Press Release

Press Release 6 - Portimão, 10.09.2008

Portimão is under good winds for the Formula Windsurfing World Championships!

The second day of race was full of strong emotions! The sea was slightly wavy and the wind was always present, what made the regattas of the day decisive to the sailors’ positions in the of the 2008 Portimão Formula Windsurfing World Championships classification.
 
The races started at 02:00 p.m., when the wind was around the 12 knots. These conditions kept on improving till the end of the afternoon, when an impressive 20 knots were registered, around 06:00 p.m., which made possible to achieve a total of 6 races, 2 for the Women division and 4 for the Men division.
 
As 2 races had already been done yesterday for the Women division, at present, this division has already a total of 4 races. For the Men division, 5 races had already been achieved, which allows the worst result to be put off. Should the wind fall and make it impossible to have more races in the following competition days, which is a very unlikely scenery for the moment, it would be already possible to appoint the Wold Champions in both divisions.
 
But let’s look at the results! In the Women division, the first place belongs to Marta Hlavaty [POL 1], the Poland racer that became a serious candidate to the World Champion title in the Women division of the Portimão Formula Windsurfing World Championships. The second place was conquered by Allison Shreeve [AUS 911], the current World Champion in Title and the third belongs to Olga Maslivets [UKR 9] from Ukraine.
 
After 4 races, the top ten results are the following:
 
1. Marta Hlavaty POL 111
2. Allison Shreeve AUS 911
3. Olga Maslivets UKR 9
4. Agnieszka Pietrasik POL 19
5. Verena Fauster ITA 31
6. Sarah Hebert ARM 1
7. Maarja Niinemets EST 84
8. Maria Anders Castro ESP 2
9. Morane Demont FRA 59
10. Jozefina Rudzinska POL 1381
 
In the Men division, Gonzalo Costa Hoevel from Argentina [ARG 3] is starting to win positions to his most direct contestants, closely followed by Wojtek Brzozowski [POL 10], the World Champion. In the third place, comes the British Ross Williams [GBR 83], current Europe Champion. So, after 5 races and a put off, the results are as follows:
 
1. Gonzalo Costa Hoevel [ARG 3]
2. Wojtek Brzozowski [POL 10]
3. Ross Williams [GBR 83]
4. Michal Polanowski [POL 16]
5. Alberto Menegatti [ITA 1]
6. Pawel Hlavaty [POL 11]
7. Jesper Vesterstrom [DEN 111]
8. Fabio Melo [BRA 74]
9. Arnon Dagan [ISR 1]
10. Dennis Littel [NED 13]
 
In addition to the excellent races provided by the World Championships, the IWA [International Windsurfing Association] took place here in Portimão as well, with the presence of the representatives of the Classes. The several interventions surrounded the subject of the Formula One Design project for the next Olympic Games in 2012, of which the advantages make it a promising alternative to the current Class RS:X.
 
For tomorrow, the wind forecasts are great, so we might have the best day in terms of weather conditions for the Championships. We can expect one more great day of races... The sands of the Alvor Beach, Portimão, will be the huge pit of this unique show… a sea coloured with sails, one of which will be the title winner!
 
Sponsoring the coming of this great event to Portugal, we count on the Town Hall of Portimão as main sponsor and ExpoArade, EM and the Grupo Pestana - Hotels Resorts as official sponsors. NISSAN has also joined this initiative, having acquired the title of “Official Vehicle of the Event” and participating, at the same time, in an active way with the Navaras - a 4X4 sportive utilitarian with all the power required by the demanding moves made by the Organization’s staff. This official sponsor will also provide two powerful boats, which will carry the guests to the Regatta Fields, in order to allow them to follow closely every strategy made by the competitors.

 
The TV coverage, production and distribution of the event is the responsibility of Sail TV which will provide images to the main world broadcasters and also to the Red Handed - Television and SIC Radical - Curto Circuito, the official stations. The national and international media prints associated with the event are Maxmen, Focus, Boa Forma and the official radio broadcaster is Best Rock FM. The sport portal website www.conquilha.com will have all the updated information related to the event available to the Portuguese-speaking community, estimated in 230 million people.

 
Official websites:

www.overpower.net;

www.formulawindsurfing.org;

www.internationalwindsurfing.com

 
During the event, there will be press releases in the most relevant languages, photos and video images packages with professional quality for TV and the Internet, available at any time through our Press Office.

 
For further details, please contact:

 Ágata Sequeira
email: press@100surf.pt
mob: + 351 919 453 043
tel: + 351 213 957 322
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