Pegasus Airlines PWA Alaçati Turkey 2008
The picturesque Turkish town of Alaçati has offered 6 days non-stop wind to crown two world champions and present a spectacular battle for men's title in the decisive final race of the competition.
For the third successive year, the PWA returned to the shores of Alacati, Turkey, World Cup Pegasus Airlines. Before you even start the event, your name goes into history for the largest fleet enlisted for 6 days the show. The event marked the end of the Tour women's slalom, crowning the Slalom World Champion 2008. In the men's fleet, the event is the penultimate calendar 2008, the Frenchman Antoine Albeau dominating by winning all celebrated.
Day 1. The christening of a single race event was added to the account at the first day. Albeau sailed a perfect race winning each round on the way to the end and Pritchard was in his familiar second spot.
As for the women, Valerie Ghibaudo (Tabou, The Loft) and Karin Jaggi (F2 North) took power in his first race, being Ghibaudo which obtained top honors, leaving Jaggi simmering in second and Verena Fauster ( F2, Gaastra) in third.
Day 2. The wind of 16-18 knots greeted the competitors on the second day. Showing thirst for victory, Dunkerbeck worked a bit on the circuit of four buoy downwind to win their semifinal, with Albeau as a rival, both advancing to the finals where they would go together pretty tight.
Upon reaching the third race, the crowd was surprised when he heard that seven of the 10 men of the sleeve had made a false start, including Albeau, Maynard, Peter Volwater (F2, North) and Ben van der Steen (Exocet, Simmer .) The mass disqualification left Pritchard, Matt Wemms (Fanatic, North) and Jesper Orth (Starboard, Severne) free to move without even having to navigate the race. In the final race, the local Kozanoglu Bora (Starboard) stole the show: smelling his first victory and returned back by the crowd, beat Turkish Dunkerbeck a powerful performance and defied the skeptics, taking over the race and leaving Dunkerbeck in second place, Gonzalo Costa (Exocet, NeilPryde) in third and Pritchard fourth.
Regarding the girls, Jaggi won by a clear margin, leaving Marta Hlavaty (Maui Sails) and Lee Korzitz (Tabou, Gaastra) in second and third places. In the third and last race of the day, recovered the domain Ghibaudo leaving Jaggi in second place and Armenia Sarah Hebert (Starboard, Naish) in the third.
Day 3. This day started badly for Albeau, who clashed with Maynard in the fourth race, this error led to the rear of the group and despite their efforts to trace crossed the line in 10th place. In front of the participants, Dunkerbeck finished the race well ahead of his nearest rival, Williams, who was second. The other place on the podium went to Pritchard, who faced a sustained attack Maynard, fourth in the rankings.
The final witnessed a spectacular error when 7 of the 10 finalists were disqualified in a massive false start. The repetition gave the victory to Albeau, leaving Dunkerbeck very close behind in second place, and Van der Steen in the third.
The first female race of the day was dominated by Ghibaudo, with his foot firmly on the accelerator. The podium, entirely French, was completed by Alice Arutkin (Starboard, North) second, and Morane Demont quinceañera (Starboard, Severne) in the third. After a short break, Ghibaudo showed their dominance also in the fifth race.
Day 4. Kozanoglu highlighted again in the semifinals, beating Pritchard and getting the victory. Both took their places in the final by Maynard and Albeau, first and second respectively in the second semifinal.
The final was led by Dunkerbeck in the previous reply Albeau race and well ahead of this and Williams who were fighting for second place, obtained by Williams.
In the race of women, falling in Ghibaudo transluchada Jaggi opened the door to get the victory was a costly mistake that relegated to last place, but in the next race proved to be an exception when you got the win ahead of rival Jaggi, second, and Local Lena Erdil (The Loft) in third. The final was a predictable result thanks to the consistency of Ghibaudo, which gained versus the visible anger Jaggi, unable to overcome the second, and the last position Arutkin the podium.
Day 5. The ninth inning saw Dunkerbeck crashing into the quarterfinals. The champion mode activated its "Terminator" and grew to achieve the impossible. Surrounding the outer mark, leaving him Albeau fell on 6 th place and reaching the same in 9 th place while local Cyril Moussilmani (Fanatic, North) signed its first win of the event. In the second race of the day Albeau again dominated, relegating Dunkerbeck to fourth.
In females, premature exits Ghibaudo left free to lead the fleet and his seventh career win, with Jaggi in second place. The tenth race left in a conservative Ghibaudo fourth, and had to Jaggi as the winner with the second and third place in Turkish flag.
Day 6. The similar scores Dunkerbeck Albeau and made this a day with a lot of tension. Dunkerbeck took a perfect start in the final, but Albeau "captured" a bag with the flap that caused problems. They congratulated each other windsurfers, Dunkerbeck as the winner of the championship, and with a second place Albeau nowhere near enough to crown Slalom World Champion 2008.
In the race female, Ghibaudo and Jaggi were already firmly established in the first and second positions. Similarly to the classification male, Ghibaudo was named winner of the event, while the second Jaggi all won the title of World Champion Slalom 2008.
Ratings:
Men:
1st Bjorn Dunkerbeck (T1, North)
2nd Antoine Albeau (Starboard, NeilPryde)
3rd Ross Williams (Tabou, Gaastra)
4th Finian Maynard (RRD, NeilPryde)
5th Kevin Pritchard (Starboard, Gaastra, MFC, Dakine)
Women
Valerie Ghibaudo 1st (Tabou, The Loft)
2nd Karin Jaggi (F2, North)
Verena Fauster 3rd (F2, Gaastra)
4th Lena Erdil (The Loft)
5th Sarah Hebert (Starboard, Naish)
Absolute classification
Men
1st Antoine Albeau (Starboard, NeilPryde)
2nd Bjorn Dunkerbeck (T1, North)
3rd Kevin Pritchard (Starboard, Gaastra, MFC, Dakine)
4th Ross Williams (Tabou, Gaastra)
5th Finian Maynard (RRD, NeilPryde)
Women
1st Karin Jaggi (F2, North)
Valerie Ghibaudo 2nd (Tabou, The Loft)
3rd Sarah Hébert (Starboard, Naish)
Alice 4th Arutkin (Starboard, North)
5th Lee Korzitz (Tabou, Gaastra)
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