Balaton 2021 ICF SUP Worlds. Who is competing.

One month to go and we will see the SUP event of the year. After the CAS decision, it became quite quiet about ISA vs ICF. The ISA is busy with Tokyo anyway and probably enjoys the deserved success after long hard work to finally bring surfing to the Olympics. The people at ICF are not sitting around idly either, as we saw in our interview. So they are preparing with a lot of power and work for the upcoming SUP World Championships at Lake Balaton.

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Now it’s time to sign up and if you’re not sure yet, you can also take a look at who’s already there. That’s exactly what we did and picked a few names that we see again and again on the podiums of different races where we think they have a chance to win a medal.

But there are also a lot of new names from Eastern Europe in the sport and it may well be that we have one or two Drakhorse whose name we have never heard before.

However, not all of the big names are registered yet and we hope that some of them will join us.

Open Men favorites

• Connor Baxter: Winner 200m Sprint in China 2019 – Multiple SUP Champ over the last decade.
• Michael Booth: Longdistance Champ ICF 2019 – ISA Worldchamp and Australian Champion
• Andrey Kraitor: Olympian Powerhouse from the Canoe World
• Normen Weber: Canoe champion and multiple German SUP Champion
• Christian Taucher: Austrian SUP Champ and president of the Austrian SUP Federation.
• Alain Luck: SUP Tour Switzerland Champion

Open Women

• Fiona Wylde: 3. Longdistance ICF China 2019, EUOR TOUR Champion and multiple Titles
• April Zilg: APP Vice Worldchamp, Goldmedallie Pan American Games 2019
• Susanne Lier: SUP Coach, Mutter and EURO TOUR Athlete
• Anna Tschirky: SUP Tour Switzerland and PPG 2018 Junior 15-17 champion

Further athletes from the local (CH/BRD/AUT) SUP Community

Germany

Name	Jahrgang	Raceclass
Gäbler Alex	1963	Men 50 – long distance
Ullstein Thomas	1962	Men 50 – long distance
Kreisel Thomas	1968	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – long distance
Hauke Christian	1971	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Kreß Jürgen	1966	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Kämmerer Andreas	1965	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Pallmer Dominik	1970	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Weisner Gerd	1968	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Kennel Wolfgang	1963	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Giritsch Jan	2004	Men junior – sprint, Men junior – technical, Men junior – long distance
Capizzi Michele	1976	Men 40 – long distance
Pötschk Karsten	1976	Men 40 – sprint, Men 40 – long distance
Kickel Michael	1973	Men 40 – sprint, Men 40 – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Hage Timo	1976	Men 40 – sprint, Men 40 – technical, Men 40 – long distance
Weidert Peter	1972	Men 40 – sprint, Men 40 – technical, Men 40 – long distance
Dünzinger Arnd	1965	Men 50 – long distance
Ostfeld Markus	1985	Men open – sprint, Men open – inflatable
Kämmerer Andrea	1977	Women 40 – sprint, Women 40 – technical, Women 40 – long distance
Eder-Meyer Susanne	1976	Women 40 – technical, Women 40 – long distance, Women open – inflatable

Switzerland

Guillermin Stéphane	1972	Men 40 – sprint, Men 40 – technical, Men 40 – long distance
Roth Dominik	1976	Men 40 – technical, Men 40 – long distance
Reynard Cedric	1967	Men 50 – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Schaetzle Rainer	1962	Men 50 – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Cahenzli Adrian	1969	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Donzé Guido	1971	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Mülhauser Peter	1967	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Munz Mallaury	2006	Men junior – sprint, Men junior – technical, Men junior – long distance
Laïmina Hicham	1984	Men open – sprint, Men open – technical, Men open – long distance
Champendal Lidvina	1977	Women 40 – long distance
mahoney yvi	1978	Women 40 – technical, Women 40 – long distance
Angéloz Nicole	1987	Women open – sprint, Women open – technical, Women open – long distance
Rossel Loreline	1992	Women open – sprint, Women open – technical, Women open – long distance
Koman Natapat	2006	Men junior – sprint, Men junior – technical, Men junior – long distance

Austria

Durchschlag Michael	1980	Men 40 – sprint, Men 40 – technical, Men 40 – long distance
Hassenpflug Holger	1972	Men 40 – sprint, Men 40 – technical, Men 40 – long distance
Hödl Norbert	1972	Men 40 – sprint, Men 40 – technical, Men 40 – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Ebner Alexander	1979	Men 40 – sprint, Men open – inflatable
Ksander Klaus	1969	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Pyffrader Martin	1971	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Fink Fredy	1971	Men 50 – sprint, Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Marketz Michael	1970	Men 50 – technical, Men 50 – long distance
Marketz Jakob	2004	Men junior – sprint, Men junior – technical, Men junior – long distance
Reiner Philipp	1983	Men open – sprint, Men open – technical, Men open – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Taucher Christian	1981	Men open – sprint, Men open – technical, Men open – long distance, Men open – inflatable
Korschelt Andrea	1957	Women 50 – sprint, Women 50 – long distance
Pyffrader Petra	1969	Women 50 – sprint, Women 50 – technical, Women 50 – long distance
Unterweger Nina	1988	Women open – long distance, Women open – inflatable
Büchler Nadjeschda	1983	Women open – sprint, Women open – technical

In my opinion, there are still a few names missing. Let’s hope we will still get a few supplements. The deadline is not yet.

Sign up now: https://entry.balaton2021.com/registration

Lastly, I’m happy to be on site as a commentator and to guide you through the races together with Matieu Astier from totalSUP.

See you at Lake Balaton.