Ravi Parent & Severin Gramm have been crowned World Champions in Clearwater Beach after a last day full of twists and turns.
First, Ravi Parent–Severin Gramm got a BFD in Race 8, when there were poor results for Cruz Gonzalez Smith-Mariano Heuser & Toni Rivas (14 & 15), those being discardable as their worst scores so far. The bullet went to Lars & Olin Guck, Robbie Daniel-Gary Chu finishing 2nd, and Gavin Colby-Kai Colman 3rd, leading to a 29 points tie between Gavin Colby-Kai Colman & Ravi Parent–Severin Gramm, 3points ahead Cruz & Mariano…
Everything was still possible at the front…
Then Race 9 went to Iordanis Paschalidis-Konstantinos Trigkonis, Ravi & Severin finishing 2nd, taking an option on the title, when the Argies got a 23, their worst score in the championship.
Ravi Parent–Severin Gramm secured the title in scoring 4 in both 10th & 11th races, for a total of 39 points, Gavin Colby-Kai Colman getting Silver with 57 points, when the battle was tight for the Bronze, finally going to Cruz Gonzalez Smith-Mariano Heuser, in a tie with Toni Rivas Mas-Jordi Jordi Sánchez Pérez, one point ahead Greek pair Iordanis Paschalidis-Konstantinos Trigkonis.
At the end of the day, a highly contested championship, five different Nations, four continents and three makes being represented in the top five.
Pictures by Anna Suslova
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