Sunday’s session saw the women reach the second semi-final of the single elimination at this final event of the season at Fehmarn in Germany. Hannah Whiteley lies in second position overall on the tour this year and has made it to the final. 13 year-old Mikaili Sol leads the tour and needs just one more…
Air Games Germany
GKA Air Games Germany – Day 2
After a full afternoon of Kiteboarding World Tour ‘Air Games’ action on the first day, Saturday was scheduled for a start to the women’s competition. An initial start was made just after lunch as a storm front brought more wind, but before the end of heat two, the competition was abandoned with heats cancelled, however…
GKA Air Games Germany
Carlos Mario moves a step ahead of current tour leader coming into this final event of the season, Jesse Richman. Jesse must now fight through two heats before meeting Carlos Mario who is already in the double elimination final… and he must then beat him twice! Bring it on over the next few days! Up…
Air Games Germany Finals 2018
Brazilians Mikaili Sol and Carlos Mario are the GKA Kiteboarding World Tour Germany 2018 champions! DELIVERANCE AT DAWN The first order of today’s dawn raid was to take care of the remaining women’s single elimination semi-final between Champion-elect Mikaili Sol and Pauline Valesa; Sol needing just this heat win to be assured of the Championship (on better count-backs than her closest rival Hannah Whiteley), come what may in the final and then the double elimination. It’s a challenge in itself to ride at your best at 6.30am, let alone when your first World Championship counts on it. Managing the mind of a 13 year-old can be a challenge on many levels, but the Swiss ex-snowkiting world champion and youth coach of excellence Fabio Ingrosso said that this morning Mika was already up and came to wake him; a change from the distracted talent he was trying to keep focused in yesterday’s stop / start heats with up and down winds. Mikaili, primed for success Credits due, the strong forecast held true for today and delivered nature’s payback after bizzarrely robbing us of what really should have been the highest wind event of the year at round one in Leucate. Inexplicably, …