From the SUP Alps Trophy to another big Weekend of SUP Racing. This time in Barcelona with the World SUP Fest.
Sunday Tech. Race
We do not have much info on the Tech. Race. This was not part of the EURO TOUR there are no results posted, the event website does not have the results either. The only reliable source here was TotalSUP with the podium results but no further info. Maybe once the SWR is out for the week we will have more results. Same thing by the way for the foiling part in which we would have been very much interested.
On the ladies side we had Esperanza Barerras winning ahead of Juliette Duhaime and Seychelle Webster. (In case you wondered her last name). We are sure both ladies were very happy with their podium as both of them were a bit further behind in the Longdistance as people might have thought. Espe must have been a class on her own once again and finishes the weekend with a great pay day.
The men’s podium was completely different from the longdistance. It was Itzel Delgado winning ahead of Rai Taguchi and Sergio Cantoral. Itzel and Sergio must have been particularly happy as both of their longdistance races did not go particularly well.
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The longdistance race in Barcelona started with big delay due to some unforeseen weather with rain. The rain caused technical difficulties with the live boardcast so the start had be pushed back. The broadcast then was rather sub par and the commentators often had to guess who is who due to lack of imagery. The drone was up way too late, then could not find the paddlers and boat camera at one time just pointed at the floor and then whole thing went out. (In all fairness we also have to mention that we turned off the live stream after about 1:15hour because it was getting late here in Hawaii.)
Once the images came back it became already clear who is once again dominating the race: Mr. Shrimy Araki. Shrimpy is easy to spot as he is the only one on a different color board and… he is leading the pack anyway. We finally had a decent drone shot about 30 minutes into the race and we are getting a picture of Shrimpy hammering away like its a Sprint Race. There is nobody behind him and he is rounding the buoy all by him self. Then only once the drone zooms out and Shrimpy is way past the buoy the pack that is chasing him is finally seen in the frame.
This (blurry) screenshot was the moment we all realize: Shrimpy is from another planet. He was well underway after the buoy when the pack finally arrived.
The results then speak volumes as Shrimpy finished the 12K race 42 seconds faster than Aaron Sanchez. Michael Booth finished in 3rd with 4 seconds behind Aaron and Rai Taguchi missed the podium 6 seconds. Behind these four paddlers we also seen many surprises. The first and biggest one is Donato Freens 12th place. After beating Boothy in Austria we were expecting him in a battle for podium. Titouan Puyo did not make top 20 finishing in 23rd, this is not the Ti2 we known for all these years.
After all it sure was nice to see all theses names once competing against each other and the results below give us (minus a few surprises) a good indicator where everybody is standing.
Landmark moment in Barcelona: Shrimpy rounding the buoy… where is everybody else? (Photo @eurotour)
Complete list of all 67 finishers
| Place | Name | Time | Country | Category |
| 1 | Shuri ARAKI | 1:24:16.0 | Japan | JUNIOR |
| 2 | Aaron SÁNCHEZ QUETGLAS | 1:24:58.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 3 | Michael BOOTH | 1:25:02.0 | Australia | OPEN |
| 4 | Rai TAGUCHI | 1:25:08.0 | Japan | OPEN |
| 5 | Clément COLMAS | 1:25:24.0 | France | OPEN |
| 6 | Vaic Garioud | 1:25:57.0 | France | JUNIOR |
| 7 | Blue EWER | 1:25:57.0 | UK | OPEN |
| 8 | Fernando PEREZ SERRA | 1:26:34.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 9 | Oliver HOUGHTON | 1:26:41.0 | New Zealand | OPEN |
| 10 | Arthur ARUTKIN | 1:26:47.0 | France | OPEN |
| 11 | Nicolò RICCO VINCENZO | 1:27:00.0 | Italy | OPEN |
| 12 | Donato FREENS | 1:27:23.0 | Netherlands | OPEN |
| 13 | Christian ANDERSEN | 1:27:43.0 | Denmark | OPEN |
| 14 | Ludovic TEULADE | 1:27:48.0 | France | OPEN |
| 15 | Eri TENÓRIO | 1:27:59.0 | Brazil | OPEN |
