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Freestyle Finals
Freestyle Finals
Neom, Saudi Arabia is firmly on the event map now after four consecutive days of excellent conditions, delivering sensational and heavily contested finals in both the men’s and women’s competitions on Saturday 22nd October. MEN’S FINAL: Gianmaria Coccoluto (ITA) / Juan Rodriguez (COL) / Arthur Guillebert (FRA) / Manoel Soares (BRA) WOMEN’S FINAL: Claudia Leon…
NEW STREAM FREESTYLE FINALS
We will switch to this stream once the current big air competition comes to an end that’s currently running on Saturday morning as we move focus back to the main event – the Freestyle Finals at the Qatar Airways GKA Freestyle-Kite World Cup Neom. Upcoming finals: WOMEN’S FINAL: Claudia Leon (ESP) / Rita Arnaus (ESP)…
BIG AIR
Live on day five (Saturday 22nd) and ahead of the Freestyle Finals we ran a special big air event in the strong morning winds. Find the main Freestyle Finals running on this stream: https://youtu.be/eBQVPfKX4tw Follow the livescores, heat ladders and find the embedded livestream on the official event page: https://www.gkakiteworldtour.com/even… — Running as part of…
Tense Times In Taiba For the Freestyle Finals
MENCURRENT RANKING AFTER TWO EVENTS: Manoel Soares (BRA) 2000 Gianmaria Coccoluto (ITA) 1470 Juan Rodriguez (COL) 1470 Carlos Mario (BRA) 1370 Arthur Guillebert (FRA) 1290 As he’s won both previous events this season, the situation is more clean cut for Manoel Soares to take his first world Championship. Essentially, just qualifying for the semi-finals is…
GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle World Cup Brazil
It was another perfect day for the GKA Hydrofoil Freestyle World Cup in Fortaleza, as the wind was pumping at 20-22 knots and the top hydrofoil freestylers in the World were ready to put on a show for the completion of this competition. The criteria remained the same, with the athletes given 15 trick attempts,…
GKA MAURITIUS – DAY 4 – Freestyle Finals
Mikaili Sol and Adeuri Corniel claimed the Mauritius freestyle event win. Watch the highlight video of the women’s and men’s finals. RESULT MEN’S FINAL: 1 Adeuri Corniel (DR) 36.2 points 2 Valentin Rodriguez (COL) 36.19 3 Liam Whaley (ESP) 32.56 4 Nicolas Delmas (FRA) 24.46 RESULT WOMEN’S FINAL: 1 Mikaili Sol (BRA) 33.99 2 Rita Arnaus (ESP) 27.01 3 Bruna Kajiya (BRA) 25.03 4 Claudia Leon (ESP) 18.23
Freestyle finals VKWC Fuerteventura
An early call was made for the rider’s meeting at 9:30am, as the forecast was looking optimistic for the day ahead, and there was a challenge to be able to complete both the freestyle and the big air competitions in only a few hours. As the riders set up their gear, the wind started teasing by continually dropping off and then picking up again. By 12pm, the winds appeared to be consistent enough to run the first heat with Paul Serin (FR/Naish) vs Carlos Mario (BR/Slingshot). The guys were on 14 metre kites, and the wind was blowing an estimated 16 knots. Carlos Mario started strong with a powerful Back Mobe. Serin managed to get a strong start also by throwing down a nice KGB and Back Mobe. Mario did an impressive Heart Attack 5 in the last second which gave him the win and passed him through to the semi finals. As the heat drew to a close, Mario went to high 5 his friend Serin, a demonstration of the good vibes and positive attitude that these guys maintain both on and off the water. Heat number 28 got underway with the conditions improving considerably. Aaron Hadlow (GB/North) opened …