Windsurf World Cup Sylt 2025 Tag 6

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Auf dem Papier sah es so aus, als würde der sechste Tag des Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt 2025 ein weiterer Ruhetag werden, aber wie wir alle wissen, kann beim Windsurfen alles passieren, und tatsächlich kam der Wind unangekündigt auf, sodass zwei weitere Eliminationsläufe im Foil Slalom unter den bisher besten Bedingungen des Events absolviert werden konnten, obwohl die meisten Segler bei ihrer größeren Ausrüstung blieben. Der Titelverteidiger Johan Søe (PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils) hat nun nach einem weiteren äußerst erfolgreichen Tag mit einem Sieg und einem zweiten Platz die Veranstaltung fest im Griff.

Men’s

Foil Slalom

Johan Søe (PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils) started the day with a four point lead over Matteo Iachino (Starboard / Severne Sails) and after the latest two races have been completed the Dane has seen that lead reduced to three points. However, that doesn’t quite tell the full story as Søe has now cemented his place at the top of the leaderboard as he is now currently discarding a second place - after producing a superb comeback in Elimination 3 - while he signed off today in style by earning his second bullet of the event. The 22-year-old has recorded two bullets and two second places in the opening four races and looks as though he will be incredibly difficult to stop from retaining his event title.

Iachino had made the perfect start to the day as he rattled off his second bullet of the week to close to within 2.7 points of Søe, but in Elimination 4 the Italian needed another big result to discard his sixth place from the opening race. Iachino does discard that sixth place, but unfortunately it only replaced by a fifth, which means he now faces a mountain to climb in order to try and overhaul Søe. However, in the grand scheme of things, it was another solid day of work for Iachino and with his main world title rival - Pierre Mortefon (FMX Racing / NeilPryde) dropping out of the top three - it’s certainly advantage Iachino in terms of the world title at the moment.

Aside from the top two, Maciek Rutkowski (JP / NeilPryde) is the only other sailor to have qualified for every Winners’ Final thus far, and after recording a solid second and a sixth place today, the Pole jumps into third place.

Mortefon started the day in third place, but drops to fourth at the close of play after making a couple of uncharacteristic gybing errors. The Frenchman dropped his second gybe in the Winners’ Final of Elimination 3, before also dropping his final gybe in the semifinals of Elimination 4 when in the qualifying positions, which meant he missed out on the top eight for the first time this week. Mortefon is currently four points behind Rutkowski and it’ll be crucial for him to try and claw his way back into the top three to remain as close to Iachino as possible heading into the world title decider in Japan in November.

After finishing fourth in Elimination 4, Amado Vrieswijk (Future Fly / Point-7 / Z Foils) discards his tenth place from the previous elimination to move level on 14 points with Mortefon. The Bonairean gains one place from the overnight rankings - currently fifth.

Fabian Wolf (Starboard / Severne Sails) made a brilliant start to the event with a third and a fourth place, but couldn’t quite maintain those impeccable results today as the German missed out on both Winners’ Finals. However, the 27-year-old was still able to win the b-final of Elimination 3 and is still ranked in sixth place after the opening four eliminations as he chases his first top ten result on the World Tour.

William Huppert (PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils) continues to sail extremely consistently with the Frenchman recording a fifth and a seventh place today, which sees him ranked 7th, while Jordy Vonk (Duotone Windsurfing) breaks into the top ten - 8th. Vonk’s teammate - Daniele Benedetti (Duotone Windsurfing) - recorded his best result of the season thus far in Elimination 4 - third - as he starts to show more of the form that saw he become vice-world champion in 2024.

The top ten is now completed by John Soukos (WeOne / Challenger Sails) with the young Greek gaining nine places today after qualifying for both Winners’ Finals and recording a brilliant fourth and sixth place as the 21-year-old enjoyed his best day to date on the World Tour. Meanwhile, Bob van de Burgt (PATRIK / Point-7) also qualified for his first ever Winners’ Final in Elimination 4.

The forecast for Thursday looks as though there could be more racing on the menu with winds of up to 19 knots currently predicted during the afternoon. Skippers’ meetings times can be found below: (All times GMT+2)

- Foil Slalom 10am - first possible start 11am

- Freestyle 10:15am - first possible start 11am

- Wave 10:30am

Current Ranking 2025 Citroën Windsurf World Cup Sylt - Men’s Foil Slalom

*After 4 Eliminations (1 Discard)

1st Johan Søe (DEN | PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils) 2nd Matteo Iachino (ITA | Starboard / Severne Sails) 3rd Maciek Rutkowski (POL | JP / NeilPryde) 4th Pierre Mortefon (FRA | FMX Racing / NeilPryde) 5th Amado Vrieswijk (NB | Future Fly / Point-7 / Z Foils) 6th Fabian Wolf (GER | Starboard / Severne Sails) 7th William Huppert (FRA | PATRIK / PATRIK Sails / PATRIK Foils) 8th Jordy Vonk (NED | Duotone Windsurfing) 9th Daniele Benedetti (ITA | Duotone Windsurfing) 10th John Soukos (GRE | WeOne / Challenger Sails)