Realizar
Matosinhos World Cup - Portugal
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July 2004
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Portugal,
Matosinhos, Thursday 8th August 2004
The wind plaid with our patience till the end of the week … That is definitely an unusual situation for a summer in Portugal and especially in Matosinhos ! We checked numerous weather forecasts on Saturday and all of them predicted a depression with strong wind from 7am to 10am in the morning … That is why the race director programmed the skippers meeting at 5.30am ! A “premiere” in the KPWT history …
It
was still dark and night when we arrived on the beach. A strange and,
in a way, exciting atmosphere ! With only 3 hours of wind planned ,
the promoter decided to change the format of the men competition in
order to have enough time to
complete a round. On the women side, the situation was different ;
we only had two heats to run to complete the winner bracket.
We
launched the first heat at 7am. The wind was
blowing hard and it was pouring outside … Not the weather you
expect in Portugal on the 8th of August. Nevertheless we
made it and we were all very proud to go through this hurricane …
as the wind radically changed direction at 10am and suddenly dropped
down in 5 minutes !
The Frenchies Jaujou, Deleau, Fernandez, De la Villemarque, Auriol, Coste, Le Bourgocq and Mariani made their way to the second round quite easily as well as the Portugese Rui Pedro, Martins and Lufinha. The Champion of Morocco Soufiane Hamaini, “sun of the desert” passed a few good jumps and also went through to the heat n°4. In the final, the local Rui Pedro Meira really stood out and won with talent in front of the two “kids” coming up : Mallory De La Villemarque and Adrien Jaujou.
1.
Rui Pedro Meira (POR) 5 500$
2.
Mallory De La Villemarque (SPA) 3 600$
3. Adrien Jaujou (FRA) 3 000$
On the women side, we managed to run the double elimination. Gisela Pulido, the winner of the Jim Beam Kiteboard World Cup in Turkey, recovered from her bad result in the winner bracket and got into the final in front of Fabienne D’Ortoli. The expertise of Fabienne, 2001 & 2002 KPWT World Champion made the difference.
1.
Fabienne D’Ortoli (FRA) 3 000$
2.
Gisela Pulido (SPA) 2
000$
3. Hélène Barrière (FRA) 1 000$
1. Pierre Romain ( FR)
1. Helene Barriere (FR)
Despite
difficult conditions, the Realizar Matosinhos World Cup 2004 has
been a success. Thanks to the KPWT many Portugese discovered
kiteboard and we really want to come back next year.
A
special thank to our partner and local organizer Realizar who
trusted our sport and did a great job in Matosinhos. Congratulations
to the riders who proved that they can perform and astonished us in
every type of conditions.
Many
Thanks to our sponsors :
Camara
Municipal de Matosinhos, Worten, Porto & Norte de Portugal,
Jornal de Noticias
And
to our official suppliers :
Jornal
de Noticias, Bogani, Super Bock, Vitalis, Frutea, Kispo, Arnette
And
to our World Tour partners : Gaastra, Julbo, Takoon, Hawaiisurf
For
further information, please contact :
KPWT
:
GPF LLC
Tel
: 00 33 (0) 6 12 71 38 15
Fax
: 00 33 (0) 1 46 44 46
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