PWA World Cup Tenerife 2025: Offringa and Paré triumph off El Medano - displeasure among Slalom X riders

The last day of the Playa Surf CBbC Hotel Tenerife El Médano Windsurf Grand Slam 2025 brought no more changes to the results lists. As feared, no further competitions could be held in weak winds, so the results of the men's and women's wave single eliminations stand. Sarah-Quita Offringa and Marc Paré can therefore officially be celebrated as the winners of the event. For 34-year-old Offringa, the success is a first on Tenerife, while Paré successfully defended his title from the previous year. The results also have important implications for the overall World Tour standings, where Offringa has extended her lead and Paré has closed the gap in the World Championship rankings.

Offringa cracks the Tenerife code

Tenerife has so far been one of the few places where Sarah-Quita Offringa has yet to celebrate a victory. Last year, the 27-time world champion even missed out on the podium - an extremely rare occurrence in her career. However, the athlete from Aruba once again proved her adaptability and this time found the right strategy for the local conditions. With her victory, the 34-year-old extended her lead in the overall standings and took an important step towards her fifth consecutive Wave World Championship title. She is now 1500 points ahead of her closest rival Alexia Kiefer Quintana in the overall standings.

The 20-year-old Kiefer Quintana continued her impressive run and finished on the podium for the seventh time in a row. She performed some of the best turns of the event in the final, but was unable to successfully land either of her two backloop attempts, which ultimately tipped the scales in Offringa's favour. With second place, Kiefer Quintana cemented her position as the first runner-up in the overall standings. The 15-year-old Sol Degrieck showed a huge improvement in performance compared to last year. While she finished ninth in 2024, this time she rode all the way to the final and secured third place on the podium. The young Belgian is increasingly establishing herself among the world's top waveriders - she is likely to play a decisive role in the coming years.

This competition will remain unforgettable for Line Bang Wittrup. The 22-year-old Dane qualified for a final on the World Tour for the first time and particularly impressed with her surfing. In the round of the last 16, she achieved the second-highest wave score of the entire event with 7 points. In the end, Wittrup finished in fourth place, her best career result. Fifth place was shared by Pauline Katz and Justyna Sniady, who both narrowly missed out on a place in the final by less than half a point.

Paré defends title and remains in the World Cup race

Marc Paré started the competition as defending champion and once again left Tenerife as champion. While last year's event was held as a 4-star event and some top names were missing, this year's 5-star event had a much stronger field of participants. This makes Paré's successful defence of his title all the more valuable. Despite the light wind conditions, the Spaniard landed a spectacular double forward in the final, which received the highest jump score of the entire competition with 8.27 points. He also recorded the third-highest wave score of the contest. Paré's meticulous preparation before and during the event paid off - he drew level with Marcilio Browne in the world championship standings, with both now on 25,385 points.

Victor Fernandez has an impressive record on Tenerife. The Spaniard has already won here three times (2015, 2016 and 2018) and has finished on the podium at every event since 2012. He continued this streak with an outstanding second place, proving once again why he is so successful on this island. Fernandez currently occupies fourth place in the overall standings.

Marino Gil completes Spanish podium

Marino Gil Gherardi improved on his previous year's result by one place and secured his first podium finish on Tenerife in third place. The 22-year-old reliably found the right ramps to consistently land double forwards and achieved two of the three highest jump scores of the event. Gil is the only rider to have finished on the podium at both Canary Islands events.

Reigning world champion Marcilio Browne successfully fought his way into the final, but did not find the ramp he needed for a double forward, which would have been necessary for a podium finish. The Brazilian finished the competition in fourth place. Philip Köster made a strong start to the event and set the two highest scores of the competition on day six. However, the five-time world champion was eliminated in the semi-finals and shared fifth place with Antoine Martin, for whom this was the best result of his career in Tenerife.

