SUNDAY UPDATE:

In brief: Connor Baxter has just won the Beach Race to make it a clean sweep of the weekend and claim the 2017 Hossegor Paddle Games overall title ahead of his key EuroTour rivals and fellow world-beaters Michael Booth and Titouan Puyo.

In small, fun waves that were perfect for racing, Boothy was second just ahead of an impressive Trevor Tunnington, while Titou was right behind in fourth. Leo Nika was fifth ahead of Aussie Toby Cracknell.

Overall:
1st: Connor Baxter
2nd: Michael Booth
3rd: Titouan Puyo
4th: Trevor Tunnington
5th: Bruno Hasulyo

In the women’s, Frenchwoman Olivia Piana showed her true potential to take out the beach race ahead of yesterday’s winner Sonni Honscheid. But Olivia fell painfully short of the overall title, losing to Sonni by just 3 seconds on the tie-breaker time countback.

Overall:
1st: Sonni Honscheid
2nd: Olivia Piana
3rd: Candice Appleby
4th: Seychelle Hattingh
5th: Amandine Chazot

Full results below the pics (more photos on the EuroTour Facebook page).

Footnote: A lot of peopled have been asking “Where was today’s live stream?!” Well, after the fun and festivities of the boat ride on Saturday, SUP Racer unfortunately spent most of Sunday in bed (it’s a minor miracle we could even do Saturday’s live stream). That’s what you get for overdosing on foie gras and rillettes at the Friday night race briefing (never again…).

Bu we’ll be back on board for next weekend’s big showdown in Thonon (the main event is at 12:30pm French time on Saturday). After Thonon, we’ll also be live streaming the following three events on the Tour: Bilbao, San Sebastian and Narbonne. Stay tuned, it’s going to be a long, hot summer of racing!

 

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Men’s Elite – Overall Results

Race Index: 44.5%
Primary overall tie-breaker: highest individual result
Secondary overall tie-breaker: combined time

#	Athlete	Distance	Beach Race	Overall	Division	Points
1	Connor Baxter	1	1	2	Elite	44.50
2	Michael Booth	3	2	5	Elite	33.38
3	Titouan Puyo	2	4	6	Elite	26.70
4	Trevor Tunnington	5	3	8	Elite	22.25
5	Bruno Hasulyo	4	7	11	Elite	18.91
6	Giorgio Gomez	6	9	15	Elite	15.58
7	Toby Cracknell	9	6	15	Elite	13.35
8	Leonard Nika	14	5	19	Elite	11.13
9	Tom Auber	8	11	19	Junior	10.01
10	Slater Trout	7	14	21	Elite	8.90
11	Paolo Marconi	11	13	24	Elite	8.01
12	Mo Freitas	12	12	24	Elite	7.12
13	Arthur Arutkin	19	8	27	Elite	6.68
14	Gabriel Bachelet	13	15	28	Elite	6.23
15	Martino Rogai	15	18	33	Elite	5.79
16	Itzel Delgado	16	19	35	Elite	5.34
17	Davide Ionico	18	17	35	Elite	4.90
18	Ludovic Teulade	20	16	36	Elite	4.45
19	Boris Jinvresse	10	29	39	Elite	4.01
20	Giordano Capparella	17	24	41	Elite	3.56
21	Vinnicius Martins	22	22	44	Elite	3.34
22	Vincent Verhoeven	24	23	47	Elite	3.12
23	Dylan Frick	31	20	51	Elite	2.89
24	Jeremy Teulade	21	30	51	Elite	2.67
25	Jurgi Zulaika	23	28	51	Elite	2.45
26	Matthieu Chauvel	25	27	52	Elite	2.31
27	Alexandre Bicrel	28	25	53	Junior	2.18
28	Aaron Rowe	37	21	58	Elite	2.05
29	James van Drunen	27	31	58	Junior	1.91
30	Lois Chardebas	35	26	61	Junior	1.78
31	Martin Vitry*	52	10	62	Junior	1.69
32	Pau Ybarra Palmer	26	37	63	Elite	1.60
33	Peter Kosinski	29	36	65	Elite	1.51
34	Yorgos Ferbus	30	35	65	Elite	1.42
35	Rafael Sirvent Salazar	34	33	67	Junior	1.34
36	Ricardo Haverschmidt	39	32	71	Elite	1.25
37	Kjell de Bruyn	33	41	74	Elite	1.16
38	Paul Ganse	41	34	75	Elite	1.07
39	Enrique Hurtado Serra	36	40	76	Junior	0.98
40	Chris Couve	32	47	79	Elite	0.89
41	Aizpuru Oihan	42	38	80	Junior	0.85
42	Jean Letourneur	40	43	83	Junior	0.80
43	Steven Bredow	38	46	84	Elite	0.76
44	Axel Vanbaelinghem	46	39	85	Junior	0.71
45	Leonardo Toso	43	44	87	Elite	0.67
46	Belar Diaz	44	45	89	Elite	0.62
47	Aure Medina Amorrortu	50	42	92	Elite	0.58
48	Manuel Simoncelli	45	48	93	Elite	0.53
49	Richard Proost	47	50	97	Elite	0.49
50	Dave Boehne	48	49	97	Elite	0.45
51	Tomas Lelovits	51	51	102	Elite	0.00

