OFFICIAL RESULTS
1st : Eric TERRIEN
2nd : Gaétan SENE
3rd : Belarmino DIAZ
1st : Eric TERRIEN
2nd : Gaétan SENE
3rd : Belarmino DIAZ
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Salon Nautique International de Paris 8 to 16 Dec. 2012 Paris - Porte de Versailles
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Nautic Paris SUP Crossing
SUP on the Seine comes to Nautic
A hundred courageous souls meet down at the river in front of the BNF to line up for the start of the Nautic SUP Paris Crossing. This race marks the advent of a new generation of water sports enthusiasts, and the return of surf sports to the heart of the leading French boat show.
It was a surf-sports day in Paris with the 2nd Cross-Paris Stand-Up Paddleboard Race, organised by Nautic, in partnership with NAISH and MICROSOFT. It was early Sunday morning at first light, in weather conditions that gave the moment a special atmosphere. About a hundred - 101 to be exact – valiant souls, gathered in front of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to line up for the start of this race that was inaugurated last year.
Over an eleven kilometre course down the Seine, racing past some of the capital’s most famous monuments, Eric Terrien paddled his way to victory, after a fall at the start of the race and despite the presence of a strong wind at the end. He crossed the finish at Quai de Javel, located in front of the Thalassa barge, two minutes 41 seconds before the other riders, under the eye of a spectator more informed than most in the person of Robby Naish, sponsor of the event, who followed the race aboard the boat used by the race management.
Antoine Albeau, multiple windsurfing champion of the world, took 17th place, when Faustine Merret, gold medallist at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, finished 2nd among the women riders, in the day’s first round which had coefficient 2.
To be continued after a well-deserved break taken at Microsoft headquarters, the competitors met up again in the aisles of the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre to do battle in a second round which took the form of sprints back and forth across the 40-metre activity pool in Le Spot, before an appreciative public. Combining the results of the two rounds, Eric Terrien, one of the world’s specialists in SUP, who has already won a number of races in France, Italy, and Germany and was a finalist in the “Battle of the Paddle” in Hawaii and California, emerged ahead of Gaétan Séné and Belarmino Diaz. He won his ticket to the Naish Paddle Championship in Hawaii next July. In the Juniors category, Arthur Daniel won the Nautic SUP Paris Crossing, while Sonni Honscheid took the laurels of victory in the Junior Women’s category. Both received a Naish Stand-Up Paddleboard. In all the categories, those in second place went home with an Xbox 360 console with Kinect. The event was a success across the board, confirmed by the show’s general manager and fervent promoter of the race Alain Pichavant: “Nautic is the ritual gathering for the water sports industry. Stand-Up Paddleboarding being a sport on the rise, it seems obvious to us to promote it with a large-scale event.” His enthusiasm is shared by Robby Naish: “Paddling across Paris, is something amazing. This event, where you set off at dawn, is magical. I took loads of photos...the potential of this crossing is considerable, Paris is Paris and paddling down the middle of the city is a sensation that touches the collective imagination!”
It was a surf-sports day in Paris with the 2nd Cross-Paris Stand-Up Paddleboard Race, organised by Nautic, in partnership with NAISH and MICROSOFT. It was early Sunday morning at first light, in weather conditions that gave the moment a special atmosphere. About a hundred - 101 to be exact – valiant souls, gathered in front of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France to line up for the start of this race that was inaugurated last year.
Over an eleven kilometre course down the Seine, racing past some of the capital’s most famous monuments, Eric Terrien paddled his way to victory, after a fall at the start of the race and despite the presence of a strong wind at the end. He crossed the finish at Quai de Javel, located in front of the Thalassa barge, two minutes 41 seconds before the other riders, under the eye of a spectator more informed than most in the person of Robby Naish, sponsor of the event, who followed the race aboard the boat used by the race management.
Antoine Albeau, multiple windsurfing champion of the world, took 17th place, when Faustine Merret, gold medallist at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, finished 2nd among the women riders, in the day’s first round which had coefficient 2.
To be continued after a well-deserved break taken at Microsoft headquarters, the competitors met up again in the aisles of the Porte de Versailles exhibition centre to do battle in a second round which took the form of sprints back and forth across the 40-metre activity pool in Le Spot, before an appreciative public. Combining the results of the two rounds, Eric Terrien, one of the world’s specialists in SUP, who has already won a number of races in France, Italy, and Germany and was a finalist in the “Battle of the Paddle” in Hawaii and California, emerged ahead of Gaétan Séné and Belarmino Diaz. He won his ticket to the Naish Paddle Championship in Hawaii next July. In the Juniors category, Arthur Daniel won the Nautic SUP Paris Crossing, while Sonni Honscheid took the laurels of victory in the Junior Women’s category. Both received a Naish Stand-Up Paddleboard. In all the categories, those in second place went home with an Xbox 360 console with Kinect. The event was a success across the board, confirmed by the show’s general manager and fervent promoter of the race Alain Pichavant: “Nautic is the ritual gathering for the water sports industry. Stand-Up Paddleboarding being a sport on the rise, it seems obvious to us to promote it with a large-scale event.” His enthusiasm is shared by Robby Naish: “Paddling across Paris, is something amazing. This event, where you set off at dawn, is magical. I took loads of photos...the potential of this crossing is considerable, Paris is Paris and paddling down the middle of the city is a sensation that touches the collective imagination!”
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