World cup no. 3 – Thun

The last World cup was situated in Thun ( CH ) , where the World championship at 2009 should be. Thun is one of the most beautiful city where I ever was, there are many channels and in one of them after the dam gates was the play spot. We came there at Monday morning , slept little and wait until Simon the main organisator build the wave. At the first day of surfing , I didn’t feel the wave and I wasn’t glad with my effort , I didn't surf wave long time. Nina didn’t paddle because she was sick and eating the antibiotics. Next days it starts to work better for me. The eddy was so full whole day and the best chance to train was during the night or early morning. The competition started at Thursday with all categories except men category. Nina couldn’t train much before , but still when I saw her at the trainings she was doing well , on the qualification she couldn’t set up on the wave and flush. She came on the place 17.

Qualification results:

K1 Junior Women

1.
Newman Nouria
FRA
2. Häberli Leonie
SUI
3. Hornhardt Sandrina
GER

K1 Junior Men


1.
Devred Sebastien
FRA
2. Schwarz Samuel
SUI
3. Jackson Dane
USA

OC1

1.
Weir James
GBR
2. Hüther Toby
GER
3. Blanchard Jeremy
AUS

K1 Women


1.
Gordon Ruth
CAN
2. Jarvie Fiona
GBR
3. Jackson Emily
USA

C1 Men

1.
Bainbridge Dave
GBR
2. Jackson Dane
USA
3. Pyke Lee
GBR

Next day was qualification of men category and some additional competitions like big air and king of the wave.

Top 3. Man :

1st Peter Csonka SVK

2nd Steven Wright USA

3rd Eric Jackson USA

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pictures from Michael Neumann ( thanks a lot )

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Nina was almost queen of the wave

Next day was the quarterfinals and semifinals for each category . I am thinking that the semis are sometimes more harder as the finals and every paddler is trying as hard as possible. The results from this days should be on the http://www.riverjam.ch/

The finals was at Sunday. It was a long waiting with lot of stress.

Results :

C1 >>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleC1.pdf

K1JM>>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleK1JM.pdf

K1JW>>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleK1JW.pdf

K1W>>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleK1W.pdf

K1M>>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleK1M.pdf

I placed on the 3rd place after Nick Troutman and Steven Wright , what was awesome for me because at the end I am winner of the whole World cup!!!

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picture from Michael Neumann

The overall World Cup Results for K1 Men were:

Peter Csonka- Slovakia- Project
Nick Troutman- Canada- All-Star
Dustin Urban- USA- All-Star

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In the World Cup overall for K1W it was:

Emily Jackson- USA- Star
Ruth Gordon- Canada- Star
Fiona Jarvie- Great Britain, Star

In the overall Junior World Cup results:

Sebastian – France- Gui Gui kayak
Jason Craig- USA- Star
Michael Palmer- USA, All-Star

In the OC1 Class

Jez Blanchard

In the C1 Class

1st Stepan Fiedler ( CZE )


The World cup is over and we are looking forward to Adidas Sickline extreme race check out the page www.adidas-sickline.com

See you there.

Peter & Nina