Note: Promising young Frenchman Martin Vitry was a DNF in the distance race and was therefore given last-place points

 

Women’s Elite – Overall Results

Race Index: 40.0%
Primary overall tie-breaker: highest individual result
Secondary overall tie-breaker: combined time

#	Athlete	Distance	Beach Race	Overall	Division	Points
1	Sonni Honscheid	1	2	3	Elite	40.00
2	Olivia Piana	2	1	3	Elite	30.00
3	Candice Appleby	3	3	6	Elite	24.00
4	Seychelle Hattingh	5	4	9	Elite	20.00
5	Amandine Chazot	4	6	10	Elite	17.00
6	Melanie Lafenetre	9	5	14	Junior	14.00
7	Susak Molinero	6	8	14	Elite	12.00
8	Penelope Strickland	7	7	14	Elite	10.00
9	Petronella van Malsen	8	11	19	Elite	9.00
10	Cyara Palenzuela	12	9	21	Junior	8.00
11	Genna Flinkman	10	13	23	Elite	7.20
12	Ines Blatge	13	10	23	Junior	6.40
13	Susanne Lier	11	12	23	Elite	6.00
14	Beatrez Pinal Gonzalez	14	14	28	Elite	5.60
15	Laura Quetglas*	15	15	30	Elite	5.20

Note: ISA bronze medalist Laura Quetglas unfortunately retired hurt in the distance race and didn’t recover to take part in the beach race

 

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SATURDAY UPDATE

Déjà vu in week 4 of The Euro Tour, with the German powerhouse Sonni Hönscheid charging to victory on day 1 of the Hossegor Paddle Games ahead of her impressive Starboard team mate Olivia Piana and the fast-finishing duo of Candice Appleby and Amandine Chazot (⬅️ the new dark horse of Europe?). Just a little further back it was Seychelle Hattingh reeling in and overtaking the highly under-rated Susak Molinero in a tight battle for 6th.

In the men’s, Connor Baxter out-sprinted Titouan Puyo in an intense battle right to the line, which took place after more than 10km of hot and very humid paddling that resembled a mini Carolina Cup in terms of both conditions and the incredible depth of talent on the start line (~45% on the Race Index).

Michael Booth was right behind in 3rd followed closely by the determined duo of Bruno Hasulyo and Trevor Tunnington (who worked hard and closed the gap on the lead trio in the final 2kms). Infinity Speed Freaks Giorgio Gomez (6th) and Slater Trout (7th) are also looking fit and firing as we head back into the iconic waves of Hossegor for tomorrow’s decider: The Beach Race.

Merci beaucoup to the Hossegor Surf Club for not only hosting this event but getting us up close to the action despite some very tricky maritime navigation conditions!

Oh and it looks like we might have a nice little swell for tomorrow’s​ race, so tune in from 10am Sunday French time to watch the Facebook live stream with TotalSUP 🇫🇷🌊☀️

(You can watch a full replay of today’s live stream on SUP Racer’s Facebook page)

…and finally a huge thank you to camera wizard Georgia Schofield from Starboard Stand Up Paddle Surfing for always getting the shots!

