Mondello Water Festival 2024 Results

This weekend the Mondello Water Festival near Palermo on Sicily marked the EURO TOUR Stop Number Two. The price money of EUR 2000.- for each winner must have been big enough to get Titouan Puyo to come out of his (semi-) retirement. We have not seen Titou racing since the ICF Worlds in Thailand where he was fourth and before that at the ISA Worlds he was second in the Longdistance Race. In fact these were the only two SUP events Titou attended in 2023. His last big year was 2022 and he petty much dominated all year long.

The race promised to be as good as back in the old days with Titou and Boothy in the water battling for podium. The anticipation was big and frankly so was the reality check after the race. The two titans of the sport came way far behind not even close to top 10. That was quite a sobering moment for us here looking at the results.

Once again Shrimpy hung them them all out to dry, the Japanese junior won the podium with 41 seconds ahead of David Leao and one minute exact ahead of Donato Freens. That Shrimpy was going to put down a great result was no surprise but the over all results and the shake up in names and the place we are finding them in is not the order we are used to from the past. Was Titous comeback a failure? Did Boothy peak a few years ago? Maybe we are a bit premature with theses questions and this was a one tine hick up. One thing for sure, results like this keep things interesting and we are already looking forward to the next race and hope for a rematch.

Men Longdistance

Place	Time	Name	Country	Type
1	1:15:12	Shuri Araki	JPN	Elite Junior
2	1:15:53	David Leao	BRA	Elite M
3	1:16:12	Donato Freens	ITA	Elite M
4	1:16:15	Filippo Merculiali	ITA	Elite M
5	1:16:17	Ludovic Teulade	FRA	Elite M
6	1:16:18	Blue Ewer	UK	Elite M
7	1:16:21	Rai Taguchi	JPN	Elite M
8	1:16:25	Davide Alpino	ITA	Elite M
9	1:16:33	Oliver Houghton	NZL	Elite M
10	1:16:36	Eri Tenorio	BRA	Elite M
11	1:16:40	Paolo Marconi	ITA	Elite M
12	1:17:39	Vaïc Garioud	FRA	Elite Junior
13	1:18:46	Arthur Arutkin	FRA	Elite M
14	1:19:14	Itzel Delgado	PRU	Elite M
15	1:20:24	Ricardo Rossi	ITA	Elite M
16	1:22:06	Titouan Puyo	FRA	Elite M
17	1:23:34	Leo Nika	ITA	Elite M
18	1:23:38	Giancarlo Conte	ITA	Elite Junior
19	1:24:12	Michael Booth	AUS	Elite M
20	1:24:36	Tommaso Pampinella	ITA	Elite M
21	1:24:42	Fabrizio Rondinara	ARG	Elite Junior
22	1:26:42	Elias Alpino	ITA	Elite M
23	1:27:23	Riccardo Postillone	ITA	U16
24	1:27:37	Santino Rivera	ARG	Elite Junior
25	1:27:43	Gian luca Corriero	ITA	U14
26	1:27:54	Giuseppe Cossentino	ITA	Elite M
27	1:28:06	Giulio Brucciani	ITA	Elite Junior
28	1:28:15	Vincent Guillaume	ITA	Elite Kahuna
29	1:29:30	Mateo Pernisco	ITA	U16
30	1:30:03	Serse Sabato	ITA	U14
31	1:34:03	Mario La Mastra	ITA	Elite Master
32	1:36:43	Lefteris Maroulakis	GR	Elite Kahuna
33	1:38:58	Gianluca Galanti	ITA	Elite Kahuna
34	1:40:58	Marco Pizzo	ITA	Elite Master
35	1:42:58	Luigi Blancato	ITA	Elite Kahuna
36	1:46:58	Francesco Ligorio	ITA	Elite Master

Women Longdistance

The ladies had a perfect rematch from the Punta Ala SUP Race. Mariecarmen Rivera from Puerto Rico once again dominated not by seconds but by minutes. The battle for 2nd and 3rd was behind her just like in Punta Ala between Melanie Lafenetre and Juliette Duhaime. These two ladies crossed the finish line within 6 seconds from each other. The podium was pretty much a repeat, Mariecarmen up front in a good lead with Melanie and Juliette behind battling for the second place. Another, but a bit of an unfortunate repeat from the last EURO TOUR was Cecilia Pampinellas lag behind the front runners. Maybe we are holding her to higher standards after her great year in 2023 because after all she is still paddling in the junior division.

Susak Molinero was the only person holding it down for Spain. Once again we missed the Spanish power paddlers but frankly they are still working on their national team qualifications this weekend so they were busy with that.

Place	Time	Name	Country	Type
1	1:25:36	Mariecarmen Rivera	PR	Elite W
2	1:27:43	Melanie Lafenetre	FRA	Elite W
3	1:27:46	Juliette Duhaime	ARG	Elite W
4	1:29:54	Susak Molinero	ESP	Elite W
5	1:32:23	Iona Rivet	FRA	Elite W
6	1:32:56	Cecilia Pampinella	ITA	Elite Junior
7	1:33:49	Claudia Postiglione	ITA	U16
8	1:39:15	Laura Nitti	ITA	Elite W
9	1:39:24	Sveva Sabato	ITA	U14
10	1:39:25	Velia Pisanelli	ITA	Elite Junior
11	1:43:03	Miriana Mangialasche	ITA	U16
12	1:46:03	Bianca Scarangella	ITA	Elite Junior
13	1:46:58	Sofia Profeta	ITA	Elite Junior

You can watch the replay here from Matieu Mr. TotalSUP on Facebook: