Qatar Airways GKA Kite World Tour
GKA Freestyle World Cup Cauipe 2024
12 November – 15 November, 2024

Spot: Cauipe (CET -5)
Discipline: Freestyle
Judging Criteria:  7  trick attempts with 4 best scores to count, by turns. 40 seconds for each turn now.

Day four: Friday, 15 November, 2024

14.20 That’s it from Cauipe. Congratulations to our winners.

13.43 M Final Maxime Chabloz v Val Garat v Arthur Guillebert v Finn Flügel. Chabloz breaks his duck and gets his first win. Guillebert was close in second, wtih Flugel third and Garat fourth.

13.10 W Final Rita Arnaus v Francesca Bagnoli v Kaya Lehmann v Bruna Kajiya. Kajiya wins in Cauipe on home waters. Her second win of the season with another emphatic display. Arnaus gets the second, just ahead of Bagnoli. Lehmann slipped to fourth.

12.25 M SF2 Val Garat v Leo Verrecchia v Finn Flügel v Davi Ribeiro. The pressure told there. Ribeiro opened with with two huge tricks, but crashed out with his remaining moves and finished third. Flügel won the heat, while Garat squeezed into second ahead of Ribeiro. Verrecchia finished fourth.

11.55 M SF1 Karim Mahmoud v Arthur Guillebert v Gianmaria Coccoluto v Maxime Chabloz. Big heat coming up. Massive heat, but the nerves were showing all round with a lot of crashes and missed tricks. Guillebert wins with a heat total of 30.46, Chabloz second, Cocco third and Mahmoud fourth.

11.30 W SF1 Nais Balbinot v Martyna Konkel v Rita Arnaus v Bruna Kajiya. Kajiya takes the win with another dominant performance that gives her a total of 32.63 for her four counting tricks. Her highest score was 9.0 for a Combo, one of the highest of the comp. Arnaus was a strong second and also advances to the final.

10.48 W SF1 Julia Heckhausen v Matilda Roux v Kaya Lehmann v Francesca Bagnoli. Lehmann wins the heat, just out pointing Bagnoli. Bagnoli scored a huge 8.23 for a Heart Attack, but couldn’t back it up. Lehmann goes to the final, along with Bagnoli.

10.00 Good morning. Welcome to finals’ day here in Cauipe. The wind is pumping already. We plan to have the women’s semi-finals up first, followed by the men. Then we’ll have the women’s final and the men’s finals to crown or winners in Cauipe.

Day three: Thursday, 14 November, 2024

15.50 That’s it for today. Join us tomorrow for the finals.

15.23 M R3 H4 Deury Corniel v Davi Ribeiro v Matteo Dorotini v Arthur Guillebert. Ribeiro wins, with Guillebert in second for the last trick of the day.

14.54 M R3 H3 Juan Rodriguez v Erick Anderson v Karim Mahmoud v Finn Flügel. Flugel gets the win after a shaky start. Mahmoud’s start was even shakier, but he also came good at the end and advances too.

14.26 M R3 H2 Antoine Olivier v Leo Verrecchia v Louka Pitot v Maxime Chabloz. Chabloz was on fire, his biggest trick a 9.73 for a Back Mobe 7 that gave him a run away win. Verrecchia squeaks the scond place to advance, while the upset was tdhe exit by Louka Pitot.

13.55 M R3 H1 Hiro Nakana v João Lucas v Val Garat v Gianmaria Coccoluto. Coccoluto is going big and advances. He opened with his trademark Front Blind Mobe 5 for 8.8 and never looked back. Garat was scrapping with Lucas and got the second place with his last trick.

13.34 R4 H2 Angelica Monteiro v Pauline Rehnert v Julia Heckhausen v Martyn Konkel. Konkel wins the head to advance with Heckhausen in second when she squeaked it with her last trick.

13.00 R4 H1 Kristina Kusochkova v Matilda Roux v Maria Morais v Naïs Balbinot. Roux gets the heat win and books her spot in the quarter-final. Balbinot in second also advances.

12.30 M R2 H4 Leo Verrechia v Rafael Montero v Luis Cruz v Juan Rodriguez. Australian’s Leo Verrecchia puts together a big heat to take the win and advance to the quarters. Juan Rodriguez joins him there with a second-place finish.

12.05 M R2 H3 Manoel Soares v Leandro Mendes v Deury Corniel v João Lucas. Lucas goes through in first place, to book his quarter-final spot, along with Corniel.

