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2016 DAM-X - Day 1 - Start of the single elimination

by EFPT on 13 Oct 2016
2016 DAM-X - Day 1 Jan Douwe Krediet
36 men and ten ladies registered to compete for 10.000€ and 3.000€ prize-money respectively. It's great to see a very mixed fleet of pro riders like Taty Frans (Starboard), Steven Van Broeckhoven (JP/Neilpryde), Adrien Bosson (North/Fanatic) and Davy Scheffers as well as many rookies who are gaining their first contest experiences.

Amongst the young-guns are local boys Bodhi Kempen (Starboard/Severne) and Jens Van Gorp (Severne/JP) as well as the remarkable talent from Greece Lennart Neubauer (Starboard/Neilpryde) who already joined the EFPT pro fleet in Croatia earlier this year.



In the ladies fleet we'll see some of the finest freestyle windsurfers of the world battling for the crown of the European Champion. Besides multiple World-Champion Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard/Neilpryde), former vice World-Champion Arrianne Aukes (North/Fanatic), PWA competitor Jazzy Zwerus (JP/Neilpryde) and local top freestyle sailor Maaike Huvermann (Starboard/Severne), some rookies are ready to mix it up. Margo Kurvink and Tess Van der Hulle, both from Holland will have their debut on tour, just as Austrian freestyle windsurfer Hanna Poschinger and the Italian lady Marianna Vagni.

Latter is lucky enough to call Fuerteventura her home, the same training ground that EFPT newbie Alexa Escherich (JP/Neilpryde) uses to push her level during the summer months. The ten women who are competing in the second ever European Freestyle stop for ladies are completed by Farrah Hall (JP/Neilpryde) from the United States, who is an Olympic RSX racer competing in the American team.



Just after 11.00 am this morning the horn for the first heat went off with suitable conditions for sail sizes between 5.2 and 4.8. With a heat duration of seven minutes and three minutes transition the men were sent out first.

To read more about the action at day 1 please click here.

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