With record temperatures in Belgium the 12th edition of the Namur SUP Race was a great success with 11nations enjoying the summer sun.
On a great show of strength the Dutch Junior Donato Freens had a clear strategy to break the pack at the half way mark paddling to second EURO TOUR
Showing renewed energy Australian Kaelan Lockhart got second as his best result to date. On the same pack was Ole Schwarz who had a great sprint to the line beating Tom Grosub after a few great performances this season he made the coveted podium. Closing the Top5 was Germanies Bastian Grimm on a solid effort to keep Hermann Husslein in 6th after he unluckily run into a branch on the river.
| 1 | Donato Freens | NL | 1:00:23 |
| 2 | Kaelan Lockhart | AUS | 1:02:14 |
| 3 | Ole Schwarz | BRD | 1:02:36 |
| 4 | Tom Grosup | CZE | 1:02:39 |
| 5 | Bastian Grimm | BRD | 1:04:32 |
| 6 | Hermann Husslein | BRD / THA | 1:05:12 |
| 7 | Ondre Petrak | CZE | 1:05:43 |
| 8 | Maximus Sijrier | NL | 1:06:04 |
| 9 | TOMAS LELOVITS | SLO | 1:06:46 |
| 10 | Thomas Dusart | FR | 1:06:49 |
| 11 | Gerd Weisner | BRD | 1:07:43 |
| 12 | Benyam Bossack | BRD | 1:07:47 |
| 13 | Anton Birkicht | BRD | 1:09:32 |
| 14 | Loek Hertog | NL | 1:08:43 |
| 15 | Tjidde Boers | NL | 1:10:12 |
| 16 | Wim Luyckx | BRD | 1:10:23 |
| 17 | Abrassart Maxime | FRA | 1:13:34 |
| 18 | Tom Sanders | NL | 1:14:43 |
| 19 | Viktor Kraus | BRD | 1:16:43 |
| 20 | David Kraus | BBRD | 1:17:45 |
| 21 | Thomas Tigges | BRD | 1:20:12 |
| 22 | Selwyn Pritchard | UK | 1:21:23 |
On the women side the Top 2 rapidly broke the pack with Petronella Van Malsen and Tanja Ecker working together the whole race. With only a few months into racing Belgium Local Nathalie Van Olmen shows a bright future ahead. On her best performance on an international event Myrte Derks showed a great performance. Closing the Top 5 was French Anne-Sophie Quennrsson on her first international showing.
| 1 | Petronella Van Malsen | NL | 1:11:44 |
| 2 | Tanja Ecker | BRD | 1:11:49 |
| 3 | Nathalie Van Olmen | BEL | 1:14:12 |
| 4 | Myrte Derks | NL | 1:16:12 |
| 5 | Anne-Sophie Quennrsson | FRA | 1:20:34 |
| 6 | Annie Ridsdillsmith | UK | 1:21:12 |
The Kid’s coming from the surrounding countries really stepped it up, doing the short course 5.5km for the smallest & the full 11km for the U-14 to Elite Juniors. A testament of how hard many of them train.
Check out the results from last year. If you like to get real nostalgic we have the results from 2013 here. Amazing to see how some people been in the sport for so long.