Stage 1: Whitewater Grand Prix- “Freestyle- Big Trick”- Gladiator Wave”
35 paddlers (27 men and 7 women) competed today on Gladiator Wave.
The Ottawa Valley gave us a wonderful spring day with Sunny weather and
high of 55 degrees. The format for today’s competition was fun, and
an all day event.
The Women of this year’s Grand Prix are here in force:
Martina Wegman, Nicole Mansfield, Adrienne Levkneckt, Sandra Hyslop,
Mariann Saether, Louise Urwin, Hanna Kertesz all competed yesterday…
Looking forward to watching them compete! They had some great moves
yesterday!
The Men are:
Dane Jackson (USA)
Nich Troutman (CAN)
Kalob Grady (CAN)
Ben Marr (CAN)
Tyler Curtis (CAN)
Marcos Gallegos (CHL)
Aniol Serrasolses (ESP)
Anthony Yap (AUS)
Bryan Kirk (USA)
Devyn Scott (CAN)
Eric Jackson (USA)
Galen Volckhausen (USA)
Gerd Serrasolses (ESP)
Jakub Nemec (CZE)
Mat Dumoulin (FRA)
Rush Sturges (USA)
Steve Fisher (ZAF)
Tino Specht (USA)
Joel Kowalski (CAN)
Chris Gragtmans (CAN)
Bren Orton (GBR)
Casper van Kalmthout (NLD)
Sam Ward (GBR)
Louis-Philippe Rivest (CAN)
Tyler Fox (CAN)
Lane Jacobs (USA)
Jules Domine (FRA)
- Meet at 9am to check the water levels and location of event based on those levels.
- Meet at Gladiator Wave at 11am for competitors meeting and heat assignments.
- Begin heat one at 12pm- two hours of round robin surfing- which worked out to be 6 rides each.
- Begin heat 2 at 2pm- same format… still ...more