It is getting late in the year but the SUP Season is far from over. We concluded the first SUP World Championships in a series of three organizations who claim SUP World Titles. In the meanwhile we have been keeping track all year round of a unified system that keeps track of SUP races around the globe based on mathematics. We believe, even if its not completely flaw less, this system is by far the best the SUP Race community can get.
With that being said we don’t want to take away from the athletes accomplishments. For example Shrimpy who just made it back into the top 10 with only 4 races on to board. Shrimpy has been in and out of the top 10 since the APP race in Spain. Compare this for example with Manuel Lauble with 11 races, Shrimpy is only 424 points behind, but has 7 races less. Imagine Shrimpy showing up for a European SUP Summer. He be dominating everybody on this list. This is why we still need a unified and agreed upon SUP Tour that everybody goes so the race count of these athletes is not all over the place. The APP has been trying to do that since day one but sadly had not figured out how to gain the loyalty of the international SUP community, but that is another topic for the season finale.
Now lets celebrate the new entries and amazing performance from all the SUP athletes out there.
Men Longdistance
As mentioned all the newcomers stem from the ISA, except Manuel Lauble who racked up some local results in Germany. Normen Weber is German Champion and 1. at the Bavarian Waters SUP race that gave him the points needed to move in 2nd place. Despite Donato Freens 13th place in the ISA he will be very had to catch unless he sits out the ICF SUP Worlds and Normen makes podium, but even that wont be enough, he would have to do really good in Paris in December as well with Donato not being there.
| Rank | Name | Country | Races | Points | Change |
| 1 | Donato Freens | NED | 13 | 3872.97 | → |
| 2 | Normen Weber | GER | 10 | 2886.68 | ↑1 |
| 3 | Christian Andersen | DEN | 8 | 2602.25 | ↓1 |
| 4 | Manuel Lauble | GER | 11 | 2493.44 | NEW |
| 5 | Bruno Hasulyo | HUN | 7 | 2493.44 | → |
| 6 | Michael Booth | AUS | 6 | 2252.18 | → |
| 7 | Ludovic Teulade | FRA | 6 | 2237.45 | ↓3 |
| 8 | Noic Garioud | FRA | 4 | 2180.56 | NEW |
| 9 | Blue Ewer | UK | 7 | 2171.46 | ↑1 |
| 10 | Shuri Araki | JPN | 4 | 2069.2 | NEW |
Women Longdistance
The ladies competitive SUP is much better to follow than the men. The women top 4 pretty much fall in line with the ISA Worlds. Esperanza Barreras ramains the undisputed worlds number one. Despite her 2nd place at the ISA Duna remains in 4th position as she is missing out on one race. Sadly Mariecarmen Rivera did not make the cut she sure would deserve it after her great showing, but she is just not present enough to get into the top ten. For now she remains on rank 16.
| Rank | Name | Country | Races | Points | Change |
| 1 | Esperanza Barreras | ESP | 9 | 2895.8 | → |
| 2 | Anna Tschirky | SUI | 12 | 2628.64 | → |
| 3 | Cecilia Pampinella | ITA | 9 | 2206.77 | → |
| 4 | Duna Gordillo | ESP | 8 | 2018.45 | → |
| 5 | Tanja Ecker | GER | 7 | 1144.67 | ↑1 |
| 6 | Candice Appleby | USA | 6 | 1009.55 | ↓1 |
| 7 | Emma Freja Pedersen | DEN | 7 | 913.89 | → |
| 8 | Claudia Postiglione | ITA | 6 | 885.89 | → |
| 9 | Iona Rivet | FRA | 6 | 829.56 | NEW |
| 10 | Petronella Van Malsen | NL | 5 | 824.21 | ↓1 |
Men Tech. Race
We notice here that the race count in this category is way lower than in the longdistance, therefore Shrimpys 1st place has moved him right into rank two. Christian Andersen has twice as many races as Shrimpy, one more race and Shrimpy could move to the top. Lets see what happens next month in Thailand. Noic also made the list with his 2nd place in France but he has one race less than Shrimpy. We can now all look forward to the ICF Tech. Races that for sure will look a bit different than the ISA.
