Kauli Seadi at Maui – Pic: NoveNove/Fish Bowl Diaries
Today is the start of the NoveNove Maui Aloha Classic. 48 top-class windsurfers are waiting to fight for the top places on the podium and the prestigious title. This year the Aloha Classic is a cooperation between the American Windsurfing Tour (AWT) and the Professional Windsurfers Association (PWA) and will see only one pro event. This means, this event will decide upon the Champion titles as well. What is quite interesting is, that instead of a 32 men fleet (normally only 32 men are allowed to compete in PWA events), 48 men will compete, 24 riders allocated from the PWA and 24 riders allocated from the AWT. The 32 men fleet rule was introduced in 2013 and will now see an exception.
Top 2 advance to AWT Pro
HEAT 1Diony GuadagninoHarley StonePatrick BergeronDani MartiBrian TalmaRick MarkhamScott Wuertz
HEAT 2Rudy CastorinaJay LeePascal HardyMorgan HendersonGuido HagemanPaolo Bacchini
HEAT 3Nat GillDiego FemeniasTakafumi NoguchiAndrea della RosaItoh DaikiFelipe Wedeles
HEAT 4Casey RehrerSean AikenMashiro YoshatakeMax SchettewiNicola TerenziHiroshi Hashimoto
AWT PRO
Russ FaurotLaurent GuilleminBoujmaa GuilloulCamille JubanKai KatchadourianKai LennyFerdinando LoffredaRobby NaishMorgan NoireauxKevin PritchardBernd RoedigerJake SchettewiKauli SeadiLevi SiverJosh StoneKeith Teboul
8 places left for riders coming from the trials
PWA Entries
Marcilio BrowneDany BruchRicardo CampelloJules DenelGraham EzzyVictor FernandezGustav HäggströmFlorian JungPhilip KösterAntoine MartinMoritz MauchJake MillerBryan Metcalf PerezFederico MorisioAlex MussoliniMarc PareMarkus RydbergAleix SanllehyJohn SkyeJaeger StoneRobby SwiftThomas TraversaDieter van der EykenKlaas Voget
20 ladies are registered for the ladies Pro event, what’s a good amount. 7 of them are regular PWA riders.
Ladies Pro fleet:
Vickey AbbotNayra AlonsoAlice ArutkinAmanda BeenenSam BittnerJessica CrispShawna CropasSarah HauserUli HoelzlTatiana HowardIngrid LaroucheIballa MorenoDaida MorenoWaka NishidaSarah-Quita OffringaAnne-Marie Reichman-TotahRobynne RileyAnna RohdenTiffany WardFiona Wylde
