2024 World Cup Sylt Tag 10

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Die Vorhersage für den letzten Tag des 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt versprach immer wieder Leichtwindrennen und der Wind frischte im Laufe des Vormittags langsam auf, so dass eine weitere Elimination für die Männer und zwei Eliminationen für die Frauen bei 7-12 Knoten Wind absolviert werden konnten, aber niemand konnte Justine Lemeteyer (FMX Racing / S2Maui) und Johan Søe (FMX Racing / Point-7 / PATRIK Foils) davon abhalten, zu den jeweiligen Titeln im Foil Slalom zu marschieren.

Foil Slalom

Women’s

Justine Lemeteyer (FMX Racing / S2Maui) finishes the 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt with a perfect record of just 7 points from the 13 eliminations completed. The current World Tour leader was in a league of her own over the last ten days as she won eleven out of the thirteen eliminations completed. After winning both events so far this season, Lemeteyer will head into the world title decider in Japan in November with a two hundred point lead over Marion Mortefon (PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils).

Mortefon finishes Sylt in a clear second place and she managed to sign off the event in perfect fashion as she secured a hard fought win in Elimination 13 - doing extremely well to hold off Lemeteyer after making a brilliant start.

Meanwhile, reigning world champion - Blanca Alabau (Starboard / Severne Sails) - follows up her third place in Fuerteventura with another podium here. The Spaniard raced consistently all week, only finishing outside the top three once.

14-year-old Bobbi-Lynn De Jong (Starboard / NeilPryde) also sailed extremely consistently and managed to pip Femke van der Veen (Starboard / Severne Sails) to fourth place with just two points separating them both.

Men’s

With just one more elimination being sailed on the final day, Johan Søe (FMX Racing / Point-7 / PATRIK Foils) didn’t even need to race today to claim his maiden event victory on the World Tour given the margin of his lead and the second discard coming into play after the completion of Elimination 7. However, the young Dane did still compete and he signed off the event with a solid third place, which means the 21-year-old hasn’t finished outside the top three for the entire event. After being stripped of a maiden world title last year, claiming his first event win will feel all the sweeter and no one can argue with the nature of the victory.

Pierre Mortefon (Phantom / Phantom Sails / Phantom Foils) came into the event ranked second in the overall world rankings, but leaves with the World Tour lead heading into the decider in Japan after sailing remarkably consistently here to claim second place. The Frenchman didn’t finish outside of the top five once in seven races and will now look to claim his second world title of the season in Japan - having won the Slalom X earlier in the season.

After finishing sixteenth in Elimination 6 it looked as though Bruno Martini (JP / NeilPryde) might have blown his shot at securing a maiden 5-star podium on the World Tour. However, with the second discard coming into play the Italian was able to do just enough in Elimination 7 - sixth - to claim the last place on the podium as he edged out Daniele Benedetti (FMX Racing / Challenger Sails) by two points.

Benedetti backs up his win in Fuerteventura with a solid fourth place here. The 29-year-old finished tied on 20.7 points with Nicolas Goyard (Phantom / Phantom Sails / Phantom Foils), but crucially Benedetti came out on top on countback, which could yet prove pivotal in the world title race as just 100 points separate him and Mortefon, whereas it could have just as easily been 200 points instead. It’s likely that whoever beats who will win the world title as Enrico Marotti (JP / NeilPryde) is the next closest sailor, but he trails Mortefon by 500 points.

Meanwhile, Marotti did well to recover from a quarterfinal exit in the opening elimination to eventually finish sixth here. After a poor start Marotti bounced back by not finishing outside of the top 9 once, while he signed off the event with an excellent bullet today, which saw him pip Maciek Rutkowski (NeilPryde) to sixth place by just 0.3 of a point.

The top ten is completed by Rutkowski (NeilPryde), Amado Vrieswijk (Future Fly / Severne Sails), Matteo Iachino (Starboard / Severne Sails) and Nico Prien (JP / NeilPryde) - 7th-10th.

Freestyle

Unfortunately with the wind being too light to complete the Men’s single elimination, that means that Lennart Neubauer (Starboard / Severne Sails / Maui Ultra Fins) becomes the Freestyle PWA World Champion for the first time in his career. Meanwhile, Adrien Bosson (Duotone Windsurfing / Maui Ultra Fins) and Yentel Caers (JP / NeilPryde) complete the overall podium.

The official prize giving was then held at 3pm (GMT+2) during the afternoon in glorious sunshine and packed out crowds.

Result 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt - Women’s Foil Slalom *After 13 Eliminations (3 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)
Result 2024 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt - Men’s Foil Slalom *After 7 Eliminations (2 Discards)

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

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)