French domination in the Euro Champs

The French surfski team dominated in the inaugural European Ocean Racing Championship. Angie Mouden (Fra) won the women’s race and Laousse Yannick (Fra) won the men’s race. Five of the top 10 were french paddlers in the men’s race.

The sprint paddler Max Hoff (Ger) started really hard and was the first paddler to pass the bouy and turn downwind. Joep van Bakel (Hol) was chasing him and overtook him about half way in the race. For a long time Joep seemed to be the winner but the French and Spanish paddlers choose a line closer to the beach. When the paddlers got closer to the finish it became obvious for the spectators that Laousse Yannick, Benoit Le Roux (Fra), Daniel Viloria (Spa) and Esteban Ojeda Medina (Spa) was in front of Joep.

In the women’s race Angie Mouden (Fra) went straight to the lead and she kept it til the finish. Sara Rafael (Por) finished 2nd and Chloe Bunnett (GB) finished 3rd.

(Photo: Okrea Kayaks)

Results European Ocean Racing 2014

Seems like they have some technical problems with the distribution of the results in Portugal. No official results for the women so far and only 56 from the men’s race . I will update when more results are official.

Position	Name	Country	Time
1	Laousse Yannick	France	01:38:54
2	Benoit Le Roux	France	01:39:42
3	Daniel Viloria	Spain	01:40:06
4	Esteban Ojeda	Spain	01:40:14
5	Joep Bakel	Netherlands	01:41:13
6	Walter Sánchez	Spain	01:41:44
7	Pelizza Noé	France	01:42:03
8	Nowakowski Florent	France	01:42:41
9	David Fernandes	Portugal	01:42:49
10	Henot Valentin	France	01:42:54
11	Agustin Blanco		01:43:10
12	Szlachta David		01:43:22
13	Guilherme Cabral		01:43:36
14	Mickael Fargier		01:43:38
15	Federico Vega		01:43:45
16	Victor Doux		01:43:50
17	Antoine Bihannic		01:44:08
18	Luiz Ventura		01:44:18
19	Mark Ressel		01:44:31
20	Michael Dobler		01:44:49
21	Emiel Beukenkamp		01:45:05
22	Bruno Rafael		01:45:06
23	Stephane Roudaut		01:45:09
24	Alvaro Fiuza		01:45:15
25	Robin Koenders		01:45:18
26	Luis Blanco		01:45:20
27	Alberto Blanco		01:45:26
28	Albert Bertran		01:45:35
29	Antonio Giron		01:45:40
30	Vincent Naert		01:45:54
31	Manuel Fernandez		01:46:28
32	Orlando Silva		01:46:32
33	Jonathan Lopez		01:46:42
34	Paul Eyquem		01:46:47
35	Tommy Karls		01:47:00
36	Hugo Lima		01:47:15
37	Mikel Lauzirika		01:47:23
38	Lebeau Roland		01:47:31
39	Antonio Garcia		01:47:46
40	Pablo Pablo		01:47:47
41	Ekaitz Saies		01:47:49
42	Max Hoff		01:48:18
43	João Silva		01:48:25
44	Paul Rosenquist		01:48:29
45	Lander Rodriguez		01:48:47
46	Fábio Cameira		01:48:48
47	Fifils Franck		01:49:06
48	Martin Nordstrand		01:49:13
49	Jordi Ribas		01:49:16
50	Ola Ström		01:49:33
51	Carlos Cruz		01:49:45
52	Steven Dierckx		01:49:51
53	Carlos Marques		01:49:55
54	Gonçalo Tomás		01:49:58
55	Guillermo Calleja		01:50:08
56	Carlos Garcia medina		01:50:32