2015 Martini EFPT Croatia – Final day overall

by EFPT on 11 Aug 2015 2015 Martini EFPT Croatia – The final day here at Perna, which was the last chance for finishing the single elimination unfortunately passed by without a possibility to even try to start the competition. Due to high weather pressure over whole Europe the thermal wind didn’t really fill in. With 16 competitors and a completed first round the Martini EFPT Croatia has an official result, however, our hopes were high to complete a whole elimination.

After two days of solid tow-in training behind a powerful rescue-boat, the riders were longing for a proper tow-in competition today. Ten sailors signed up to join the race for some very exceptional trophies, which were solely designed for the pro division at the Surf Perna Windsurfing Center. Besides experts like Adrien Bosson (North/Fanatic), Adam Sims (Sailloft/Patrik), Yentel Caers (JP/Neilpryde), Hugo Sousa (RRD/RRD) and Amado Vriewswijk (JP/Severne) also the two juniors Tvrtko Ljutic and Lennart Neubauer (Starboard/Neilpyrde), as well as some EFPT rookies like Kostya Smirnov (JP/Neilpryde) and Matthias Erlacher (Sailloft/Fanatic) signed up. The riders had two runs (one straight after the other) to show their best moves with the higher score counting. After the completed first round they were granted another run to go even bigger and top their previous results.

It was quite obvious from the start who would make the podium with Frenchie Adrien Bosson throwing himself through a perfect air-funnell into one-handed burner- a move that he was training the past days. Whilst Hugo Sousa and Yentel Caers were styling it up with really nice burner 720s, Amado Vrieswijk attempted a culo-culo but couldn’t get the second rotation. In the third round though he landed a super nice burner-burner. Adam Sims who is always very impressive in this discipline and who presented his own tow-in board by world-class shaper Patrik Diethelm, went for a spock-culo in the second run where he stepped off the board in the end, however managed to plane out of the move in the third round. Pointwise Bosson and Sims had the exact same amount for first place, yet with a higher scoring move in the previous round Bosson could take the victory. Third place went to Amado Vrieswijk from Bonaire.

The prize-giving and closing ceremony will take place tonight in a local beach bar. Even though the wind conditions weren’t at its best we are looking back on a great event with a lot of motivated people in the organisation team, the race crew and a great fleet of riders. We are all hoping to return to the beautiful beaches here at the Surf Perna Club in the upcoming years.

The next event will be the DAM-X in Brouwersdam, Holland taking place from the seventh-11th of October 2015. We are delighted to be able to also run the first EFPT girls division at the Zeil- and Surfcentrum at this historic windsurfing spot, that is home to some of the best freestyle windsurfers worldwide. Thank you for following us and stay tuned for the last two events in autumn of 2015.

 Overall Result EFPT 2015

Rank	Name		Nationality	Board	Sail	Lefka	Lanza	Perna	Total
1	Bosson	Adrien	France	Fanatic	North	75	55	65	195
2	De Sousa	Hugo	Brazil	RRD	RRD	85	33	65	183
3	Caers	Yentel	Belgium	JP	Neilpryde	48	50	65	163
4	Vrieswijk	Amado	Bonaire	JP	Severne	0	75	65	140
5	Sims	Adam	UK	Patrik	Sailloft	33	38	65	136
6	Spicher	Loick	Switzerland	JP	North	33	24	65	122
7	Ruenes	Anthony	France			0	100	0	100
	Van Broeckhoven	Steven	Belgium	JP	Neilpryde	100	0	0	100
9	Frans	Tonky	Bonaire			0	85	0	85
10	Van Gent	Maxime	Bonaire	Fanatic	North	0	4	65	69
11	Soltysiak	Phil	Canada	Starboard		0	65	0	65
	Jendrusch	Rick	Netherlands	F2	Severne	65	0	0	65
	Marca	Riccardo	Italy	Fanatic	North	0	0	65	65
14	Rowe	Max	UK	Fanatic	North	48	0	0	48
	Yakovlev	Vladimir	Russia	JP	Neilpryde	48	0	0	48
	Howard	Jamie	UK	JP	Neilpryde	48	0	0	48
17	Scheffers	Davy	Netherlands			0	45	0	45
18	Albert	Antoine	New Caledonia			0	38	0	38
19	Loizou	Christos	Cyprus	Fanatic	North	33	0	0	33
20	Plüss	Jeremy	Switzerland			0	29	0	29
	Fabrizi	Mattia	Italy	Fanatic	North	0	29	0	29
22	Smirnov	Kostya	Russia	JP	Neilpryde	0	0	27	27
	Erlacher	Matthias	Austria	Fanatic	Sailloft	0	0	27	27
	Schmidt	Maxime	Belgium	F2	Neilpryde	0	0	27	27
	Zwerus	Jazzy	Netherlands	JP		0	0	27	27
	Jovanovic	Matko	Croatia	Fanatic	Neilpryde	0	0	27	27
	Mudrovcic	Marko	Croatia		North	0	0	27	27
	Neubauer	Lennart	Greece	Starboard	Neilpryde	0	0	27	27
	Ljutic	Tvrtko	Croatia			0	0	27	27
30	Lufen	Marco	Germany	JP	Neilpryde	0	24	0	24
31	Beholz	Adrian	Germany	Fanatic	Sailloft	0	19	0	19
	Esteve	Sam	France	JP	Neilpryde	0	19	0	19
33	Vinante	Marco	Italy	JP		0	15	0	15
	Testa	Jacopo	Italy	RRD	RRD	0	15	0	15
35	Hibdige	Nic	UK			0	10	0	10
	Tertyshnyy	Dimitry	Russia	RRD		0	10	0	10
	De Windt	Rafael	Curacao	F2		0	10	0	10
	Etmon	Aron	Curacao	Starboard	Severne	0	10	0	10
	Testa	Mateo	Italy			0	10	0	10
40	Simmerl	Paul	Austria	JP	Neilpryde	0	6	0	6
	Majcher	Piotr	Poland	Patrik		0	6	0	6
42	Jankovic	Sebastian	Slovenia	Patrik		0	4	0	4