ICF 2023 SUP World Championships Updates Results

Tech. Races Saturday

Men Open Tech.

The Tech. Races from Saturday could not have been more exciting. Particularly the men’s open final. Right off the start two podium contenders fell off their boards and were out. First Noic Garioud who cold not jump on this board properly and fell in the water right off the beach. That was a huge upset for the french who just won gold in the long distance. Then 15 seconds later it was Andrey Kraitor who fell in off his board. By that time Connor Baxter was already in the lead by half a board lenth.

Then another big up set happened right behind Connor Baxter at the beach turn. It was Shuri Araki who clawed his way in to third before the flat and moved up into second right behind Connor at the re-entry, but then he fell jut like Noic and not only that, he then got over run by Antonio Morillo taking his board on his head and now he had to swim for his paddle. With Shrimpy now also far behind it was fair game for Connor who never gave up his lead once, probably also not know what was going on behind him.

1	Connor BAXTER	USA	05:57.8
2	Itzel DELGADO	PER	06:01.1	3.29
3	Antonio MORILLO	ESP	06:02.1	4.23
4	Rai TAGUCHI	JPN	06:03.2	5.33
5	Christian ANDERSEN	DEN	06:05.1	7.25
6	Eri TENORIO	BRA	06:12.2	14.38
7	Titouan PUYO	FRA	06:16.9	19.03
8	Shuri ARAKI	JPN	06:17.8	19.99
9	Clement COLMAS	FRA	06:20.9	23.05
10	Aaron SANCHEZ	ESP	06:27.3	29.52
11	Andrii KRAITOR	BUL	06:37.9	40.08
	Noic GARIOUD	FRA	DNF

Women Open Tech.

The women’s final had one but significant lead change. Melanie Lafenetre had the best start and kept the lead for the firs lap all the way to the first green turning buoy where things started to change. Esperanza tried to squeeze by on the inside with Juliette DuHaime right behind in third. On this stretch Espe was able to over take Melanie and arrived at the last green buoy first. She now had a good lead and it did not look like she was giving it away anymore. In the meanwhile behind her was a fierce battle for second and third between Juliette and Melanie, but Melanie was just stronger than Juliette saving her self onto the beach for silver.

1	Esperanza BARRERAS	ESP	06:46.0
2	Melanie LAFENETRE	FRA	06:49.1	3.15
3	Juliette DUHAIME	ARG	06:49.4	3.42
4	Anna TSCHIRKY	SUI	06:54.3	8.32
5	Alba ALONSO	ESP	06:58.8	12.89
6	Iona RIVET	FRA	07:00.0	13.99
7	Fiona WYLDE	USA	07:14.8	28.81
8	Seychelle WEBSTER	USA	07:15.5	29.53
9	Maddie MCASEY	NZL	07:18.6	32.65
10	Kimberly BARNES	USA	07:22.7	36.74
11	Rika OKUAKI	JPN	07:28.8	42.88
12	Izaskun MARTIN	ESP	07:31.9	45.93

Junior Men Tech.

1	Sergio CANTORAL	ESP	06:21.0
2	Vaic GARIOUD	FRA	06:29.3	8.24
3	Shimazu NARIAKIRA	JPN	06:32.7	11.64
4	Lluis PEROTTI	ESP	06:40.7	19.7
5	Ivan FRUTOS	ESP	06:41.5	20.48
6	Quinn PIRRIT	NZL	06:46.7	25.63
7	Kotaro MIYAHIRA	JPN	06:50.1	29.07
8	Simon ACKERMANN	FRA	06:52.8	31.74
9	Marc SIMONCELLI	ESP	06:53.7	32.69
10	Joan GARCIA	ESP	06:56.7	35.64
11	Ivan PUENTE	ESP	06:58.0	36.97
12	Nikolaos MALEKAKIS	GRE	07:01.6	40.53

Junior Girls Tech.

1	Claudia POSTIGLIONE	ITA	07:08.4
2	Csillag KOCSIS	HUN	07:16.8	8.48
3	Rosara DAVIS	NZL	07:23.9	15.57
4	Kyriaki LOGOTHETI	GRE	07:24.9	16.52
5	Amelia MORAL	ESP	07:26.1	17.72
6	Chiara VORSTER	RSA	07:35.2	26.84
7	Ines BLIN	ESP	07:36.5	28.13
8	Kanae SHIBAHARA	JPN	07:43.9	35.52
9	Skadi LANGBEIN	GER	07:48.3	39.89
10	Velia PISANELLI	ITA	07:52.6	44.21
11	Eleni NIKOLAIDI	GRE	07:56.7	48.37

Longdistance Friday

Noic Garioud wins another gold medal beating Shuri Araki by just a 0.66 second. Two of the bigger names did not make podium, Titouan Puyo missed to podium by 35 seconds and Michael Booth did not do very well at all, falling on the 10th place with almost a 3 minutes behind Noic. As we know Boothy we are sure this is not the result he was looking for.