 

Men’s Long Distance Results

#	Name	Time	Division
1	Connor Baxter	0:58:35	-
2	Titouan Puyo	0:58:42	-
3	Michael Booth	0:58:54	-
4	Bruno Hasulyo	0:58:55	-
5	Trevor Tunnington	0:58:59	-
6	Giorgio Gomez	1:00:42	-
7	Slater Trout	1:01:17	-
8	Tom Auber	1:01:17	Juniors
9	Toby Cracknell	1:01:23	-
10	Boris Jinvresse	1:01:24	-
11	Paolo Marconi	1:01:33	-
12	Mo Freitas	1:01:46	-
13	Gabriel Bachelet	1:01:52	-
14	Leonard Nika	1:02:27	-
15	Martino Rogai	1:02:29	-
16	Itzel Delgado	1:02:32	-
17	Giordano Caparella	1:02:33	-
18	Davide Ionico	1:02:35	-
19	Arthur Arutkin	1:02:36	-
20	Ludovic Teulade	1:02:39	-
21	Jeremy Teulade	1:03:25	-
22	Vinnicius Martins	1:03:33	-
23	Jurgi Zulaika	1:03:35	-
24	Aure Medina Amorrortu	1:03:35	Grand Master
25	Vincent Verhoeven	1:03:36	-
26	Matthieu Chauvel	1:03:42	-
27	Pau Ybarra Palmer	1:03:46	-
28	James Van Drunen	1:04:04	Juniors
29	Alexandre Bicrel	1:04:13	Juniors
30	Peter Kosinski	1:04:31	-
31	Yorgos Ferbus	1:04:33	-
32	Yanis Maire	1:04:39	-
33	Dylan Frick	1:04:47	-
34	Chris Couve	1:04:48	-
35	Rafael Sirvent Salazar	1:04:55	Juniors
36	Enrique Hurtado Serra	1:04:58	Juniors
37	Lois Chardebas	1:04:58	Juniors
38	Aaron Rowe	1:05:24	-
39	Steven Bredow	1:05:33	-
40	Ricardo Haverschmidt	1:05:37	-
41	Jean Letourneur	1:05:47	Juniors
42	Paul Ganse	1:05:54	-
43	Aizpuru Oihan	1:06:08	Juniors
44	Leonardo Toso	1:06:32	-
45	Jules Langlois	1:06:33	Cadets
46	Tomas Sanchez Vecino	1:06:38	-
47	Belar Diaz	1:06:52	Master
48	Manuel Simoncelli Dominguez	1:06:56	Kahunas
49	Axel Vanbaelinghem	1:07:06	Cadets
50	Richard Proost	1:07:36	Grand Master
51	David Boehne	1:07:41	Grand Master
52	Lulu Langlois	1:08:35	Grand Kahunas
53	Landa Txema	1:08:38	Grand Master
54	Loris Minvielle	1:08:54	Master
55	Aaron Sanchez Quetglas	1:08:56	Under 15
56	Daniel Parres Puerto	1:09:41	Kahunas
57	Sergi Nadal Gonzalez	1:10:52	Cadets
58	Baptiste Nava	1:10:54	-
59	Aritz Tena Bericiarta	1:11:35	-
60	Tomas Lelovits	1:12:34	Master
61	Manuel Hoyuela Rojas	1:13:06	Under 15
62	Alain Teurquetil	1:13:29	Grand Kahunas
63	Antuñano Unai	1:14:03	-
64	Tim Rowe	1:14:15	Grand Kahunas
65	Thomas Rossard	1:14:38	Grand Master
66	Chris Bates	1:15:52	Grand Master
67	Alexandre Agudo	1:16:54	-
68	Pierre Guerre Berthelot	1:17:44	Kahunas
69	Christian Emil Rode	1:17:58	Grand Master
70	Antony Locteau	1:18:54	Grand Master
71	Derek O Neill	1:19:27	Grand Kahunas
72	Eizagirre Aitor	1:20:50	-
73	Steve Trott	1:22:22	Kahunas
74	Alvaro Hermida	1:23:05	Cadets
75	Iñigo Gandara	1:23:19	Under 15
76	Asier Aristizabal Cruz	1:23:39	Cadets
77	Mathieu Sarda	1:25:00	-
78	Luis Blazquez	1:25:21	Grand Kahunas
79	Pablo Fernandez Quesada	1:26:04	Under 15
80	Damien Guilhot	1:27:33	Master
81	Matteo Angiolini	1:35:04	Under 15
82	Mystery Paddler No. 106	1:49:37	-

Women’s Long Distance Results

incoming
 

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