It’s time again to look at the weekly SUP Top Ten list. While most of the world was looking at the Longdistance Race “Paddle for Hercules” in Andalusia, there were actually some other races that made an impact to the SUP World Rankings.
Pretty much all of Italy paddled at the Trasimeno SUP Race, they held Longdistance and a Tech. Race. We are glad Tibor Hasulyo is paying attention and is adding races to the rankings that are lesser know but have a great local turn out.
Same thing in Brazil, there was a race last weekend, the “Ultimate Paddle Brasil” this race did not much to shuffle to many positions but it did enough for us to see some unknown names making an appearance in the Worlds Top Ten list.
Men Longdistance
Despite not winning the Paddle for Hercules, Donato Freens remains on top of the list. The winner of that race, Aaron Sanchez only paddled in this race so far and the points of this medium rated race were not enough to get him into the Top 10. The biggest jump came from Thomas Dusart who became 2nd at a small race in France. However, with 5 races completed this season the 2nd place there was enough to move up 4 spots.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | Races | Last Result | Change |
| 1 | Donato Freens | NED | 1570.05 | 4 | 2. Battle for Hercules | → |
| 2 | Thomas Dusart | FRA | 968.6 | 5 | 2. Amiens Paddle Race | ↑ 4 |
| 3 | Normen Weber | GER | 863.56 | 3 | 4. Spring SUP Race | ↓ 1 |
| 4 | Rai Taguchi | JPN | 863.2 | 2 | 1. Sprint SUP Race | ↓ 1 |
| 5 | Antonio Morillo | ESP | 828.63 | 2 | 3. Battle for Hercules | NEW |
| 6 | Ludovic Teulade | FRA | 815.24 | 2 | 6. Spring SUP Race | ↓ 2 |
| 7 | Bode von Allmen | USA | 797.85 | 4 | 3. Dana Ocean Challenge | ↓ 2 |
| 8 | Filippo Mercuriali | ITA | 770.36 | 3 | 1. Trasimeno SUP Race | NEW |
| 9 | Ricardo Rossi | ITA | 714.32 | 3 | 3. Trasimeno SUP Race | ↑ 1 |
| 10 | Danny Ching | USA | 697.2 | 3 | 1. Dana Ocean Challenge | ↓ 3 |
Women Longdistance
At this time the women Top 10 does not quite look how we were used to it from last year. Right now it is Laura Quetglas who is leading the pack. But Petronalla van Malsen is having a good season. After her win that the GlaGla Race, she won the Rondje Haarleem race which is part of the Belgium SUP Tour. Cecilia Pampinella also jumps up 4 spots, she won the Longdistance at the Trasimeno SUP Race.
After that, we do not see too many exciting moves in the list. The season is young and big names like Duna Gordillo or Esperanza Barreras have not arrived yet. One name to look out for this season, given she will be racing more, is Alba Frey. She is not on he list yet but won the “Battle for Hercules”, but the points from that one race are not enough yet to make the Top 10.
We are hoping the women’s Longdistance competition for 2024 shapes up as suspenseful as it was in 2023.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | Races | Last Result | Change |
| 1 | Laura Quetglas | ESP | 532.53 | 2 | 4. Battle for Hercules | ↑ 3 |
| 2 | Petronella van Malsen | NED | 428.5 | 2 | 1. Rondje Haarleem BeNe SUP Tour | ↑ 6 |
| 3 | Samantha Eastburn | USA | 406.22 | 4 | 2. Dana Ocean Challenge | ↓ 2 |
| 4 | Juliette DuHaime | ARG | 405.75 | 2 | 1. ProSayulita SUP Open | ↓ 2 |
| 5 | Cecilia Pampinella | ITA | 404.72 | 2 | 1. Trasimeno SUP Race | ↑ 4 |
| 6 | Soryn Preston | USA | 402.05 | 3 | 1. Dana Ocean Challenge | ↓ 3 |
| 7 | Jessica Matos | BRA | 381.25 | 2 | 1. Ultimate Paddle Brazil | NEW |
| 8 | Vira Lemekha | UKR | 373.6 | 3 | 5. Trasimeno SUP Race | ↓ 2 |
| 9 | Lia Venturelli | ITA | 368.92 | 3 | 2. Trasimeno SUP Race | ↑ 1 |
| 10 | Kunthong Supatchaya | THA | 316.2 | 2 | 1. SUP Addict Champ. | ↓ 1 |
Tech. Race Men
Once again we have Donato Freens on top of the list, but the Italians were busy with the Trasimeno SUP Race shaking up the rankings from the SUP Spring Race. If we continue to have a busy season with Tech. Races this category may surprise us with new names being present permanently in the Top 10. All the movement behind Donato Freens stems from the Trasimeno SUP Race and the one race in Brazil.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | Races | Last Result | Change |
| 1 | Donato Freens | NED | 954.02 | 2 | 3. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 2 | Filippo Mercuriali | ITA | 760.9 | 2 | 2. Trasimeno SUP Race | ↑ 1 |