| 16 | Davide ALPINO | 1:28:03.0 | Italy | OPEN |
| 17 | Antonio MORILLO SANCHEZ | 1:28:09.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 18 | Paolo MARCONI | 1:28:13.0 | Italy | OPEN |
| 19 | Itzel DELGADO NARANJO | 1:28:22.0 | Peru | OPEN |
| 20 | Ethan BRY | 1:28:38.0 | France | OPEN |
| 21 | Filippo MERCURIALI MERCURIALI | 1:29:20.0 | Italy | OPEN |
| 22 | Ricardo ÁVILA HERRERA | 1:29:34.0 | Puerto Rico | OPEN |
| 23 | Titouan PUYO | 1:31:00.0 | France | OPEN |
| 24 | Santino BASALDELLA BASALDELLA | 1:31:04.0 | Argentina | OPEN |
| 25 | Joan GARCÍA VALERO | 1:31:04.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 26 | Tomás VASCONCELOS LACERDA | 1:31:51.0 | Portugal | OPEN |
| 27 | Daniel HASULYO | 1:31:54.0 | Hungary | OPEN |
| 28 | Ivan DE FRUTOS RUIZ | 1:32:27.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 29 | Tommaso PAMPINELLA | 1:32:58.0 | Italy | OPEN |
| 30 | Ivan PUENTE RODRÍGUEZ | 1:33:23.0 | Spain | JUNIOR |
| 31 | Johnny HAGAN | 1:34:01.0 | Australia | OPEN |
| 32 | Marc SIMONCELLI CANUDAS | 1:34:36.0 | Spain | JUNIOR |
| 33 | Sergi NADAL GONZÁLEZ | 1:34:38.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 34 | Eliott BRY | 1:34:49.0 | France | JUNIOR |
| 35 | Salvador MORA MARTINEZ | 1:34:59.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 36 | Pierre-Alain DE BOIS | 1:35:34.0 | France | MASTER |
| 37 | Sergio CANTORAL QUIRANT | 1:35:54.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 38 | Cameron TRIPNEY | 1:36:05.0 | South Africa | OPEN |
| 39 | Linus KARLSOON | 1:37:00.0 | Sweeden | OPEN |
| 40 | João Lourenço PIMENTA VIVEIROS | 1:37:51.0 | Portugal | JUNIOR |
| 41 | Greg LIMELETTE | 1:38:05.0 | France | OPEN |
| 42 | Quique SÁNCHEZ MAS | 1:38:13.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 43 | Louka BRARD | 1:39:05.0 | France | JUNIOR |
| 44 | Jaran RODRIGUEZ JORGE | 1:39:15.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 45 | Thomas DUSART | 1:39:19.0 | France | JUNIOR |
| 46 | Vincent GUILLAUME | 1:39:23.0 | France | KAHUNA |
| 47 | Marc FORASTER FORASTER | 1:40:06.0 | Spain | KAHUNA |
| 48 | Matteo PERNISCO | 1:40:34.0 | Italy | JUNIOR |
| 49 | Fabrizio Jesus RONDINARA RONDINA | 1:40:37.0 | Argentina | JUNIOR |
| 50 | Carlo ARIAS CAMACHO | 1:40:55.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 51 | Albert FOLCH FOLCH | 1:41:23.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 52 | Filippo ALBERTI | 1:44:32.0 | Italy | OPEN |
| 53 | Ramon JIMENEZ REQUENA | 1:44:38.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 54 | Albert SANZ SERRA | 1:44:52.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 55 | Iker BARBARRUBIO VILLASANTE | 1:45:45.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 56 | Tomas LELOVITS | 1:46:30.0 | Finland | MASTER |
| 57 | Paul DOWSON | 1:48:22.0 | UK | GRAN KAHUNA |
| 58 | Cirano GOMES RIBEIROO | 1:50:01.0 | Brazil | OPEN |
| 59 | Riccardo POSTIGLIONE | 1:54:00.0 | Italy | JUNIOR |
| 60 | Jordi LLISTOSELLA BENITO | 1:54:09.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 61 | Ross MCGARRY | 1:55:49.0 | UK | OPEN |
| 62 | Roberto VENTRIGLIA | 2:03:18.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 63 | Raffaele Francesco BARILE | 2:03:18.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 64 | Alejandro VILLANUEVA RUIZ | 2:04:24.0 | Spain | JUNIOR |
| 65 | Serse Pio SABATO | 2:10:45.0 | Italy | JUNIOR |
| 66 | Antonio BELMONTE MARTÍN | 2:14:34.0 | Spain | KAHUNA |
| 67 | Giorgio BALDANTONI | 2:22:16.0 | Italy | GRAN KAHUNA |
Women Longdistance
The women race was a race between Mariecarmen Rivera and Esperanza Barreras. We have been waiting for this match up all season, but were also hoping Duna Gordillo would be in the mix as well. Sadly she was not. Both ladies had a great start and dominated the race right away padding way out front of everybody else. They were paddling neck on neck and we saw some lead changes. Somewhere out in the bumpy ocean Esperanza was able to grow a gap of about 30 meters on Mariecarmen. At this time the finish line was about 1.5K away and Espe had that extra energy Mariecarmen could not catch up to. Eventually Espe ran up the beach with a 42 second lead. Unfortunately we did not see the “Run Up The Beach Finish” we hoped for, but Espe was just a notch stronger.
