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Pierre Maixent wins 10º Jet Waves Championship
> 09/09/2008
Itajaí (Santa Catarina/Brazil) -
French ace Pierre Maixent cemented his dominance
of 10º Jet Waves Championship in Itajaí. The French
freeride Jet Ski has beaten rival American’s Ross Champion
in the finals hit on the penultimate stop of this season’s
world championship. The contest has held at Brava beach in Itajaí
south Brasil where Maixent did great aerial tricks and he’s
top the expectation doing a “back flip clicker”
kind of trick very known by motocross freestyle.
Amazing aerial tricks have settled this third stage of the world
championship. Italian’s Frederico Bufacchi and Brasilian
Alexandre Lenzi were third and fourth at the course. “I
had tried several times to do this trick before. First I’ve
crashed and second I’ve even broken my head. This was
the first time I could do it in a competition and I got it”,
said the elated Maixent. “I’m really very happy
with this and this is a kind of trick very common at motocross
freestlye”. Ross Champion current top of world ranking
(40 points) did also a great performance trying to overcome
the French flying “black flip superman”, but the
three times freeride world champion did better. “I’ve
ran against the best freeride pilot in the world and one of
my best friend also”, said the American athlete.
At the semi-finals hits, which were fought today, Brazil’s
Alexander Lenzi has shown the local freeriders high technical
level by doing a lot of aerial tricks and surfing great on the
waves, however he was knocked out by Ross Champion and his “black
flip superman”. Lenzi has been also beaten for the third
position by Italian Bruno Bufacchi in a very tough fighting
maneuver by maneuver.
With the standing of the third and penultimate
stop of world season decided, world championship has gone on
at Brava beach to take place immediately the fourth and last
of the season IFWA Championship Challenge. Took part in the
new competition the athletes who were the most graduated of
the international ranking and also were present at the moment
of the fight. Graham Reid (UK), Pierre Maixent (FRA), Arkadius
Schramek GER), Romain Stampers (FRA), Alexander Lenzi (BRA),
Bruno Bufacchi (ITA), Brett Armstrong (SA) e Ross Champion (USA),
will be fighting for the world title of this season.
Jet Waves Cup 2008 - Results
1. Pierre Maixent - France
2. Ross Champion - USA
3. Federico Bufacchi - Italia
4. Alexander Lenzi - Brasil
5. Romain Stampers - France
5. Brett Armstrong - South Africa
5. Bruno Jacob - Brasil
5. Tiago Geitens - Brasil
9. Graham Reid - England
9. Arkadius Schramek - Germany
9. Cristiano Magarão - Brasil
9. Wilson Bonaroski - Brasil
9. Douglas Carvalho - Brasil
9. Octávio Bortoncello - Brasil
9. Leonardo Caldoncelli - Brasil
9. Webert Hipólito - Brasil
17. Antonio Farias - Brasil
17. Alexandre Buneder - Brasil
17. Leandro Vieira - Brasil
17. Everardo Souza - Brasil
World Championship Freeride IFWA Tour
2008
1. Ross Champion - USA
2. Federico Bufacchi - Italia
3. Pierre Maixent - France
4. Romain Stampers - France
Photos
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Ross Champion
A. Lenzi
Cristiano Magarão
Leonardo Caldoncelli
Pierre Maixent
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