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“Mr. Consistent”: Many more podium places for Yentel Caers! PWA Worldtour / Freestyle Pro Tour A review of season 2024 from a freestyler’s perspective. Let’s
25. October 2024
The 40. edition of the World Cup Sylt provided, once again, an amazingly entertaining location to showcase our sport in all disciplines, and the event organizers put on the biggest show of the year.
MEN FREESTYLE
Unfortunately the conditions didn’t play ball for the freestylers this year in Sylt. Despite many attempts to run the single elimination in very borderline conditions, it was not possible to complete the bracket, so the world title race remained unchanged. Congratulations to Yentel Caers for an excellent 3rd place result in 2023. You continue to amaze and inspire us with your competition excellence alongside your dedication, motivation and enthusiasm for the sport in all conditions!
Yentel also managed to place 2nd in the tow-in freestyle exhibition and wowed the crowds with some motor-propelled power moves. Congratulations also for this achievement. Sam Esteve finished the year in an excellent 5th place after an amazing performance in Fuerteventura, his equal best result ever. Congratulations Sam!
MEN WAVE
The men’s competition also took place entirely on Day 1 of the competition window. The morning started off with quite strong winds, with the competitors using 4.0 and 4.2. The conditions dropped quite quickly though, so during the 2nd round everyone was reaching for their 4.7s and 5.0s and by the quarter finals, it was 5.3 weather.
Despite many cancelled heats, the event crew were able to steer the fleet to a final result and both Marino Gil Gherardi and Robby Swift made it to the quarter finals. Unfortunately their runs stopped there though as Robby was taken out by Marcilio Browne and Marino lost narrowly to Victor Fernandez. Robby and Marino finished 5th=. Morgan had an excellent heat in his 2nd round matchup but ended up losing out to Miguel Chapuis in a very tightly contested battle and with no wind to run the double, he had to setlle with 9th=.
Going into the final event of the year in Hawaii, Marino still sits solidly in 3rd place with a shot at the 2024 Wave World Title. Morgan is in 6th place and Robby is in 7th. All the sailors will be looking forward to the warm waters and, quite possibly, giant waves of Hawaii to put on a final show for the end of the Unified PWA/IWT World Tour.
MEN FOIL SLALOM
The foil racers were the sailors who ended up completing the most days of competition in Sylt, as is often the case, and our team performed exceptionally well. Bruno Martini started the event with an amazing first day, finishing 2nd, 1st and 2nd in the first 3 rounds. A couple of mis-haps during the rest of the week saw him drop a few places but a solid final round allowed him to end the event in 3rd place, his best result yet in a Foil PWA World Cup.
Enrico Marotti started the event quite differently with a disastrous 1st round exit in the first elimination, not quite making the final in the 2nd and a crash in the winners final in the 3rd round but he put it all behind him after that and continued the event by making every subsequent final and ended up taking victory in the final elimination which was run on day 10 of this prestigious World Cup. Enrico ended up in 6th which was probably not quite what he had hoped for but he proved his resilience throughout the event and left himself in 3rd place in the overall for the year with 1 event to go in Japan.
Nico Prien improved on his result from Fuerte, stepping into the top 10 for the first time this year on the foil and will head to Japan in 9th place.
Congratulations to our team and we will wait excitedly to watch the final Wave and Slalom events in Maui an Japan!
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