde) will be one to watch in the double elimination. The Russian will have to come from the first round of the double, but if she can start to build some momentum, she has the potential to produce an excellent come back.

Arrianne Aukes

Men’s

Steven Van Broeckhoven (Starboard / Gun Sails / Shamal Sunglasses) deservedly claimed victory in the Men’s Single Elimination with the Belgian posting the two highest scores of the contest so far in the semifinals and the winners’ final. In the semifinal against Youp Schmit (I-99 / Avanti) Van Broeckhoven posted a monstrous score of 179.3 points, while in the final he again posted a huge tally of 174.1 points to earn his first win in a single elimination on the world tour since April 2015. The Belgian looked explosive throughout and could prove a hard man to pin back in the double elimination given his form thus far.

Steven Van Broeckhoven back to winning ways

Jacopo Testa (RRD / RRD Sails / AL360) booked his place in his first winners’ final on the world tour after defeating the 2015 event and world champion - Dieter van der Eyken (Severne / Severne Sails) - in the semifinals after posting the third highest score of the competition thus far - 165.9 points. The Italian is now guaranteed his second PWA event podium - adding to his previous podium in Sylt, 2017.

Jacopo Testa

The podium at this stage is completed by world title hopeful - Youp Schmit - after the Bonairean secured third place in the single elimination ahead of van der Eyken. There is obviously still a long way to go with the double elimination to come, but as things stand Schmit would head to the top of the overall rankings with current world tour leader - Amado Vrieswijk (JP / Severne) - sat in joint 5th place after an earlier than anticipated exit yesterday.

Youp Schmit

Dieter van der Eyken completes the top 4 at the moment, but the Belgian looked a little bit frustrated with his performance at times today knowing that he had a realistic shot at making the podium. However, after several failed port tack moves in the battle for 3rd and 4th with Schmit the 27-year-old was left counting a forward loop as his 4th move.

Dieter van der Eyken cutting a frustrated figure

The Men’s Double Elimination began shortly after the completion of the Single Elimination and the first round went virtually as you would expect. However, Niclas Nebelung (I-99 / Gun Sails / Maui Ultra Fins) produced a late come back to cause an upset against Loïck Spicher (RRD / RRD Sails), while Corto Dumond (Starboard / Severne) came out on top of the battle of the young guns by claiming victory in a close heat against Lennart Neubauer (Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins).

Dudu Levi (Gun Sails) produced the highest scoring heat in the first round of the double - 145.6 points - but then couldn’t quite replicate that performance in the second round against Nicolas Akgazciyan (JP / NeilPryde). The Israeli led for the majority of the heat, but a late forward loop and a shuvit spock by the Frenchman proved enough to sneak Akgazciyan into the next round.

In the opening heat of the second round teammates - Davy Scheffers (Tabou / GA Sails) and Giovanni Passani (Tabou / GA Sails / AL360) - sailed a big heat with Passani currently ranked 5th in the overall rankings, while Scheffers came into the event in joint 7th. Unfortunately, Scheffers didn’t enjoy his best heat with the Dutchman failing to complete his scoresheet - only 3 counting moves on each tack rather than the 4 required - meaning Passani advanced. This will go down as a missed opportunity for Scheffers as the moves the 27-year-old did land generally scored higher, but his failure to fill his scoresheet cost him dearly.

Giovanni Passani loads up

The forecast for tomorrow looks ever so slightly lighter than today and we may have to wait until the afternoon for the contest to resume with more cloud cover expected during the morning. The skippers’ meeting has been called for 10:30am (GMT+1) tomorrow morning with the action commencing from 11am onwards.

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Result 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup - Women’s Single Elimination

1st Sarah-Quita Offringa (ARU - Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins)

2nd Maaike Huvermann (NED - Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins)

3rd Oda Brødholt (NOR - Starboard / Severne)

4th Arrianne Aukes (NED - Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins)

Result 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup - Men’s Single Elimination

1st Steven Van Broeckhoven (BEL - Starboard / Gun Sails)

2nd Jacopo Testa (ITA - RRD / RRD Sails / AL360)

3rd Youp Schmit (NB - I-99 / Avanti)

4th Dieter van der Eyken (BEL - Severne / Severne Sails)

5th Amado Vrieswijk (NB - JP / Severne)

5th Antony Ruenes (FRA - Tabou / GA Sails)

5th Yentel Caers (BEL - I-99 / Point-7)

5th Sam Esteve (FRA - JP / NeilPryde)

Das war Tag 9:

More drama ensued on the penultimate day of the 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup - sponsored by René Egli - with the Men’s Freestyle world title race potentially taking a swing in direction, while there were numerous close battles and epic tussles with Fuerte delivering the best winds in a few days.

