Cori Schumacher (California, USA, pictured), 33, has won the Roxy Asp Women’s World Longboard Championships in Biarritz, at the world famous venue of La Côte des Basques defeating fellow finalist Kaitlin Maguire (California, USA), 22, in clean two-to-three foot (0.5 to 1 meter) waves in a 100% American heat. Claiming her first ever Asp World title after several years amongst the world’s best female longboarders’ contingent, Schumacher stepped-up to her reputation to dominate the last action-packed day of the contest posting the event’s highest single-wave and heat scores respectively a 9.25 and 17.25 points. Coming out atop a series of intense exchanges in a well-fought final after eliminating two former world champions in the Quarterfinals (Jennifer Smith) and the Semifinals (Joy Monahan), Schumacher’s solid 13.15 score to Maguire’s 9.80 confirmed her domination over the weekend, her smart heat tactics and strategy giving her the final sot at the title. Maguire, who was surfing her first final in an Asp World title decider event, came short of five points leaving the 2010 edition with the runner-up spot, a promising result and a guarantee to return in next year’s Asp Women’s World Longboard Championships along with the event’s top 16 surfers. The Roxy Asp Women’s World Longboard Championships were treated to excellent surfing levels throughout the two-day competition, the intensity rising fast throughout the final day of competition and the field of contenders reducing dramatically to the last two. All news, photos and videos highlights available at www.roxy.com |  |  | Photo: Asp/Aquashot |
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After four days of testing conditions in the perfect freestyle playground of Lanzarote, three times world champion Jose “Gollito” Estredo and two times world champion Sarah-Quita Offringa raise the silverware at the first stop of the Pwa Canaries tour. The intense week of world-class competition began with the wind refusing to blow on the opening day of competition for the forty-four professional sailors that congregated in Costa Teguise to battle it out at the Lanzarote World Cup. The level of the entire fleet has gone through the roof. The very first heat between Bjorn Saragoza and Daivis Parternina Teran might just as well have been a final. They both pulled off technical combination moves that were last year only being landed by the top 3 sailors, and with more style than Gwen Stefani. Apart from Estredo, Thode, and Tonky Frans who all performed impeccably well with stylish moves throughout their heats, the real tour regular that stood out this week was Canadian, Philip Soltysiak.
Results Men: 1st Jose “Gollito” Estredo 2nd Kiri Thode 3rd Tonky Frans 4th Philip Soltysiak; Women: 1st Sarah-Quita Offringa 2nd Yolanda Freites De Brendt 3rd Laure Treboux 4th Junko Nagoshi.
Overall Rankings Men (after two events): 1st Jose “Gollito” Estredo 2nd Kiri Thode 3rd Steven Van Broeckhoven 4th Tonky Frans 5th Maarten Van Ochten. Women Final 2010 freestyle rankings: 1st Sarah-Quita Offringa 2nd Yolanda Freites De Brendt 3rd Laure Treboux 4th Junko Nagoshi 5th Xenia Kessler.
For more information: www.pwaworldtour.com |  |  | Sarah-Quita Offringa |
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Sherman Island proved itself as the perfect location for a KB4girls event when 35 female kiteboarders put it to the test this past weekend. Located on the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta the island is known for water sports. With 20 knots, sunshine and a perfectly ebbing tide the conditions on Saturday turned out to be perfect. Thanks to the amazing kiteboarding school Kitopia and the Sherman Island Lake Marina the participants plus all the assistants were shuttled up to an easy launching and learning spot reserved only for the girls. | |
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