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Contest GKA Kite World Tour Kitesurfing Mauritius

GKA Kite-Surf World Tour Finals 2017 – Mauritius

The 8 qualifiers from the trials made up the 24 riders in the men’s main event. Catch up on rounds one and two in this video, as well as round one in the women’s contest, with 14 riders, amongst them the best female wave riding talent in the world. https://www.global-kitesports.org/ https://www.facebook.com/GlobalKitesportsAssociationGKA/ https://www.instagram.com/globalkitesports/ Source: GKA KITE…

Mauritius

Moona Defeats a Ninja at One Eye! GKA Kite-Surf World Tour Finals

Whyte retains the top spot and takes the title in Women’s Double-Elims Gisela Pulido in heat 14B / Photo: @Ydwer Today marked the final day of the main event here at the GKA Mauritius season finals as the women’s double-eliminations, which had begun yesterday in between the final rounds of the men’s comp, wrapped up. As this was a double elimination, once the competition reached the final round the winner of each two-rider heat would progress to the next one, so there would be a 20 minute break in between heats during which contestants could catch a quick breather before taking on their next opponent. Jalou gunning it from the off and progressing to the semi-finals / Photo: @Ydwer With clean waves to be had the riders out on nine metre kites it was Jalou Langeree up first in heat 14A against Larissa Fadeeva, a rider from Mauritius. Larissa’s a local but her inside knowledge of the wave wasn’t enough to overcome Jalou’s technical waveriding prowess and Jalou won comfortably and progressed straight into the next round. Gisela pulling in… / Photo: @Ydwer Gisela Pulido then beat Marie Gautron in heat 14B (the final heat of the round) and she …

Keahi de Aboitiz Mauritius

AIRton Clinches The Championship While KEAHI is King at One Eye

High drama as Airton takes the title after a six-year wait while Keahi rules the Eye. The GKA Mauritius finalists / Photo: @Ydwer So, where to begin after a dramatic end to the men’s division at the GKA Mauritius finals and the crowning of a new world champion today in Le Morne? 

Today began with the first heat of the quarter-finals and the stakes were high. The race for the championship title was down only to Matchu Lopes and Airton Cozzolino but Paulino Pereira would have to beat Brazilian charger Sebastian Ribeiro and then contend with Keahi de Aboitiz to still be holding his third place ranking by the end of the day. First up, Keahi took on Mauritian young gun Willow-River Tonkin-Shakes in heat 25. Willow has impressed everyone at this event having earned the Best Rookie award due to his string of strong performances and serial barrel-hunting but Keahi is about as tough an opponent as you can get and Willow couldn’t deal with his sheer mastery of One Eye. Willow-River Tonkin wins Best Rookie award / Photo: @Ydwer Ever the stoke-merchant, Willow wasn’t phased in the slightest and why should he be? For an 18 year-old guy …

Keahi de Aboitiz Mauritius

AIRton Clinches The Championship While KEAHI is King at One Eye

High drama as Airton takes the title after a six-year wait while Keahi rules the Eye. The GKA Mauritius finalists / Photo: @Ydwer So, where to begin after a dramatic end to the men’s division at the GKA Mauritius finals and the crowning of a new world champion today in Le Morne? 

Today began with the first heat of the quarter-finals and the stakes were high. The race for the championship title was down only to Matchu Lopes and Airton Cozzolino but Paulino Pereira would have to beat Brazilian charger Sebastian Ribeiro and then contend with Keahi de Aboitiz to still be holding his third place ranking by the end of the day. First up, Keahi took on Mauritian young gun Willow-River Tonkin-Shakes in heat 25. Willow has impressed everyone at this event having earned the Best Rookie award due to his string of strong performances and serial barrel-hunting but Keahi is about as tough an opponent as you can get and Willow couldn’t deal with his sheer mastery of One Eye. Willow-River Tonkin wins Best Rookie award / Photo: @Ydwer Ever the stoke-merchant, Willow wasn’t phased in the slightest and why should he be? For an 18 year-old guy …

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