PWA Windsurf World Cup Sylt 2016 – Live Stream

The points in the super final heat (Source: PWAworldtour 2016)

Overall ranking PWA freestyle 2016:
1. Gollito Estredo
2. Amado Vrieswijk
3. Yentel Caers
4. Dieter van der Eyken

8.10.2016 | Day 9
Slalom Elimination 4 got finished. 1st Gonzalo Costa Hoevel, 2nd Matteo Iachino, 3rd  Finian Maynard. Matteo Iachino has a clear lead overall ahead of Gonzalo Costa Hoevel and Julien Quentel. Tomorrow we will see the final day and there is a chance to get some stronger wind during the morning hours. The freestyler will meet at 8.00 am with a first possible start at 8.30 am and the Slalom racer at 10.00 am with a first possible start at 10.30 am.

Overall results after 4 eliminations:

1. Matteo Iachino
2. Gonzalo Costa Hoevel
3. Julien Quentel
4. Ross Williams
5. Finian Maynard
6.Bruno Martini
7. Marco Lang 
8.Vincent Langer
9. Pierre Mortefon
10. Taty Frans

7.10.2016 | Day 8

Day 8 saw some Slalom action. Elimination 4 almost got completed. The last top 16 riders are waiting for their heats. Again a few big names missed out to qualify for the top spots. Again some of the younger riders surprised with brilliant results.

6.10.2016 | Day 7

The double elimination in the freestyle discipline saw a re-start at 9.30 and two valid heats in relatively light wind conditions (8 minute heats (later changed to 9 minutes) – best 3 moves from 6 to count – 3 minute transition). The wind is gusty, but there are nice ramps all over the heat area. 4 or 5 heats are missing till the end of the double elimination. Heat 48 between Bosson and Caers got cancelled due to unsuitable wind conditions. The wind unfortunately dropped a lot and never returned with suitable force… Unfortunately still 4 or 5 heats have to be completed in the double elimination. Let’s hope that we will see suitable freestyle conditions on the remaining 3 event days. There is hope to get enough wind on Friday or Saturday.

Heat board double elimination Sylt 2016 after day 7

5.10.2016 | Day 6

Slalom starts at 11:00. Two Slalom eliminations got completed. Italian Matteo Iachino was dominating all eliminations and is in the lead. He has the lowest possible score points at the moment. Julien Quentel is in second and Ross Williams in third. And there are currently ranked a few new faces in the top 10: Bruno Martini, Marco Lang, Vincent Langer and Ingmar Daldorf. The younger generation is pushing hard! Antoine Albeau is ranked 19th, but we are sure to see more elimination which will bring discards.

Result Slalom after 3 eliminations 

1. Matteo Iachino
2. Julien Quentel
3. Ross Williams
4. Gonzalo Costa Hoevel
5. Bruno Martini
6. Marco Lang 
7. Vincent Langer
8. Finian Maynard
9. Pierre Mortefon
10. Ingmar Daldorf

4.10.2016 | Day 5

On day 5 of the event it was the turn of the Slalom sailors. Matteo Iachino managed to win the first Slalom elimination, Antoine Questel finished in second and Julien Quentel in 3rd.

Result Slalom elimination 1

1. Matteo Iachino

2. Antoine Questel

3. Julien Quentel

4. Ross Williams

5. Pierre Mortefon

6. Gonzalo Costa Hoevel

7. Finian Maynard

8. Antoine Albeau

The Foil racing saw 4 races in gusty light wind conditions. Sebastian Kornum, Antoine Albeau, Gonzalo Costa Hoevel, Mateus Isaac and Maciek Rutkowski are the top foil riders at the moment. Antoine Albeau, who  as training this new discipline over the last winter, won two of the four races. Sebastian Kornum and Gonzalo Costa Hoevel won respectively one race. It looks like Foil racing is a good option for light and gusty wind conditions. The PWA plans to organize competitions at selected venues in 2017 and for 2018 an own tour is in the planing.

3.10.2016 | Day 4

Perfect freestyle conditions for 4,8m with almost side shore conditions (starboard tack) and ramps.  The single elimination started at 9.20 and at around 15:00 Mister Double Air Culo Amado Vrieswijk won the winners final with the high score of the day (167.5) against Gollito Estredo. Dieter van der Eyken in third and Adrien Bosson in fourth. With the actual results Amado still leads the overall rankings. Gollito sits in second,  Yentel Caers in third and Dieter van der Eyken would move up to fourth place. Read more about day 4: Amado Vrieswijk wins the Single Elimination

Result Freestyle Single Elimination

1. Amado Vrieswijk

2. Gollito Estredo

3. Dieter van der Eyken

4. Adrien Bosson

The double elimination got started around 3.30 pm and the PWA managed to complete 8 heats. There is a good chance to get suitable freestyle conditions on Thursday and to complete the double elimination. 3 hours of suitable wind conditions would be needed to complete the remaining 17 or 18 heats.

2.10.2016 | Day 3

Very light wind during the whole day and just surfing and SUP action at the Brandenburger beach. Not even enough wind to run any foil races. Robby Naish gave an interview and spoke about the typical onshore Sylt conditions, the great surf after the storm, about the unbelievable development in the freestyle discipline, his actual status quo after his heavy injury 5 months ago, his thoughts on foil windsurfing and why nothing can beat a wave windsurfing day at Ho’okipa. You can watch the interview in the live stream of day 3 (from 20:10 – 32:20).

Day 4 will see some north easterly wind and there will be a realistic chance to start the freestyle single elimination. Skippers meeting is scheduled for 8.00 am.

1.10.2016 | Day 2

No wind, rain and good surf in the morning. In the afternoon the PWA started the first ever Foil Slalom Windsurfing exhibition/test race and Alexandre Cousin won the race ahead of his French colleague William Huppert and Polish racer Maciek Rutkowski. The wind was around 5 – 6 knots on the race course and there was still some swell and a nasty beach break.

30.9.2016 | Day 1

At around 11 o’clock the qualifying started and the following wave riders made it into the main wave event: Maciek Rutkowski, Gustav Haggstrom, Julien Quentel and Martin ten Hoeve won the repechage heat and made it into the main event, too. Iballa Moreno won the women’s division against her sister Daida and Alex Mussolini won the winners final against Thomas Traversa.

Qualifying Round Heats:

Heat 1: ten Hoeve vs Rutkowski vs Kolberg vs Bosson

Heat 2: Haggstrom vs Rydberg vs Hermann vs Bunger

Heat 3: Salmonn vs Akgazciyan vs Quentel vs Albert