FIAT Freestyle Kiteboard World Cup – 40 000USD 2007 Kiteboard Pro World Tour – since 1999 Colico Fun Center, Cremia – Como Lake - Italy 25th June / 1st July 2007 – Freestyle – Course Racing – Best Tricks – Hang Time Event Website : www.kiteboardpro.com Today, all along the afternoon, best pro riders gradually arrived on the Italian event site for the traditional registration day of the first stage of the KPWT season. Among these professional men and women kiteboarding athletes, we may count eleven nationalities like the Italian team with Stefano Maselli, Giuseppe Esposito, Peter Geier and Erik Volpe among others for men and Roberta Raffaeta and Nicoletta Solda for women. The 2006 KPWT World Champion Sebastien Garat, Antoine Auriol, Vincent Tiger; the 2006 Junior KPWT World Champion Florian Daubos, Victor Hays, the New Caledonian Tom Hebert, Adrien Jaujou and Guillaume Mariani for men and Helene Barriere – 2006 French and European champion – and Celine Rodenas will compose the French team. Other nationalities will also take part in this kiteboarding world cup leg : the Polish riders Victor Borsuk and Michael Malinowski, the South African Clinton Bolton, Soufiane Hamaini for Morocco, the English Christian Holley, Boris Judin from Croatia, the Dutch rider Sander Lenten and Mitu Monteiro from Cabo Verde. Spanish girls also made the road to Lake Como like Noelia Nunez, the KPWT Wave World Champion Ainhoa Garcia and Paloma Guerrero. We may also notice that the well-known German rider Kristin Boese – Kiteboarding World Champion – is also registered for this first KPWT 2007 event. Tonight, the opening ceremony with the welcoming cocktail and the presentation of riders to the press and other medias and after, a music concert on the event village. Tomorrow morning, at 10.00 Am, will take place the also traditional first skippers meeting with, we all hope, the start of the Freestyle competition if the wind is with us. Further news and Freestyle men and women draws on the next day… Keep updated, KPWT Team

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26-06-2007
After the lunch, everybody was ready to launch the Freestyle competition; Unfortunately, the wind wasn’t enough strong and then all riders have had to wait good conditions along all the afternoon… without success !
Nonetheless, everybody’s enjoy to be here and many other activities are proposed during this waiting time : Beach soccer, Dj’s set, various clothings and motorcycles stands among others,…
Tonight, snack and animations on the event village and tomorrow the skippers meeting is scheduled at 10.00 with the start of the Freestyle.
KPWT Team

27-06-2007
Today, after the skippers meeting at 10.00, the local wind – called Breva – gradually picked up from 15 to 25 knots, perfect conditions to launch the women and men freestyle first rounds. See the results for this first day of the event below – in bold, the rider names who won and goes to the next round .
We may already notice the good results of local riders Stefano Maselli, Arthur Catalani and Erik Volpe for men and Nicoletta Solda on the women side. At 4.30 Pm, the Breva suddently stopped blowing and race direction made the decision to stop competition for today only four heats before the end of the first rounds.
Tomorrow, we’ll continue the freestyle event but for tonight, a Thai beer and the “Night on the beach” parties are waiting for us…The next skippers meeting is already scheduled at 11.00 Am with strong wind conditions already announced.
Further news coming soon,
KPWT Team

FREESTYLE 1st ROUND
HEAT 1
Sébastien GARAT (FRA)
Peter GEIER(ITA)
HEAT 2
Christian HOLLEY(UK)
Roberto MASELLI(ITA)
HEAT 3
David JEHANNO(FRA)
Arthur CATALANI(ITA)
HEAT 4
Stefano MASELLI(ITA)
Antonio SALZONE(ITA)
HEAT 5
Florian DAUBOS(FRA)
Stefano MARTINELLI(ITA)
HEAT 6
Erik VOLPE(ITA)
Matthieu JUDIC(FRA)
HEAT 7
Mitu MONTEIRO(CV)
Adrien JAUJOU(FRA)
HEAT 8
Guillaume MARIANI(FRA)
Samuele LAQUINTANA(ITA)
HEAT 9
Antoine AURIOL(FRA)
Renato CASATI(ITA)
HEAT 10
Tom HEBERT(FRA)
Michael MALINOWSKI(POL)
HEAT 11
Victor HAYS(FRA)
Cyril ROCHARD(FRA)
HEAT 12
Sander LENTEN(NED)
Victor BORSUK(POL)

29-06-2007

Sebastien GARAT, winner of the Freestyle men first bracket

Today, the « Breva » started to blow earlier than the previous day ; then, after the skippers meeting, we directly launched the freestyle competition.
First, we finished the Freestyle women first bracket with the looser final where the Spanish rider Noelia Nunez defeated the local one Nicoletta Solda.

