Results are in from Japan, where the World Series is holding the second of its four stops this year. The Hayama Pro has attracted an elite little group of the world’s best young (and a few not so young) paddlers, including Kai Lenny, Connor Baxter, Candice Appleby and Fiona Wylde.

This is the first of three big weekends of racing in Japan (perhaps September will become “Japan Month”?), with the Naish Race next weekend, followed by the Japan Cup in two weeks.

Anyway we’ll have a full recap/results/photos later – I’m pushing this post out in the few minutes I have spare this morning, before we begin the next stage of the crazy SUP 11 City Tour here in the Netherlands.

Women’s Long Distance
1st: Candice Appleby (Infinity)
2nd: Fiona Wylde (Starboard)
3rd: Manca Notar (Naish)
4th: Angela Jackson (ONE)
5th: Céline Guesdon (BIC)

Women’s Sprints
1st: Candice Appleby (Infinity)
2nd: Manca Notar (Naish)
3rd: Angie Jackson (ONE)
4th: Fiona Wylde (Starboard)
5th: Araki Honoka (n/a)

Men’s Long Distance
1st: Connor Baxter (Starboard)
2nd: Kai Lenny (Naish)
3rd: Arthur Arutkin (Fanatic)
4th: Mo Freitas (Focus)
5th: Leonard Nika (Starboard)

Men’s Sprints
1st: Kai Lenny (Naish)
2nd: Casper Steinfath (Naish)
3rd: Connor Baxter (Starboard)
4th: Zane Schweitzer (Starboard)
5th: Kody Kerbox (Naish)

UPDATE: Here are the full results including points for the SUP Racer World Rankings.

The Hayama Pro racked up 25.5% on the women’s Race Index and 35.5% on the men’s, which helped it give the World Rankings Leaderboards a nudge.

Sorry that so many names are missing on the men’s sheet – the official results are almost impossible to read, so I couldn’t quite identify names for a lot of the local paddlers.

There were 71 guys on the start line but I can only ID about 16 names. If organisers would like to update their results with a legible version (or if the World Series would care to update their own rankings table), that would be nice. It’s a shame that all the local guys don’t get credit on the results sheet…

WOMEN’S OVERALL

Overall	Name	Distance	Sprints	World Ranking Points
1	Candice Appleby	1	1	25.50
2	Manca Notar	3	2	19.13
3	Fiona Wylde	2	4	15.30
4	Angela Jackson	4	3	12.75
5	Celine Guesdon	5	7	10.84
6	Yokoyama Takayo	6	8	8.93
7	Horikoshi Yuka	8	6	7.65
8	Iseda Megumi	7	10	6.38
9	Araki Honoka	13	5	5.74
10	Sakai Natsuki	9	13	5.10
11	Urayama Megumi	13	9	4.59
12	Ishiyama Anna	10	13	4.08
13	Katsumi Hiroko	1	13	3.83
14	Nadia Zitouni	1	13	3.57
15	Tao Miku	13	11	3.32

MEN’S OVERALL

Overall	Name	Distance	Sprints	World Ranking Points
1	Kai Lenny	2	1	35.50
2	Connor Baxter	1	3	26.63
3	Casper Steinfath	6	2	21.30
4	Arthur Arutkin	3	6	17.75
5	Leonard Nika	5	7	15.09
6	Zane Schweitzer	9	4	12.43
7	Mo Freitas	4	9	10.65
8	Kody Kerbox	8	5	8.88
9	Kenny Kaneko	7	10	7.99
10	Jake Jensen	12	8	7.10
11	Paul Jackson	10	11	6.39
12	Dylan Frick	11	11	5.68
13	Noa Ginella	14	12	5.33
14	Tomoyasu Murabayashi	13	13	4.97
15	...	17	13	4.62
16	Eric Terrien	15	17	4.26
17	...	21	17	3.91
18	Steve "Wild Man" Walker	22	17	3.55