Penultimate day of explosive Freestyle action

Freestyle - Double Eliminations

Women’s

Yesterday we mentioned that Olya Raskina (JP / NeilPryde) may be one to watch in the Double Elimination and the Russian proved why today as she won four consecutive heats to progress from the first round of the double into 5th place for the event. Olya firstly defeated Alex Escherich (JP / NeilPryde), Clare Elliot, Lina Eržen (Flikka / Duotone) and lastly Johanna Rümenapp (I-99 / Gun Sails / Maui Ultra Fins) with Raskina’s consistency in Fuerte’s tricky waters proving pivotal.

Olya Raskina

Raskina’s come back was then brought to an end by Arrianne Aukes (Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins) with Aukes successfully defending her fourth place from the single elimination after landing a regular kono and shakas on both tacks. Aukes will now face Oda Brødholt (Starboard / Severne) in the first heat up tomorrow with a place on the podium up for stakes.

Arrianne Aukes

Men’s

The biggest news of the day involves world title hopeful, Amado Vrieswijk (JP / Severne), who came into the event leading the world title race having staged a stunning come back to win in Bonaire. However, after an earlier than anticipated exit in the single elimination here, the Bonairean would be required to produce another mammoth come back to keep his world title fate in his own hands.

Vrieswijk had got the better of Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo (Fanatic / Duotone) on his home waters of Bonaire, but the 9-time Freestyle World Champion is a different proposition in Fuerte and they would be pitched against each other again in Heat 29b - with the loser having to settle for joint 9th here. Something you’d have thought unthinkable before the start of the event.

Before their latest showdown heat, Vrieswijk said that he’d been sailing well and landing everything that he tried, but almost everything that could go wrong for the 23-year-old, did go wrong in this crucial heat with Vrieswijk crashing more moves in this heat than in the previous few seasons combined.

A strangely out of sorts Amado Vrieswijk

Gollito also was not as his best from the beginning, but slowly found some rhythm to earn a bitter sweet victory, which saw him progress, but at the same time put a dent in his good friends title challenge. Vrieswijk did still produce a moment of magic with a shifty into shaka, but by that point the damage had already been self-inflicted.

Gollito Estredo

Having defeated Vrieswijk, Gollito then posted the second highest scoring heat of the day against - Antony Ruenes (Tabou / GA Sails) - 170.6 points - having already posted the highest heat of the day in Heat 25b - 174.7 points - but then lost out by just 0.1 of a point to Yentel Caers (I-99 / Point-7) in an incredibly close battle for 5th and 6th. Gollito had looked like he had hit top gear after looking slightly out of sorts in the single elimination and was incensed by the loss given that his technically more difficult flaka-into-ponch scored 1.3 points less than Caers’ Ponch360. That led to the reigning event champion being eliminated from the competition.

Yentel Caers celebrates

Caers was then involved in a battle of the Belgian’s as he faced former Freestyle World Champion - Dieter van der Eyken (Severne / Severne Sails) in a bid to move into the top 4 and Caers delivered another powerful display again to advance, which keeps the 24-year-old firmly in the title race - particularly if he can continue his come back tomorrow.

Yentel Caers reacts upon hearing the result

However, next up for Caers will be Youp Schmit (I-99 / Avanti), who seems very pumped up and having had a clean bill of health is sailing with a new level of power and consistency than in recent years and Vrieswijk’s early exit may give him even more motivation for Finals Day.

Youp Schmit will be waiting for Yentel Caers

Dieter van der Eyken can be delighted with his play though this week - particularly after rounding off his contest with his highest heat score of the week against Caers - 159.6 points. Freestyle may not be the former world champions main focus these days, but he showed once again that in technically thought conditions that he is still one of the best around over the last 4 days.

Dieter van der Eyken

Elsewhere, Sam Esteve (JP / NeilPryde) and Antony Ruenes (Tabou / GA Sails) finish in joint 7th respectively, which should be good enough for Ruenes to rise into the top 5 in the overall rankings.

Antony Ruenes

The top 10 is completed by Giovanni Passani (Tabou / GA Sails), Adrien Bosson (Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins), who was frustrated that his air kabikuchi against Yentel Caers in Heat 28b was adjudged to be outside the competition and therefore did not count. If it had then it is likely that he would’ve won as Bosson was then missing a move on port tack. Balz Müller (MB-Boards / Severne) completed a solid come back to also claim joint 9th alongside Vrieswijk, Passani and Bosson.