Then, the men final rounds : In the second semi final heat, the New Caledonian Tom Hebert defeats Giuseppe Esposito for a place in the winner final. The Italian rider also lost his heat against Florian Daubos in the looser final. The ultimate heat between Sebastien Garat against Tom Hebert turned into the advantage of the 2006 World Champion in a very high level battle !

On Garat’s side, he successively landed BackMobe 5, Blind Judge, FrontMobe, Late BackMobe, Slim Chance and SBend 3.
Hebert answered with a Backroll to blind airpass, BackMobe, Blind Judge 3, Slim Chance and Kiteloop Backloop.

Here is the ranking of this first freestyle bracket :
Men
1stSebastien Garat (FRA)
2ndTom Hebert (NC)

3rdFlorian Daubos (FRA)
4thGiuseppe Esposito (ITA)

Women

1stHélène BARRIERE (FRA)

2ndKristin Boese (GER)

3rdNoelia Nunez (SPA)
4thNicoletta Solda (ITA)

After the lunch, thanks to the keep of strong conditions, we launched the freestyle men second bracket.
At 4.00 Pm, the wind suddenly picked down and the race direction decided to stop the freestyle competition before the 46th heat. All the riders were ready to continue this second bracket, waiting for good wind conditions, and at 5.30 Pm, the wind picked up again so the race direction made the decision to continue the competition until the end of the afternoon.

We may noticed the good results of Sander Lenten faced to Antoine Auriol, Mitu Monteiro from Cabo Verde, Victor Borsuk from Poland and Adrien Jaujou, the French rider who defeats his compatriot Vincent Tiger in quarter finals.

Tonight, we’re all invited for a party on the event site organized by our clothing partner “Misultine Zone”.
Next skippers meeting tomorrow at 11.00 Am with the end of the freestyle competition and the possible course racing competition. …Further news coming tomorrow,

KPWT Team

28-06-2007

FULL AFTERNOON FOR THE FREESTYLE COMPETITION…
HELENE BARRIERE, WINNER OF THE FIRST FREESTYLE BRACKET

Today, the wind picked up at 1.00 Pm. Then we have had the possibility to finish the men first round. Thanks to the keep of good wind conditions, we immediately launched second rounds of the freestyle competition.On the men side, we assisted many huge fights between lots of talentuous riders.

The heat of Vincent Tiger against the South-African Clinton Bolton in the first round turned into the advantage to the second rider; the battle between Sébastien Garat and Christian Holley where Sebastien has had to show his wide range of technical moves to win this heat; The 2006 KPWT World Champion, in a great shape, kicked out the local rider Stefano Maselli and his friend Florian Daubos to obtain a ticket for the winner final of this first freestyle bracket. The 100French conflict between Adrien Jaujou and Guillaume Mariani, was finally won by Jaujou after a very tightened heat. The New Caledonian rider, Tom Hebert, made a demonstration during all the evening : First against Antoine Auriol in a very high level heat, then he kicked out the Dutch rider Sander Lenten –who previously defeated the French rider Victor Hays– to climb himself to the semi-final.

On the women side, we also assisted a great show for semi-finals between the Spanish Noelia Nunez and Kristin Boese; This kiteboarding fight turned into the advantage to the German rider. On the other women semi-final of the freestyle competition, the French and European kiteboarding champion Helene Barriere defeats the local rider Nicoletta Solda. During the winner final, the French made the difference and won the first freestyle bracket of this first KPWT event of the 2007 season.

We may one more time noticed the good shape of Italian riders Giuseppe Esposito and Stefano Maselli who, unfortunately should defeats his compatriot and friend Arthur Catalani to continue the freestyle competition. Esposito, on his side, consecutively defeats Boris Judin, Clinton Bolton and Louis Hutter to arrive in semi-final where – tomorrow morning–, he’ll have to face the New Caledonian Tom Hebert.
Tonight, everybody will join the event village to a great FMX show, the FIAT FREESTYLE TEAM one with international motocross stars and tomorrow, we’ll complete the freestyle first brackets if the “Breva” is still on our side … Next skippers meeting tomorrow at 11.00 Am…Further news coming tomorrow

KPWT Team