Leadchanges between Mairecarmen and Espe. At the end Espe had the longer breath. (Foto @eurotour)
The third place with Alba Frey finally arrived with 2 Minutes and 12 seconds delay. As surprise Juliette DuHaime finished the race with her worst result this year so far coming as 9th with over six minutes behind. Also further back than expected was Sey Chelle, she was over 10 minutes back. How ever we have to cut her some slack as she is not focusing on racing like she did before she became a mom.
| Place | Name | Time | Team name | Category |
| 1 | Espe BARRERAS SANJURJO | 1:37:45.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 2 | Mariecarmen RIVERA RIVERA | 1:38:27.0 | Puerto Rico | OPEN |
| 3 | Alba ALONSO FREY | 1:40:39.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 4 | Anais GUYOMARCH | 1:42:24.0 | France | OPEN |
| 5 | Iona RIVET RIVET | 1:43:01.0 | France | OPEN |
| 6 | Sonia CAIMARI POL | 1:43:06.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 7 | Cecilia PAMPINELLA PAMPINELLA | 1:43:57.0 | Italy | JUNIOR |
| 8 | Susak MOLINERO SAMPEDRANO | 1:44:02.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 9 | Juliette C DUHAIME | 1:44:35.0 | Argentina | OPEN |
| 10 | Sey CHELLE | 1:47:58.0 | USA | OPEN |
| 11 | Aida NEPOLA SOBERBIO | 1:48:20.0 | Spain | OPEN |
| 12 | Rika OKUAKI | 1:49:23.0 | Japan | OPEN |
| 13 | Laura QUETGLAS GARCIA | 1:49:27.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 14 | Claudia POSTIGLIONE | 1:49:40.0 | Italy | JUNIOR |
| 15 | Tarryn Candace KING KING | 1:49:44.0 | South Africa | OPEN |
| 16 | Sveva SABATO | 1:51:05.0 | Italy | JUNIOR |
| 17 | Laura NITTI | 1:52:37.0 | Italy | OPEN |
| 18 | Holly PYE PYE | 1:53:43.0 | UK | OPEN |
| 19 | Erica Pia REVIL | 1:54:53.0 | France | OPEN |
| 20 | Lola PELLETIER | 1:55:55.0 | Italy | OPEN |
| 21 | Lisa VENTURELLI | 1:57:00.0 | Italy | JUNIOR |
| 22 | Velia PISANELLI PISANELLI | 2:02:38.0 | Italy | JUNIOR |
| 23 | Amelia MORAL MORAL | 2:07:28.0 | Spain | JUNIOR |
| 24 | Elisabet LLARGUÉS MASACHS | 2:08:54.0 | Spain | MASTER |
| 25 | Claudia LUCHETTA | 2:09:14.0 | Italy | MASTER |
| 26 | Camille HOURON | 2:12:26.0 | France | OPEN |
| 27 | Edith TEULADE | 2:22:16.0 | France | GRAN KAHUNA |
| 28 | Elsa AUGER ROCAFORT | 2:31:11.0 | Spain | JUNIOR |
| 29 | Katrine BERGMANN | 2:33:13.0 | Denmark | JUNIOR |
| 30 | Anna OCCHIOGROSSO | 2:33:48.0 | Italy | KAHUNA |