| 3 | Ricardo Rossi | ITA | 622.88 | 2 | 1. Trasimeno SUP Race | ↑ 4 |
| 4 | Rai Taguchi | JPN | 616.8 | 1 | 1. Spring SUP Race | ↓ 2 |
| 5 | Tomasso Pampinella | ITA | 542.9 | 2 | 7. Trasimeno SUP Race | ↓ 1 |
| 6 | Filippo Alberti | ITA | 416.6 | 2 | 6. Trasimeno SUP Race | NEW |
| 7 | Cameron Tripney | RSA | 416.34 | 1 | 4. Srping SUP Race | ↓ 2 |
| 8 | Zeno Szabo | HUN | 413.48 | 2 | 5. Trasimeno SUP Race | NEW |
| 9 | Arthur Santacreu | BRA | 385.72 | 2 | 11. Ultimate Paddle Brasil | NEW |
| 10 | Christian Andersen | DEN | 379.6 | 1 | 1. ProSayulita SUP Open | ↓ 4 |
Tech. Race Women
Cecilia Pampinella won the Trasimeno SUP Race and is now 100 points in the lead. We see a big move from Jessica Matos your 2nd place in Brazil. Her other race was the Aloha Spirit Festival where she won the Tech. Race. This is the first big move of a racer collecting points from races outside of Europe. As of right now we do not see a clear trend in this category. This might all come down to which organizers choose to hold Tech. Races at their events.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | Races | Last Result | Change |
| 1 | Cecilia Pampinella | ITA | 543.5 | 2 | 1. Trasimeno SUP Race | ↑ 1 |
| 2 | Paris Katniss | USA | 431.77 | 2 | 2. Spring SUP Race | ↓ 1 |
| 3 | Jessica Matos | BRA | 341.2 | 2 | 2. Ultimate Paddle Brazil | ↑ 7 |
| 4 | Lemekha Vira | UKR | 320.16 | 2 | 4. Trasimano SUP Race | ↑ 1 |
| 5 | Cieplinska Malgorzata | POL | 297.5 | 1 | 1. GlaGla | ↓ 1 |
| 6 | Laura Quetglas | ESP | 246.72 | 1 | 3. Spring SUP Race | ↓ 2 |
| 7 | Juliette DuHaime | ARG | 237.25 | 1 | 1. ProSayulita SUP Open | ↓ 1 |
| 8 | Marta Apanasewicz | POL | 200.46 | 1 | 4. Spring SUP Race | ↓ 1 |
| 9 | Lena Riberio | BRA | 200.24 | 1 | 1. Ultimate Paddle Brasil | NEW |
| 10 | Zusanna Tylingo | POL | 190.4 | 1 | 3. GlaGla | ↓ 2 |
Sprint Race Men
Sprint is the most under rated race category. There fore we have not much movement in this list. Filippo Mercuriali holds on to the top as the only one with 2 races. His first result was his victory at the Florence Paddle Games. The two newcomers in the top then here are the guys from Brazil. Who know maybe the we will see more sprint races in South America than in Europe.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | Races | Last Result | Change |
| 1 | Filippo Mercuriali | ITA | 718.02 | 2 | 3. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 2 | Cameron Tripney | RSA | 616.8 | 1 | 1. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 3 | Normen Weber | GER | 539.7 | 1 | 2. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 4 | Sergio Cantoral | ESP | 416.34 | 1 | 4. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 5 | Iwai Sota | JPN | 370.08 | 1 | 5. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 6 | Rai Taguchi | JPN | 339.24 | 1 | 6. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 7 | David Leao | BRA | 320.4 | 1 | 1. Ultimate Paddle Brasil | NEW |
| 8 | Doukas Phaedon | GRE | 308.4 | 1 | 7. Spring SUP Race | ↓1 |
| 9 | Arthur Santacreu | BRA | 280.35 | 1 | 2. Ultimate Paddle Brasil | NEW |
| 10 | Samuel Peska | CZE | 277.56 | 1 | 8. Spring SUP Race | ↓2 |
Sprint Race Women
All women in the top 10 have one race under their belt and that was the ICF sanctioned Spring SUP Race. We have just like on the men side new names in the list coming from Brazil.
| Rank | Name | Nation | Points | Races | Last Result | Change |
| 1 | Cecilia Pampinella | ITA | 385.5 | 1 | 1. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 2 | Susak Molinero | ESP | 308.4 | 1 | 2. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 3 | Kyriaki Logotheti | GRE | 246.72 | 1 | 3. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 4 | Sabine Fischer | SUI | 200.46 | 1 | 4. Spring SUP Race | → |
| 5 | Jessica Matos | BRA | 200.25 | 1 | 1. Ultimate Paddle Brasi | NEW |
| 6 | Roseli Novloski | BRA | 160.2 | 1 | 2. Ultimate Paddle Brasil | NEW |
| 7 | Marta Apanasewicz | POL | 154.2 | 1 | 5. Spring SUP Race | ↓ 2 |
| 8 | Candice Appleby | USA | 131 | 1 | 1. Afterglow Series 1 | ↓ 2 |
| 9 | Lena Ribero | BRA | 128.16 | 1 | 3. Ultimate Paddle Brasil | NEW |
| 10 | Maria Metta | ITA | 123.36 | 1 | 6. Spring SUP Race | ↓ 3 |