Tenerife PWA World Cup
After a five year hiatus, the world’s best wave sailors will make a welcome return to El Médano for the Tenerife PWA World Cup, which takes place between the 5th-11th August.
El Médano is situated on the Southeast coast of Tenerife, just minutes away from the airport. Furthermore, its beautiful sandy beaches are blessed with glorious sunshine, regular trade winds and pumping waves year round, which makes this amazing spot a windsurfers haven, for all levels with different spots and conditions available within a close proximity. The forecast has been improving all the time for the week ahead and there should be more exciting battles ahead as the world’s most radical sailors prepare to throw down their biggest and best moves in order to come out on top.
Women’s
Iballa Moreno (Severne / Severne Sails / Maui Ultra Fins) returns to the lineup in Tenerife and will be arguably be the one to beat. Iballa has long been renowned as the best female wave rider in the world, and with el Cabezo usually having a bias towards wave riding, she’ll start as one of the favourites and she last won here in 2018.
Sarah-Quita Offringa (Starboard / NeilPryde / Maui Ultra Fins) will likely be Iballa’s main threat as the reigning world champion. The Aruban made a winning start to her season in Pozo Izquierdo, Gran Canaria, last month and will be looking to continue her winning ways off also winning both the Slalom X and Freestyle in Fuerteventura.
There is a strong women’s fleet turning out in Tenerife with twenty-two girls currently expected to compete over the next seven days. The other obvious main threat for the event title here is Lina Erpenstein (Severne / Severne Sails) with the German currently leading the World Tour after winning in Chile and coming second in Pozo.
Other key names to look out for include the youthful talents of Maria Morales (Goya Windsurfing), Alexia Kiefer Quintana (Duotone Windsurfing) and Sol Degrieck (Severne / Severne Sails), while Pauline Katz (Severne / Severne Sails), Maria Behrens (Duotone Windsurfing / Maui Ultra Fins), Justyna Sniady (North Sails / Maui Ultra Fins) should all be pushing for the top five and beyond.
Meanwhile, both Sarah Hauser (Quatro / Goya Windsurfing) and Maria Andrés (Duotone Windsurfing), who were ranked one and two in the world before Pozo have both opted to compete in Peru.
Men’s
In the men’s, the likes of Philip Köster (Severne / Severne Sails / Black Project Fins), Marcilio Browne (Goya Windsurfing), Morgan Noireaux (JP / NeilPryde / Black Project Fins), Camille Juban (AV Boards / S2Maui), Antoine Martin (Starboard / North Sails) and Robby Swift (JP / NeilPryde) have all opted to hit the waves of Pacasmayo, Peru, instead. So, Julian Salmonn (Bruch Boards / GUNSAILS) who earned his best result yet, second in Gran Canaria, will be hoping to make home advantage count and should be a real contender for the title.
However, he’ll face stiff competition, especially from the likes of Marino Gil (JP / NeilPryde), who won his first event on the World Tour in Gran Canaria and comes into Tenerife leading the World Tour ahead of Victor Fernandez (Duotone Windsurfing), who has an excellent track record in Tenerife and should do well again over the next seven days.
Other key threats will include last year’s vice-world champion, Ricardo Campello, event organiser and local, Dany Bruch (Bruch Boards), Dieter van der Eyken (Severne / Severne Sails), who is also a local, but comes into the event recovering from a foot injury, which was sustained after he finished fourth in Gran Canaria, while if there’s a wave riding bias Moritz Mauch could be a serious danger with his wave riding expertise.
Meanwhile, Marc Paré (Simmer / Simmer Sails) and Jules Denel (Tabou / GA Sails) both return to the fleet having both been injured before Gran Canaria and will be hoping to make a strong return to life on tour.
Of course the likes of Liam Dunkerbeck (Starboard / Severne Sails / Black Project Fins), Adam Warchol (Quatro / Goya Windsurfing), Miguel Chapuis (Flikka / North Sails) will all trying to make their mark, while the Japanese contingent of Takara and Hayata Ishii (RRD / RRD Sails) and Takuma Sugi (Tabou / GA Sails / Black Project Fins) will be hoping to make an impact.
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