11.35 M R2 H2 Peyo Cremades v Eliot Panet v Hironobu Nakana v David Ribeiro. Ribeiro wins the heat with a perfect 10 for a Backside 317 Rewind. The 15 year old Brazilian was on fire all heat and goes forward with Nakana.

11.15 M R2 H1 Einar Saad v Linus Erdmann v Antoine Olivier v Erick Anderson. Anderson wins the heat with a big 8.8 for a Heart Attack 7 among his scores. Olivier gets second place.

10.55 W R3 H4 Angelica Monteiro v Maria Morais v Bruna Kajiya. Kajiya takes the win with the heat of the day. Seven tricks and seven landed for 31.57 for the four to count. Kajiya goes straight to the semi-final, with Morais in second and Monteiro in third.

10.00 W R3 H3 Pauline Rehnert v Naïs Balbinot v Rita Arnaus. Arnaus wins the heat with four good scores, with Balbinot second and Rehnert in third.

09.31 W R3 H2 Kristina Kusochkova v Julia Heckhausen v Francesca Bagnoli. We’re going to start this heat from scratch after it was cancelled mid-way through yesterday. Bagnoli wins that heat, with Heckhausen second and Kusochkova.

09.20 Good morning. The wind is already pumping in Cauipe’s lagoon. We’re about to start the action again the women’s action. The plan is to go all the way to the semi-final stage of both men’s and women’s today. Stay tuned.

Day two: Wednesday, 13 November, 2024

17.30 That’s a wrap for today. Join for more action tomorrow.

16.55 W R3 H1 Martyna Konkel v Kaya Lehman v Matilda Roux. Lehmann wins that one a big heat that includes an 8.0 for a world first in comp, Blind Front to Blind.

16.30 M R1 H8 Leandro Mendes v Juan Rodrigues v Arthur Guillebert. Guillebert, the winner in Brazil last year, goes through in first. Juan Rodrigues was just behind him, with Mendes in third.

16.13 M R1 H7Luis Cruz v Manoel Soares v Matteo Dorotini. Dorotini goes through in first with a 27.71 heat total.

15.30 M R1 H4 João Lucas v Rafael Montero v Finn Flügel. Flügel gets the heat with a 31.46 heat total that included two world firsts in competition.  Lucas was closed behind in second, with Montero in third.

15.05 M R1 H4 Deury Corniel v Leo Verrechia v Karim Mahmoud. Mahmoud gets the highest heat score of the day, 32.89, a 9.27 for a Backside to Blind. Deury Corniel returning returning after two years, is second with Verrecchia in third.

14.25 M R1 H3 David Ribeiro v Linus Erdmann v Maxime Chabloz. Chabloz puts down a marker with a big 9.4 for a Blind Mobe 7, the highest score of the day, to get the win. Brazil’s Ribeiro was just behind in second, with an 8.60 for a KGB7, with the returning Erdmann in third.

13.54 M R1 H2 Einar Saad v Hironobu Nakana v Louka Pitot. Pitot goes through with a clean win with a heat total of 26.69. Nakana and Saad fight for survival in R2.

13.25 M R1 H2 Erick Anderson v Eliot Panet v Gianmaria Coccoluto. Coccoluto goes straight to R3 with the biggest trick of the day so far, a 9.10 for his opening Front Blind Mobe 5. Anderson was strong but goest to R2 in second, along with Eliot Panet.

13.02 M R1 H1 Antoine Olivier v Peyo Cremades v Val Garat. An all-French battle here to open the men’s action. Garat  gets a solid win that included a big 7.13 for a Slim 7 to advance to R3. Olivier and Cremades go again in R2.

12.40 W R2 H1 Angelica Monteiro v Leticia Ferreira v Kristina Kuhsochkova. Kusochkova heads to round three with a good win.

12.11 W R1 H2 Pauline Rehnert v Leticia Ferreira. Rehnert takes the heat with a 16.30 total, while Ferreira fights it out in the next round.

11.40 W R1 H1 Angelica Monteiro v Kristina Kusochkova v Martina Konkel. We’re about to get the first heat underway. The Pole Konkel goes through with a good 16.50 for her four counting tricks. Kusochkova and Monteiro go through to battle it out in the round two.

10.35 Now we have a First Possible Start at 10.45. No more calls.

09.00 Good morning. We’re just about to kick-off the second Freestyle event of the season here in Cauipe Lagoon. The breeze is building and we’re expecting to get the men’s and women’s events underway shortly. The skippers’ meeting is about to start. Stay tuned.