In the junior categories, Alexia Kiefer Quintana won the girls' U21 category ahead of Maria Morales and Lisa Wermeister. In the U18 category, Sol Degrieck won ahead of Lizzlotte Schilling Andrew and Trine Gobisch. In the boys' U18 category, Javi Escribano won ahead of Bjørn Olesen and Ryoma Sugi. In the U15 category, Vasily Zakharko prevailed over Ramon Barutell and Anton Gobisch.

Slalom X riders criticise the race management

It was already clear yesterday that Pierre Mortefon won the Slalom X in Tenerife, making him world champion for the second time in a row. After four eliminations at the start of the week, there was only one fun race on Saturday and an official run was cancelled shortly after the start. This caused displeasure among the Slalom X riders. Some posted long statements on Instagram criticising the race management. "There were no more races, even though we were on the water and proved and showed that the conditions were suitable. Then a 'fun race' in perfect conditions. No idea why we couldn't do an official race. Speechless," wrote Nico Prien, for example. "What makes it especially hard to digest is that we have to wait a whole year to get back together in such a strong fleet on the Fin. There is simply no room to build on the momentum."

Maciek Rutkowski took a similar view: "I just can't help but be disappointed with the competition organisers here in Tenerife. I didn't really want to bring it up, but after one of the PWA judges told me that it was disrespectful to surf the course while we were on stand-by due to a lack of wind, I can't keep it to myself anymore," the Pole wrote on Instagram. "We rode for a total of 3.5 hours on eight windy days. We completed a total of 16 runs on eight windy days. The skippers' meetings usually took place at 12 noon. If it wasn't enough for wavriding, the course wasn't ready - we just sat on the beach and waited for better conditions for the waves. And the last day was the icing on the cake, when instead of an official race for the podium positions, we had a 'fun race' in probably the best conditions of the whole week."

Results PWA World Cup Tenerife 2025

Waveriding ladies

• 1st Sarah-Quita Offringa
• 2nd Alexia Kiefer Quintana
• 3 Sol Degrieck
• 4th Line Bang Wittrup
• 5 Pauline Katz
• 5 Justyna Sniady

Waveriding men

• 1 Marc Paré
• 2. Victor Fernandez
• 3. Marino Gil
• 4 Marcilio Browne
• 5 Antoine Martin
• 5 Philip Köster
• 7 Liam Dunkerbeck
• 7 Miguel Chapuis
• 9th Alessio Stillrich
• 9 Julian Salmonn
• 9th Moritz Mauch
• 9 Dieter van der Eyken

Waveriding girls U21

• 1st Alexia Kiefer Quintana
• 2nd Maria Morales
• 3. Lisa Wermeister
• 4 Helena Lale

Waveriding girls U18

• 1st Sol Degrieck
• 2. Lizzlotte Schilling Andrew
• 3 Trine Gobisch
• 4th Natsuki Wakasa

Waveriding boys U18

• 1st Javi Escribano
• 2. Bjørn Olesen
• 3rd Ryoma Sugi
• 4 Peter Gobisch

Waveriding boys U15

• 1. vasily Zakharko
• 2 Ramon Barutell
• 3. Anton Gobisch
• 4. Daniel Dunkerbeck

Slalom X - Result Tenerife

• 1st Pierre Mortefon
• 2nd Amado Vrieswijk
• 3rd Jordy Vonk
• 4 Matteo Iachino
• 5 Maciek Rutkowski
• 6th Nico Prien
• 7 Bruno Martini
• 8 Taty Frans
• 9 Ingmar Daldorf
• 10th Lohan Jules

Overall ranking PWA World Tour 2025 Slalom X

• 1st Pierre Mortefon
• 2 Matteo Iachino
• 3rd Jordy Vonk
• 4th Maciek Rutkowski
• 5th Amado Vrieswijk
• 6 Taty Frans
• 7 Bruno Martini
• 8th Nico Prien
• 9 Ingmar Daldorf
• 10th Jimmy Thieme