Sarah-Quita Offringa and Yentel Caers are the winners of the Freestyle competition at the 2025 Fuerteventura Windsurfing World Cup.
Sarah-Quita Offringa survived a super final scare to earn her 16th Freestyle world title, which is her 27th world title, while Yentel Caers won the event for the second time after 2023.
Sarah-Quita Offringa & Yentel Caers win – Fuerteventura Windsurfing World Cup 2025
Video by Team Tillmanns / Fuerteventura World Cup 2025
Women
Less than a point separated Sarah-Quita Offringa and Maaike Huverman in the Single Elimination Final. In the Double Eliminiation Huvermann sailed a great heat, won against Sarah-Quita Offringa for the second time in her career and forced a Super Final.
Sarah-Quita Offringa once again managed to up her game when it mattered most as she landed culos and burners on both tacks, while also stomping a big, clean forward loop to deny Huvermann a maiden world title by 1.8 points. Offringa started the event with the aim of adding two world titles to her haul, and she has managed to accomplish her goals again, meaning she has now won 27 world titles and counting.
Of course, Huvermann, was disappointed hearing the result, but her performance was the closest anyone has ever got to stealing the Freestyle crown from Sarah-Quita Offringa.
Lisa Kloster completes the event and overall podium as she reaches a new career high benchmark. The German showed solid heats, landed great moves and will be one to watch in the future.
We’d also like to mention Živa Batis. The Slovenian windsurfer battled back through the double elimination to the fourth place and was able to land all her moves.
Men
Yentel Caers spent most of the day waiting after his single elimination victory. In the end, Caers faced Jacopo Testa, who came from a fourth place in the single elimination. Testa did well to climb two places from the single as he first won against Takumi Moriya before taking down Steven Van Broeckhoven. The Italian actually almost matched Caers’ port tack performance with a superb display of his own on starboard, which included a sick triple spock, but was heavily punished for not completing his port tack scoresheet – missing one move, while also counting a 3.2 point forward loop. Second place represents Testa’s best finish ever in Fuerte – bettering his third place finish in 2019.
Yentel Caers, who came a few days earlier to adapt to the conditions, won by 9,3 points. The former two-time world champion landed a perfect Bongka, Shifty and Pasko on port tack, while Testa was missing a move on port tack. Actually on starboard tack Testa won by 5 points. The Italian landed amazing moves like a perfect triple spock but in the end it was not enough to win against the Belgian, who is now en route to another world champion title.
Steven Van Broeckhoven slipped one place, from second to third, but ist still happy to earn another podium.
Takumi Moriya was not able to defend his 3rd place from the single eliminaiton. But the fourth place in Fuerte still represents the best result for the 18-year-old Japanese freestyle windsurfer.
Lennart Neubauer, who won the event last year managed to fight back from ninth in the Single Elimination to fifth in the Double. The reigning world champion posted the highest scoring heat of the entire contest against vice-world champion – Adrien Bosson as he became the only sailor to break the 40 point barrier – eventually posting a huge total of 42.5 points. Neubauer then suffered a half a point loss to Testa.
We need to mention, that Lennar Neubauer was not 100% fit as he injured his ankle during a hard Forward Loop landing at Pozo Izquierdo just before the event.
Final result 2025 Fuerteventura World Cup
Women:
1. Sarah-Quita Offringa
2. Maaike Huvermann
3. Lisa Kloster
4. Ziva Batis
5. Elena Dominik
6. Helena Derya Lale
7. Bijou Shahmirian
8. Ewa Szulc
Men:
1. Yentel Caers
2. Jacopo Testa
3. Steven van Broeckhoven
4. Takumi Moriya
5. Lennart Neubauer
6. Dieter van der Eyken
7. Adrien Bosson, Bodhi Kempen
9. Niclas Nebelung, Gollito Estredo, Antony Ruenes, Balz Müller
13. Antoine Albert, Youp Schmit, Sam Esteve, Takuma Sugi
17. Tigo Kort, Ryoma Sugi, George Grisley, Nicolo di Marco, Manolis Chrysopoulos, Davy Scheffers, Sebastian Gux, Tim Gerdes
25. Kango Iketeru, Michael Czech, Nicolas Akgazciyan, Antonio Silvestri, Ercole Rosso-Chioso, Luka Stomp, Haruto Konishi, Cosmo Pezetti
