Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt
After a slow start to the opening day of competition at the 2025 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt, the wind eventually kicked in around 3pm local time, which allowed the first two Foil Slalom eliminations to be completed in light 7-14 knot winds. Last year’s event champion, Johan Søe (PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils) claimed the opening bullet before current World Tour leader, Matteo Iachino (Starboard / Severne Sails) hit back by winning Elimination 2.
Men’s
Foil Slalom
Johan Søe made the perfect start to his event title defence as the Dane rattled off a confident first bullet to take the early event lead. Last year Søe didn’t finish outside the top three and after the opening two eliminations the same is true so far this year too, with the 22-year-old claiming second place in Elimination 2 to hold a four point lead at the end of the opening day.
Current World Tour leader, Matteo Iachino, is Søe’s closest rival after the opening two eliminations after the Italian bounced back from a sixth place in the opener with a bullet in the next. Søe tried to push Iachino all the way in the latter stages of the Winners’ Final, but the 36-year-old held strong to get himself firmly up and running.
Just 0.3 of a point then separates Iachino from Pierre Mortefon (FMX Racing / NeilPryde) and Fabian Wolf (Starboard / Severne Sails), who enjoyed a great first day, with the two sailors tied on seven points after both recording a third and fourth.
Maciek Rutkowski (JP / NeilPryde) currently occupies fifth place. The Pole kicked things off with a solid second place in the opener before having to settle for eighth in the next due to being under gunned.
Meanwhile, Amado Vrieswijk (Future Fly / Point-7 / Z Foils) made a consistent start with back-to-back fifth places and he’s actually equal on ten points with Rutkowski, but behind on countback.
The top ten is currently completed by William Huppert (PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils) - 7th - Daniele Benedetti (Duotone Windsurfing) - 8th - Bruno Martin (I-99 / S2Maui) - 9th - and Alexis Mathis (Tabou / GA Sails) - 10th. Just three points then separate 10th-14th with things remaining extremely close after the opening couple of races.
The forecast on paper for Sunday looks slightly lighter than today, but the local Danish forecast still has 12 knots of wind on the forecast, so there is definitely potential for more racing tomorrow. The Foil Slalom will have their skippers’ meeting at 10am (GMT+2) with the racing commencing from 11am onwards - depending on the conditions. It seems unlikely that Sunday will be suitable for Freestyle, but just in case they will be given an announcement at 12pm, while the Wave fleet have been given a Lay Day.
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Current Ranking 2025 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt - Men’s Foil Slalom
*After 2 Eliminations
1st Johan Søe (DEN | PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils)
2nd Matteo Iachino (ITA | Starboard / Severne Sails)
3rd Pierre Mortefon (FRA | FMX Racing / NeilPryde)
4th Fabian Wolf (GER | Starboard / Severne Sails)
5th Maciek Rutkowski (POL | JP / NeilPryde)
6th Amado Vrieswijk (NB | Future Fly / Point-7 / Z Foils)
7th William Huppert (FRA | PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils)
8th Daniele Benedetti (ITA | Duotone Windsurfing)
9th Bruno Martini (ITA | I-99 / S2Maui)
10th Alexis Mathis (FRA | Tabou / GA Sails)