| Rank | Name | Country | Races | Points | Change |
| 1 | Christan Andersen | DEN | 8 | 2710.93 | → |
| 2 | Shuri Araki | JPN | 4 | 2225.65 | NEW |
| 3 | Connor Baxter | USA | 4 | 2016.8 | ↓2 |
| 4 | Ollie Houghton | NZL | 6 | 1786.65 | ↑1 |
| 5 | Davide Alpino | ITA | 6 | 1758 | ↓3 |
| 6 | Noic Garioud | FRA | 3 | 1599.9 | NEW |
| 7 | Donato Freens | NL | 6 | 1570.18 | ↓1 |
| 8 | Blue Ewer | UK | 6 | 1490.18 | ↑2 |
| 9 | Fernando Perez | ESP | 5 | 1467.32 | ↓2 |
| 10 | Claudio Nika | ITA | 5 | 1467.32 | ↓2 |
Women Tech. Race
Esperanza dethroned Cecilia Pampinella. These two been going back and forth all year long. Sadly Cecilia did not do too good in France. Her 10th place and Espes win did set them apart by many points now. Mariecarmen Rivera and Melanie Lafenetre both came into the top 10 with their podium placement at the ISA.
| Rank | Name | Country | Races | Pts | Change |
| 1 | Esperanza Barreras | ESP | 7 | 2016.73 | ↑1 |
| 2 | Cecilia Pampinella | ITA | 8 | 1526.13 | ↓1 |
| 3 | Juliette Duhaime | ARG | 5 | 1334.44 | → |
| 4 | Anna Tschirky | SUI | 6 | 1035.8 | ↑1 |
| 5 | Caroline Kuntzel | DEN | 4 | 970.19 | ↓1 |
| 6 | Marie Carmen Rivera | PUR | 6 | 881.26 | NEW |
| 7 | Melanie Lafenetre | FRA | 3 | 853.8 | NEW |
| 8 | Fiona Wylde | USA | 3 | 831.8 | ↓2 |
| 9 | Claudia Postiglione | ITA | 6 | 773.27 | ↓2 |
| 10 | Duna Gordillo | ESP | 3 | 749.3 | ↓3 |
Sprint men
If you look at the race count of the athletes you can clearly tell that we have a lack of sprint races in this world. Why race organizers shy away makes no sense to us here at the Stand Up Magazin.
Christian Andersens disappointing final miss, still gave him the push to move to the top, but by a really slim margin ahead of Claudio Nika who was third. In fact if you look from rank 2 to 4 its the ISA podium in reverse. Unfortunately the final 4th did not make top 10: Aaron Sanchez 397.98 point for that one race were not enough. This circumstance allows us to compare his score with Filippo Meruriali who also has only one race but 504 points. Filippo won the Agios race in Greece. That race must have ranked higher in the scale. We might speculate that has to do with the fact that the ISA does not pay price money and the race in Greece was an ICF World Cup with a big prize purse.
| Rank | Name | Country | Races | Points | Change |
| 1 | Christan Andersen | DEN | 2 | 800.16 | ↑6 |
| 2 | Claudio Nika | ITA | 2 | 773.74 | NEW |
| 3 | Ollie Houghton | NZL | 2 | 713.65 | NEW |
| 4 | Noic Garioud | FRA | 1 | 589.6 | NEW |
| 5 | Andrey Kraitor | BUL | 1 | 576 | ↓5 |
| 6 | Itzel Delgado | PER | 2 | 571.65 | NEW |
| 7 | Ondej Petrak | CZE | 3 | 535.04 | ↑1 |
| 8 | Matyas Soukup | CZE | 3 | 506.93 | ↓6 |
| 9 | Linus Karlsson | SWE | 2 | 506.93 | ↓6 |
| 10 | Filippo Mercuriali | ITA | 1 | 504 | ↓6 |
Sprint women
The women sprint rankings are a bit all over the place. We did see many sprint races in eastern Europe and with the lack of participation of the well known paddlers this list was and still is dominated by eastern European ladies. The ISA event has now created a bit of a mix. It would have been great to see Linda Syrovatkova racing in France to find out how she stands against the rest of the field.
| Rank | Name | Country | Races | Pts | Change |
| 1 | Linda Syrovatkova | CZE | 5 | 523.42 | → |
| 2 | Caroline Kuntzel | DEN | 2 | 507.4 | ↑1 |
| 3 | Cecilia Pampinella | ITA | 2 | 479.62 | ↑1 |
| 4 | Iva Dundova | CZE | 3 | 452.25 | ↓3 |
| 5 | Marta Apanasewicz | POL | 2 | 404.95 | ↓2 |
| 6 | Melanie Lafenetre | FRA | 1 | 368.5 | NEW |
| 7 | Lucie Raab | CZE | 5 | 302.1 | ↓2 |
| 8 | Mariecarmen Rivera | PUR | 1 | 294.8 | NEW |
| 9 | Anna Tschirky | SUI | 2 | 262.6 | NEW |
| 10 | Skadi Langbein | GER | 2 | 251.4 | ↓3 |
ISA recap
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