Sarah-Quita confident in the end
After her lead had shrunk to just 4.4 points before the start of the final day, you could tell that Sarah-Quita Offringa was highly focussed once again. However, in contrast to the lighter winds on Sunday, classic Fuerteventura conditions prevailed on Monday with gusts of over 33 knots, and Offringa was able to win the last two eliminations of the event and claim her first slalom victory on the World Tour since Israel in 2021. Offringa will now focus on freestyle, which starts today.
Marion Mortefon's three wins on Monday postponed the event win to the final day, but the reigning world champion was unable to find the outstanding form she needed in today's extreme conditions to snatch victory from Offringa at the PWA World Cup. Mortefon nevertheless leaves Fuerteventura with her best result of the season - second place - and remains Blanca Alabau's closest rival after the first three events.
Blanca Alabau recovered superbly from her rather weak start to the PWA World Cup, but then finished in the top three nine times in the last 10 eliminations, which secured her the final spot on the podium. At the same time, she also retains the lead in the annual rankings ahead of Marion Mortefon and Justine Lemeteyer.
Goyard benefits from the bad luck of "The Beast"
Nicolas Goyard showed no nerves on the final day and was deservedly crowned the winner of the event. The Frenchman started the day just 1.9 points ahead of Johan Soe, but extended this lead to 3.9 points when he finished second in the first elimination, while his rival "only" came fourth.
Unfortunately, the race to win the PWA World Cup on Fuerte came to a somewhat disappointing end, as Soe's mast foot broke on the way to the start line in the quarter-finals and he had to concede the title to Goyard without a fight.
Soe will of course be disappointed that he had to bury his hopes of winning the event so unfortunately, but he will still be delighted with the overall result, as the 20-year-old nicknamed "The Beast" is on the podium at a PWA World Cup for the first time - in second place. Soe almost certainly has the makings of a future world champion.
In the battle for the last place on the podium, Matteo Iachino came out on top against Amado Vrieswijk and Pierre Mortefon. World champion Maciek Rutkowski had a pitch-black day and dropped back to sixth place with 10th and 26.5. Nevertheless, he defended his lead in the world rankings ahead of Pierre Mortefon and Matteo Iachino.
Prien and Becker in tenth and eleventh place
After Michele Becker was even in fourth place overall at one point, things didn't really go to plan for the 25-year-old on the last two days of the event - no place in the final in the last four eliminations. As a result, he even dropped out of the top 10 and into eleventh place. Nevertheless, the Kiel native is more than satisfied with his results on his first full PWA World Tour. He is fast, assertive and never avoids a duel. This has earned him a more than respectable seventh place in the world rankings after three events. Nico Prien has climbed another place. On the last day of the event, he made it to tenth place and in the PWA annual rankings he is also one place higher than Becker in sixth place. All in all, a great comeback to the World Cup for the man from Schönberg on the Baltic Sea.
Freestyle from today
From today, Tuesday, the freestylers take over the reigns in Sotavento. Of course there will be another excellent livestream .
