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> 5th stage IFWA Freeride World Championship
Tour - Results
10/25/2007
To 5th Stage of IFWA Freeride World
Championship Tour happened of 19 to October 21, 2007 in California
/ USA. Check the results!
The world championship of jet-ski in waves, IFWA World Championship
2007 finished with a gold key, sun and high waves about 3 meters,
the pilots provided a show of radical maneuvers during to 5th
and last stage, in the city of Pismo, California during Hydro
Turf - Surf Slam.
In the category stand-up, the winner was a local
pilot, the north American Taylor Curts, followed by French Pierre
Maixent and of German Marc Sikerling.
Already in the sit-down, Jimmy Visser that had
already won the 4 previous stages, confirmed his favoritism
also winning that last stage, followed by the American Eddie
Betancourt and the Portuguese Luís Silva.
The Brazilians Ivo Sehn and André Martins
had theirs performances harmed in function of the rented equipments,
that presented problems and left the pilots out of the competition.
Another Brazilian pilot, Leandro Vieira, in
spite of not having participated in the stage, finished the
tour in for 3a. placement in the sit-down.
The tour 2008 begins in Europe in April, following
the tradition Portugal, Spain and France, proceeds in September
in Brazil, the Jet Waves that is Brazilian stage will complete
10 years, and finishes again in October in United States. Tests
extras are foreseen during the year in Bali and Morocco.
The tour finished like this:
Category Stand-up
1 Maixent Pierre France 2 Champion Ross USA
3 Beurnier Gil France 4 Mejean Aurelien France 5 Sehn Ivo Brazil
Category Sit-down:
1 Visser Jimmy S. Africa 2 Maixent Pierre France
3 Vieira Leandro Brazil 4 Bejeiro Cristobal Spain 5 Arrizabalaga
Alain Spain
Source: Marcelo Brandão
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