1	Noic GARIOUD	FRA	01:29:36.17
2	Shuri ARAKI	JPN	01:29:36.83
3	Rai TAGUCHI	JPN	01:29:38.37
4	Titouan PUYO	FRA	01:30:11.23
5	Antonio MORILLO	ESP	01:30:22.61
6	Ludovic TEULADE	FRA	01:30:25.80
7	Aaron SANCHEZ	ESP	01:31:39.19
8	Ty JUDSON	AUS	01:31:45.97
9	Paolo MARCONI	ITA	01:32:09.30
10	Michael BOOTH	AUS	01:32:19.71
11	Eri TENORIO	BRA	01:33:12.06
12	Manuel HOYUELA	ESP	01:33:20.94
13	Daniel HASULYO	HUN	01:33:43.42
14	Itzel DELGADO	PER	01:34:27.74
15	Anastasios TSOURIS	GRE	01:34:37.28
16	Blue EWER	GBR	01:36:18.50
17	Fernando PEREZ	ESP	01:37:25.93
18	Linus KARLSSON	SWE	01:37:51.45
19	Jonathan HAGAN	AUS	01:37:57.80
20	Bodie VON ALLMEN	USA	01:38:15.30

Open women

Congratulations to Esperanza Barreras, she showed the world what she is made of and won the ICF world title solidifying here amazing 2023 season. The surprise of the day from our point of view was that Duna Gordillo came in third behind Kimberly Barnes who is entirely unknown in the European SUP Race circuit and therefore a bit of a dark horse when it comes to predictions. We hope to see more of her in 2024.

1	Esperanza BARRERAS	ESP	01:43:44.57
2	Kimberly BARNES	USA	01:43:58.26
3	Duna GORDILLO	ESP	01:44:06.68
4	Rika OKUAKI	JPN	01:45:07.81
5	Seychelle WEBSTER	USA	01:46:17.04
6	Anna TSCHIRKY	SUI	01:46:18.45
7	Iona RIVET	FRA	01:46:43.75
8	Natsumi BABA	JPN	01:46:48.79
9	Susak MOLINERO	ESP	01:48:46.06
10	Fiona WYLDE	USA	01:51:10.38
11	Laura QUETGLAS	ESP	01:54:03.65
12	Sonia CAIMARI	ESP	01:54:06.27
13	Izaskun MARTIN	ESP	01:54:08.01
14	Madeline LEBLANC	CAN	01:54:52.14
15	Athanasia KARAINDROU	GRE	01:55:23.15
16	Jo-Chi LEE	TPE	01:59:29.01
17	Sabine FISCHER	SUI	02:01:30.96
18	Reka SLEKTA	HUN	02:01:55.46
19	Camille HOURON	FRA	02:03:08.38
20	Jiwon CHOI	KOR	02:04:45.85

Sprint Racing (Wednesday / Thrusday)

With a total of 163 heat we just finished two days of SUP Sprints at the ICF SUP World Championships in Thailand. The first impression of the races was very impressive and all we immediately what to do is compare the ICF canoe style lane racing to the ISA surf style ocean racing but we are saving this for later. Right now its all about the athletes looking at their performance finishing a 200 meter race course between 48 seconds (Connor Baxter) and 1 minute 30 seconds (women master 50+)

One thing that really stood out in the first two days to see how many athletes found their way to Thailand and to see what a great platform the ICF is providing to all of them. We never get to see German SUP juniors going head to head with juniors from Thailand or China and so many other countries. With all the different divisions and age groups all eyes were still on the open class and there were some surprises.

One of the biggest surprises was that Cecilia Pampinella did not dominate the junior final like expected. She had to take silver behind Kyriaki LOGOTHETI from Greece by only 0.08 seconds. Another big surprise was the victory in the junior boys by the Indonesian Arip PURNAMA over Vaic Garioud by 0.4 seconds.

In the open class we also got gifted a few surprises. One was the Seychelle made the comeback of a live time. The semi retired APP World Champion from 2019 showed a solid performance in all her heats and beat her opponents with a clear lead of 1.72 seconds in the final. In fact the entire top 8 list is a bit of a surprise as our usual suspects with Esperanza Barreras, Melanie Lafenetre and Duna Gordillo did not make podium. Instead it was Juliette DuHaime and Tarry King who took the podium.

1	Seychelle WEBSTER	USA	1:03.04
2	Juliette DUHAIME	ARG	1:04.77 +1.72
3	Tarryn KING	RSA	1:05.39 +2.35
4	Melanie LAFENETRE	FRA	1:05.56 +2.51
5	Esperanza BARRERAS	ESP	1:05.70 +2.66
6	Iona RIVET	FRA	1:06.61 +3.57
7	Duna GORDILLO	ESP	1:07.46 +4.42
8	Maddie MCASEY	NZL	1:07.65 +4.61

In the open men the final could not have been more suspenseful. This year all eyes were on Andrey Kraitor. He paddled the fastest time all day long seriously questioning Connor Baxters title chances. Then in the final it was Noic Garioud who pushed the hardest. Even Andrey was leading up until almost the finish line, he could not hold his slim lead Noic made a big push winning by just shy of a board length while the battle for 2nd was extremely close as you can see in the picture.

1	Noic GARIOUD	FRA	50.75
2	Connor BAXTER	USA	51.57 +0.82
3	Andrii KRAITOR	BUL	51.76 +1.01
4	Davide ALPINO	ITA	53.42 +2.67
5	Eri TENORIO	BRA	53.80 +3.05
6	Guitong YE	CHN	53.85 +3.09
7	Rai TAGUCHI	JPN	54.17 +3.42
8	Christian ANDERSEN	DEN	54.78 +4.03

Congratulations to all the athletes in the other divisions

Medal count	Gold	Silver	Bronce
Greece	2	0	1
France	1	2	0
USA	1	1	0
Germany	1	0	0
ICF	1	0	0
Indonesia	1	0	0
Slovakia	1	0	0
Argentina	0	1	0
Australia	0	1	0