2024 World Cup Sylt Tag 7

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Der siebte Tag des 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt erwies sich als eine weitgehend frustrierende Angelegenheit mit nur zwei Läufen im Freestyle und drei Läufen im Foil Slalom, die im Laufe des Tages bei marginalen Winden in beiden Disziplinen absolviert wurden.

Freestyle

The early morning call didn’t work out for the Freestyle, so the original skippers’ meeting was pushed back from 8am until 9am and over the proceeding hour the wind started to improve slightly. Current World Tour leader Lennart Neubauer (Starboard / Severne Sails / Maui Ultra Fins) was the first man to hit the water, which is quite impressive in its own right as you could easily forgive the young Greek sailor not wanting to push to compete given his situation.

After managing to pull off a few moves the decision was made to give the Freestyle a try as based on the forecast this may have been the last possibility to gain a result, but unfortunately the unreliable nature of the wind meant it was only possible to complete two heats, which saw Antony Ruenes (Tabou / GA Sails) and Takumi Moriya (Severne / Severne Sails) progress from the opening heat followed by Manolis Chrysopoulos (JP / NeilPryde) and Eugenio Marconi (Duotone Windsurfing), both of whom caused upsets in the light and patchy winds against former world champion, Amado Vrieswijk (Future Fly / Severne Sails) and Sam Esteve (JP / NeilPryde).

Heat 9 did begin, but then had to be cancelled due to the wind dropping and despite waiting on hold it wasn’t possible to progress any further through the single elimination.

Foil Slalom

The light winds also saw some upsets in the early heats of the Men’s seventh elimination with Michele Becker (PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils) and Alexis Mathis (Tabou / GA Sails) failing to progress from the opening heat. Meanwhile, Amado Vrieswijk would’ve been hoping to use the seventh elimination to discard a tenth place from Elimination 3, but instead faced a quarterfinal exit after jumping the gun together with Wataru Tajima in Heat 3.

Unfortunately, the forecast for Friday currently looks pretty dire with WindGuru currently predicting winds between just 3-6 knots, so on paper it looks as though it will be a lay day, but as ever you just never know with the weather, so the Foil Slalom and Freestyle fleets will be given an announcement at 11am (GMT+2).

Current Ranking 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt - Women’s Foil Slalom *After 11 Eliminations (2 Discards)

1st Justine Lemeteyer (FRA | FMX Racing / S2Maui)
2nd Marion Mortefon (FRA | PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils)
3rd Blanca Alabau (ESP | Starboard / Severne Sails)
4th Bobbi-Lynn De Jong (NB | Starboard / NeilPryde)
5th Femke van der Veen (NED | Starboard / Severne Sails)
Current Ranking 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt - Men’s Foil Slalom *After 6 Eliminations (1 Discard)

1st Johan Søe (DEN | FMX Racing / Point-7 / PATRIK Foils)
2nd Pierre Mortefon (FRA | Phantom / Phantom Sails / Phantom Foils)
3rd Nicolas Goyard (FRA | Phantom / Phantom Sails / Phantom Foils)
4th Daniele Benedetti (ITA | FMX Racing / Challenger Sails)
5th Bruno Martini (ITA | JP / NeilPryde)
6th Amado Vrieswijk (NB | Future Fly / Severne Sails)
7th Maciek Rutkowski (POL | JP / NeilPryde)
8th Enrico Marotti (CRO | JP / NeilPryde)
9th Nico Prien (GER | JP / NeilPryde)
10th Matteo Iachino (ITA | Starboard / Severne Sails)
Result 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt - Women’s Wave

1st Sarah-Quita Offringa (ARU | Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins)
2nd Alexia Kiefer Quintana (ESP | Duotone Windsurfing)
3rd Sol Degrieck (BEL | Severne / Severne Sails)
4th Lina Erpenstein (GER | Severne / Severne Sails)
5th Maria Behrens (GER | Duotone Windsurfing / Maui Ultra Fins)
5th Justyna Sniady (POL | North Windsurfing / Maui Ultra Fins)
5th Maria Morales (ESP | Goya Windsurfing)
5th Coraline Foveau (FRA | Flikka / GUNSAILS)
Result 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt - Men’s Wave

1st Marc Paré (ESP | Simmer / Simmer Sails)
2nd Marcilio Browne (BRA | Goya Windsurfing)
3rd Victor Fernandez (ESP | Duotone Windsurfing)
4th Antoine Martin (FRA | Starboard / North Windsurfing)
5th Robby Swift (UK | JP / NeilPryde)
5th Philip Köster (GER | Severne / Severne Sails / Black Project Fins)
5th Marino Gil {ESP (JP / NeilPryde)
5th Miguel Chapuis (ESP | Flikka / North Windsurfing)
9th Thomas Traversa (FRA | Tabou / GA Sails)
9th Dieter Van der Eyken (BEL | Severne Windsurfing / Black Project Fins)
9th Henri Kolberg (GER | Naish / Naish Sails / Maui Ultra Fins)
9th Liam Dunkerbeck (ESP | Starboard / Severne Sails / Black Project Fins)
9th Titouan Flechet (FRA | Tabou / Hot Sails Maui)
9th Jules Denel (FRA | Tabou / GA Sails)
9th Takuma Sugi (JPN | Tabou / GA Sails / Black Project Fins)
9th Morgan Noireaux (HI | JP / NeilPryde / Black Project Fins)