Giovanni Passani

Vrieswijk’s title hopes are far from over, but the Bonairean would now probably rather see Yentel Caers defeat Schmit tomorrow and then see current event leader - Steven Van Broeckhoven (Starboard / Gun Sails) - defend his single elimination crown. That would then create a scintillating scenario heading into the season finale in Sylt with Vrieswijk and Van Broeckhoven on 9.7 points, Schmit on 5 points and Caers on 6 points - all 4 sailors would then have all the play for, but before then there is Finals Day with all still to play for Caers, Schmit, Jacopo Testa (RRD / RRD Sails / AL360) and Van Broeckhoven.

The skippers’ meeting for finals day of the 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup has been called for 10:30am (GMT+1) tomorrow morning with the action on Super Saturday commencing from 11am - if conditions allow. With a similar forecast to today and clear skies predicted tomorrow should see an epic conclusion to the Freestyle.

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Current Ranking 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup - Women’s Double Elimination
*Top 4 places may still change

1st Sarah-Quita Offringa (ARU - Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins)

2nd Maaike Huvermann (NED - Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins)

3rd Oda Brødholt (NOR - Starboard / Severne)

4th Arrianne Aukes (NED - Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins)

5th Olya Raskina (RUS - JP / NeilPryde)

Current Ranking 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup - Men’s Double Elimination
*Top 4 places may still change

1st Steven Van Broeckhoven (BEL - Starboard / Gun Sails)

2nd Jacopo Testa (ITA - RRD / RRD Sails / AL360)

3rd Youp Schmit (NB - I-99 / Avanti)

4th Yentel Caers (BEL - I-99 / Point-7)

5th Dieter van der Eyken (BEL - Severne / Severne Sails)

6th Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo (VEN - Fanatic / Duotone)

7th Sam Esteve (FRA - JP / NeilPryde)

7th Antony Ruenes (FRA - Tabou / GA Sails)

Das war Tag 10:

Finals day at the 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup saw an explosive end to proceedings as the top 4 men and women left standing in the Freestyle Double Eliminations went all out in the pursuit of victory. In the women’s fleet, it was the usual suspects who prevailed, but in the Men’s fleet, it was another event filled with upsets, close calls, and colossal battles, with the finest of margins separating the elite of the Freestyle World. Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins) reinforced her title as the Queen of Freestyle by claiming an incredible 12th Freestyle World crown, while Steven Van Broeckhoven (Starboard / Gun Sails / Shamal Sunglasses) became the first man to win a PWA Freestyle World Cup other than either Amado Vrieswijk (JP / Severne) or 9-time Freestyle World Champion - Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo (Fanatic / Duotone) since 2016.

Sarah-Quita Offringa & Steven Van Broeckhoven celebrate

Freestyle - Double Eliminations

Women’s

Sarah-Quita Offringa started the day knowing that she was potentially just 9 minutes away from an unprecedented 12th PWA Freestyle World Championship. The Aruban faced Maaike Huvermann (Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins)in the double elimination final and the 28-year-old made no mistakes as she exuded her usual power, flow and style to earn an incredible 12th Freestyle world title and her 16th overall.

Scream and shout, let it all out! Sarah-Quita Offringa secures Freestyle World title No.12

Huvermann continues to provide Offringa with a stern test each time they meet, but the 21-year-old hasn’t yet cracked the code to prise Offringa’s cherished world title away from her. The vice-world champion wasn’t a million miles away again after landing a sick skopu on the way out, but couldn’t quite land the burner she so badly needed on port tack and was therefore left counting a shuvit, which didn’t inflict enough damage against the Queen of Freestyle. Huvermann finishes 2019 as the vice-world champion for the 4th consecutive year.

Maaike Huvermann

Oda Brødholt (Starboard / Severne) successfully defended her third place from the single elimination by defeating Arrianne Aukes (Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins) in Heat 34 with the Norwegian producing an accomplished display. However, Brødholt was then clearly aware that she would need bigger moves in Heat 35 to defeat Huvermann and in her attempt to land a skopu she ended the heat with just two moves on starboard tack. The 30-year-old once again completes the women’s event and overall podium.

Oda Brødholt

Meanwhile, Arrianne Aukes finishes 2019 ranked 4th overall, while Jazzy Zwerus (JP / NeilPryde) completes the overall top 5.

Arrianne Aukes

Men’s

Over the last 5 days, Steven Van Broeckhoven (Starboard / Gun Sails / Shamal Sunglasses) has been in spectacular form with the Belgian showing off the kind of form that saw him crowned world champion in 2011. The 33-year-old set the highest score of the contest in the semifinal of the single elimination - 179.3 points - and in today’s final against Yentel Caers (I-99 / Point-7) SVB recorded the second highest score of the competition - 177.4 points - to earn a thoroughly deserved victory that no one can have any complaints about. Victory today marks Van Broeckhoven’s first win on the world tour since 2015 in Leucate, France, and sees him rise from 9th to joint 3rd in the world rankings with Amado Vrieswijk (JP / Severne).

