Monday, 16 September 2019 14:42
Teenage tour leader poised to bag hat-trick of victories at KiteFoil World Series in China
Slovenia’s Toni Vodisek is within touching distance of a third successive KiteFoil World Series tour stop victory after another day of breathtakingly-tight racing at the season’s penultimate event on the Yellow Sea track off eastern China’s Pingtan Island. Vodisek, 19, landed two bullets and a second in the challenging conditions, with winds gusting to 27kts over a mounting swell laced with chop, that made most competitors’ 11m kites more than a handful. But with France’s Axel Mazella on a charge and snapping at his heels, series’ leader Vodisek can afford no slip-ups in the three races of the final fifth…
Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:46
Battle for honours tightens in swelling women’s ranks at KiteFoil World Series in China
The margins separating the top women at the penultimate stop of the KiteFoil World Series being fought out in Pingtan, east China, shrank dramatically in a clutch of breathless races in challenging conditions. But at the head of the women’s fleet, four-time Formula Kite world champion, Daniela Moroz (USA), retained her convincing lead on the third day of intense battles on the Yellow Sea track, despite dismissing her outing as ‘the worst” she had experienced. Just three leaderboard places behind her in the 27-strong mixed fleet, reigning KiteFoil world champion, Kirstyn O’Brien (USA), is locked in titanic struggle with Russia’s…
Saturday, 14 September 2019 15:33
Slovenian tour leader hits top in day of drama at KiteFoil World Series’ China stop
The Slovenian teenager leading the KiteFoil World Series tour reasserted himself in formidable fashion to go top of the standings at the third stop in Pingtan, eastern China, in testing conditions. But while Toni Vodisek, 19, opened his day's account with three flawless bullets on the windward-leeward Yellow Sea track that left the world’s fastest kitefoilers in his wake, he did not have it all his own way. With his distinctive fluorescent orange helmet and board, Vodisek appeared to have the day’s penultimate fourth race in the bag, too, after leading for most of the way round the course. But…
Friday, 13 September 2019 16:02
New order as Frenchman finds his groove at World Series’ second China stop
France’s Théo de Ramecourt stole the show at the opening of the KiteWorld Series’ third act on Pingtan Island, eastern China, when he seized two bullets that were enough to get his nose in front in the standings. De Ramecourt just edged out current World Series’ leader, Slovenia’s Toni Vodisek, who looked unstoppable when he closed out the first of two back-to-back stops in China with a bravura flourish earlier in the week. Just as it appeared that Vodisek, 19, was about to continue where he had left off a few days ago in Weifang, he crashed on the last…
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Thursday, 12 September 2019 11:12
Prospect of mouthwatering KiteFoil World Series showdown as racers seek to avenge defeats
The stage is set for a thrilling showdown at the third act of the 2019 KiteFoil World Series that will play out on the roiling waters off Pingtan Island, east China, with the globe’s fastest athletes going head-to-head.In expected high winds whipped up by a typhoon skirting the track off Fujian province, many will be looking for redemption after watching teenagers, Slovenia’s Toni Vodisek and the US’s Daniela Moroz, close out victories earlier in the week in very different conditions in Weifang Bihai.The globe-trotting tour’s Pingtan event—with a prize purse of $40,000—is the second of back-to-back stops in China and…
Monday, 09 September 2019 17:17
Slovenian teenager makes it consecutive wins with triumph at KiteFoil World Series in China
Slovenia’s Toni Vodisek clinched victory in dramatic fashion at the death of the KiteFoil World Series’ second tour stop at Weifang Binhai, north-east China, after four action-packed days of tight racing in near-perfect conditions.Vodisek, 19, who dominated the tour’s first act in Gizzeria, Italy, in July, suffered a catastrophic crash while leading in the final day’s last race. He struck something in the water pushing hard on the first downwind leg, breaking his kite lines and putting him out of the race.But by then the teenager, who exploded into the top echelon this season, had already done enough in the…
Sunday, 08 September 2019 14:32
Kitefoil World Series’ leader surges to top after slow start in China
Slovenian teenager Toni Vodisek finally got his nose in front at the top of the standings at the KiteFoil World Series in China after a stellar run of races in lighter airs on the penultimate day of the competition.Vodisek, 19, who leads the World Series after a dominant win at the first tour stop in Italy in July, grabbed three bullets from the day’s five races, helping him vault up the order from his fourth position overnight.In doing so he leapfrogged multiple former world champion, France’s Maxime Nocher, who had held the lead throughout the opening two days of the…
Saturday, 07 September 2019 14:18
Wafer thin margins divide leading kitefoil racers at World Series in China
Little separates the leading pack at the head of the order at the KiteFoil World Series in Weifang Binhai, north-east China, after another day of scintillating racing where the top athletes traded high-placed finishes.Just two points lie between the top three men after 11 high-octane races at the half-way point of the four-day competition being played out on the Yellow Sea off Shandong Province.With 2019 World Series’ tour leader, Slovenia’s Toni Vodisek, 19, claiming three bullets from the second day’s six races, it appeared he could steal a march on the leading trio, before some misfortune and a couple of mixed…
Friday, 06 September 2019 14:54
Top kitefoil racers play leaderboard Snakes and Ladders at World Series in China
The opening skirmishes at the Weifang Binhai stop of the KiteFoil World Series in north-eastern China saw the leading contenders play Snakes and Ladders as they traded places at the top of the order in stellar conditions.But when the dust settled, France’s multiple former world champion, Maxime Nocher, riding his own Flymaax brand kites, topped the standings with a solid tally of scores that included a bullet, a second and third-placed finishes in breezes that built from 7kts to 13kts.Former world champion, Germany’s Florian Gruber, also opened his account at the second of the four-stop “open” kitefoil tour with an…
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