World Cup Pozo: Sarah-Quita wins the double, Mortefon wins Slalom-X

At the beginning of the final day of the Gran Canaria Gloria Windsurf World Cup, it was decided that there would only be one more elimination in Slalom X for the men and women. This meant that Sarah-Quita Offringa and Pierre Mortefon were already the winners and would not have had to compete again. However, they both competed in hardcore conditions with their smallest equipment.

Jenna Gibson achieves her first podium finish

Sarah-Quita Offringa finished the event in style, as she also won the last elimination in superior style, with the windsurfing queen from Aruba in the lead right from the start. She won seven of a total of eleven eliminations. After the Wave triumph at the beginning of the week Sarah-Quita won the double.

Jenna Gibson took second place in the final race, her first PWA podium, also in second place. Gibson managed to win one race in Pozo, while finishing second on five other occasions. The top five places in the women's race remained unchanged from the previous day: Marion Mortefon completes the podium in third, while Justine Lemeteyer just misses out on the podium in fourth. The top five is completed by Femke van der Veen, who finished just 2.3 points behind Norway's Oda Brødholt in sixth place.

Pierre Mortefon permanently in the top three

Pierre Mortefon delivered a masterly performance over the last nine days. The Frenchman did not finish outside the top three once in the ten eliminations. He was the only rider to take part in every final. The 2019 World Champion dominated the action and took the win with a lead of 15.9 points over his closest rival Matteo Iachino.

Maciek Rutkowski had started the final day in second place, but an early retirement in the last final opened the door for Iachino. The Italian finished fourth, pushing Rutkowski into third place in the overall standings. Rutkowski was a little disappointed, but third place keeps him in the running for the Slalom X World Championship title, which will be decided in a few weeks' time on Fuerteventura.

Jordy Vonk works his way forward after the flu

Jordy Vonk recovered over the course of the week from a severe bout of flu, which was still causing him problems on the first few days of the race. Fourth place in the end is therefore a remarkable achievement. The fitter the Dutchman became, the better his results. Vonk won two of the last four eliminations, including the last one. What would have been possible here if he had been in top form?

Behind the leading group, both Benoit Merceur and Ingmar Daldorf achieved their best results in the World Cup to date - fifth and sixth place respectively. Merceur only missed out on the final in the first run, after which he was always among the top eight. Daldorf made an excellent start to the competition, but then slipped back a little. Nevertheless, he should be satisfied with his overall performance.

The top ten is completed by Nico Prien in seventh place, who looked like the winner in the last elimination of the event, only to be overtaken by Vonk in the last gybe. They are followed by Taty Frans in eighth, Malte Reuscher in ninth and Amado Vrieswijk in tenth, just one point ahead of Cedric Bordes.

Alexia Kiefer takes the U21 victory

They then switched to wave riding so that they could ride the last heats of the "small" double elimination. Due to the new mode, the first eight places have already been decidedOnly the riders behind them can improve on their result from the single elimination. In the women's event, Oda Johanne Brødholt managed to reclaim her place in the top 10 of the event, winning her heat ahead of Line Bang Wittrup, Annagiulia Piccaglia and Maria Behrens.

As Alexia Kiefer Quintana and Maria Morales were tied with one win each in the U21 juniors, the title was decided in the final run of the entire event. On this occasion, Kiefer Quintana, who finished third in the professional category, dominated and won both the jump and wave classifications.

Brawzinho catches up

Reigning world champion Marcilio Browne fought his way up as far as possible from last place in the men's race to finish ninth, followed by Victor Fernandez, Moritz Mauch and Miguel Chapuis in tenth to twelfth place.

Results 2024 Gran Canaria Gloria Windsurf World Cup in Pozo

Slalom X Ladies

1. Sarah-Quita Offringa
2. Jenna Gibson
3. Marion Mortefon
4. Justine Lemeteyer
5. Femke van der Veen

Slalom X Men

1. Pierre Mortefon
2. Matteo Iachino
3. Maciek Rutkowski
4. Jordy Vonk
5. Benoit Merceur
6. Ingmar Daldorf
7. Nico Prien
8. Taty Frans
9. Malte Reuscher
10. Amado Vrieswijk

Wave ladies

• 1st Sarah-Quita Offringa
• 2nd Lina Erpenstein
• 3rd Alexia Kiefer Quintana
• 4th Maria Morales
• 5 Sol Degrieck
• 5 Pauline Katz
  

Wave men

• 1 .Marino Gil
• 2 Julian Salmonn
• 3 Philip Köster
• 4 Dieter Van der Eyken
• 5 Liam Dunkerbeck
• 5 Robby Swift
• 7 Ricardo Campello
• 8th Alessio Stillrich
• 9th Marcilio Browne
• 10 Victor Fernandez

Wave U21 girls

1. Alexia Kiefer Quintana
2. Maria Morales
3. Lisa Wermeister

Wave U21 boys

1. Liam Dunkerbeck
2. Lennart Neubauer
3. Gregory Stathopoulos
4. Samuele Ferraro

Wave U18 girls

1. Sol Degrieck
2. Annagiulia Piccaglia
3. Trine Gobisch
4. Lizzlotte Schilling Andrew

Wave U18 boys

1. Carlos Kiefer Quintana
2. Leon Maethner
3. Ryu Noguchi
4. Arthur Van den Brande

Wave U15 boys

1. Ryoma Sugi
2. Bjørn Olesen
3. Yannik Gonzalez

Wave U13 boys

1. Elías Antolín
2. Anton Gobisch
3. Raphaël Dumesnil
4. Dennis Gonzalez
5. Eric Gonzalez