Steven Van Broeckhoven celebrates

Yentel Caers won 4 heats on the bounce yesterday and the Belgian continued his hot form today to move into the podium positions after defeating Youp Schmit (I-99 / Avanti) and Jacopo Testa (RRD / RRD Sails / AL360). Caers couldn’t stop the on fire Van Broeckhoven, but his second place here means that he is now tied on points with Schmit in the battle for the 2019 world title with both men recording the same results in the opening two events - a second and a fourth respectively.

Yentel Caers

Schmit will be delighted with his work this week with the Bonairean walking away from Fuerteventura with his best result here in his career - 4th - which keeps him firmly in title race contention.

Youp Schmit

Antony Ruenes (Tabou / GA Sails) will rise one place in the overalls to 5th after finishing joint 7th here with Sam Esteve (JP / NeilPryde), while Giovanni Passani (Tabou / GA Sails / AL360) remains on course for his best overall finish to date - currently 6th.

Antony Ruenes

The top 10 at this stage of the season is completed by Adrien Bosson (Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins), Sam Esteve, Dieter van der Eyken (Severne / Severne Sails) and Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo (Fanatic / Duotone), while Testa rises to 11th after completing the podium here.

Dieter van der Eyken

Youth’s

Girl’s U20

14-year-old Lina Eržen (Flikka / Duotone) claimed a clear cut victory over Alexa Escherich (JP / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins) with the young Slovenian winning all 3 U20 finals with powerful and styling flakas and spocks.

Lina Eržen

Boy’s U15

Takumi Moriya (Severne) completed the week unbeaten with the 12-year-old showing off an excellent variety of moves to see off Val Eržen (Flikka / Duotone), Janus Wikle (Flikka) and Ancor Sosa Kather (Tabou / Point-7), who finish 2nd-4th respectively.

Takumi Moriya

U20s Super Session

With the U20s being completed earlier in the week today saw a 15 minute Super Session held with U15s winner Takumi Moriya also joining the last Youth’s heat of the day. The Super Session was eventually won by Nil Bacon (Fanatic / Loftsails) after the young Frenchman landed a sick skopu 360.

Nil Bacon wins the U20s Super Session

Corto Dumond (Starboard / Severne) walks away as the U20 champion having defeated Taku Sugi (Tabou / GA Sails) in the final on the opening day, while Lennart Neubauer (Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins) completes the podium.

Corto Dumond

You can also see a full recap of the Slalom event in Day 5s news here.

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Result 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup - Women’s Freestyle

1st Sarah-Quita Offringa (ARU - Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins)

2nd Maaike Huvermann (NED - Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins)

3rd Oda Brødholt (NOR - Starboard / Severne)

4th Arrianne Aukes (NED - Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins)

5th Olya Raskina (RUS - JP / NeilPryde)

Overall Result 2019 PWA World Tour - Women’s Freestyle

1st Sarah-Quita Offringa (ARU - Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins)

2nd Maaike Huvermann (NED - Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins)

3rd Oda Brødholt (NOR - Starboard / Severne)

4th Arrianne Aukes (NED - Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins)

5th Jazzy Zwerus (NED - JP / NeilPryde)

Result 2019 Fuerteventura PWA World Cup - Men’s Freestyle

1st Steven Van Broeckhoven (BEL - Starboard / Gun Sails / Shamal Sunglasses)

2nd Yentel Caers (BEL - I-99 / Point-7)

3rd Jacopo Testa (ITA - RRD / RRD Sails / AL360)

4th Youp Schmit (NB - I-99 / Avanti)

5th Dieter van der Eyken (BEL - Severne / Severne Sails)

6th Jose ‘Gollito’ Estredo (VEN - Fanatic / Duotone)

7th Sam Esteve (FRA - JP / NeilPryde)

7th Antony Ruenes (FRA - Tabou / GA Sails)

9th Giovanni Passani (ITA - Tabou / GA Sails / AL360)

9th Adrien Bosson (FRA - Fanatic / Duotone / Maui Ultra Fins)

9th Balz Müller (SUI - MB-Boards / Severne)

9th Amado Vrieswijk (NB - JP / Severne)

Girl’s U20s

1st Lina Eržen (Flikka / Duotone)

2nd Alexa Escherich (JP / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins)

Boy’s U20s

1st Corto Dumond (Starboard / Severne)

2nd Takuma Sugi (Tabou / GA Sails)

3rd Lennart Neubauer (Starboard / Severne / Maui Ultra Fins)

4th Nil Bacon (Fanatic / Loftsails)

Boy’s U15s

1st Takumi Moriya (Severne)

2nd Val Eržen (Flikka / Duotone)

3rd Janus Wikle (Flikka)

4th Ancor Sosa Kather (Tabou / Point-7)