The 2023 ICF SUP World Championships (15-19 November 2023) in Pattaya, Thailand is on! Here are the podium results of the highly-stacked celebration of our sport welcoming nearly 50 nations!
Photo by Georgia Schofield
Claudia Postiglione | Photo by Georgia Schofield
Men Open Technical Final
1. Connor Baxter (USA)
2. Itzel Delgado (Peru)
3. Antonio Morillo (Spain)
4. Rai Taguchi (Japan)
Women Open Technical Final
1. Esperanza Barreras (Spain)
2. Melanie Lafenetre (France)
3. Juliette Duhaime (Argentina)
4. Anna Tschirky (Switzerland)
Junior Men Technical Final
1. Sergio Cantoral (Spain)
2. Vaic Garioud (France)
3. Shimazu Nariakira (Japan)
4. Luis Perotti (Spain)
Junior Women Technical Final
1. Claudia Postiglione (Italy)
2. Csillag Kocsis (Hungary)
3. Rosara Davis (New Zealand)
4. Kyriaki Logotheti (Greece)
Men 40+ Technical Final
1. Ryohei Yoshida (Japan)
2. Georgios Fragkos (Greece)
3. Christian Taucher (Austria)
4. Joep Van Bakel (The Netherlands)
Women 40+ Technical Final
1. Petronella Van Malsen (The Netherlands)
2. Susanne Lier (Germany)
3. Verity Thomas (United Kingdom)
4. Elisabet Llargues (Spain)
Men 50+ Technical Final
1. Daniel Parres (Spain)
2. Peter Weidert (Germany)
3. Marc Foraster (Spain)
4. Vincent Guillaume (France)
Women 50+ Technical Final
1. Marie Buchanan (United Kingdom)
2. Marlene Bergh (New Zealand)
3. Katerina Trdlova
4. Emmanuelle Marcon (France)
Men Open Long Distance
1. Noic Garioud (France)
2. Shuri Araki (Japan)
3. Rai Taguchi (Japan)
4. Titouan Puyo (France)
Women Open Long Distance
1. Esperanza Barreras (Spain)
2. Kimberly Barnes (USA)
3. Duna Gordillo (Spain)
4. Rika Okuaki (Japan)
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Junior Men Long Distance
1. Vaic Garioud (France)
2. Shimazu Nariakira (Japan)
3. Kotaro Miyahira (Japan)
4. Sergio Cantoral (Spain)
1. Claudia Postiglione (Italy)
2. Cecilia Pampinella (Italy)
3. Csillag Kocsis (Hungary)
4. Kanae Shibahara (Japan)
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Men 40+ Long Distance
1. Joep Van Bakel (The Netherlands)
2. Georgios Fragkos (Greece)
3. Tommy Budday (Canada)
4. Tim Oliver (Canada)
Women 40+ Long Distance
1. Petronella Van Malsen (The Netherlands)
2. Takayo Yokoyama (Japan)
3. Susanne Lier (Germany)
4. Olga Merkulova
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Men Master 50+ Long Distance
1. Peter Weidert (Germany)
2. Daniel Parres (Spain)
3. Marc Foraster (Spain)
4. Vincent Guillaume (France)
Women Master 50+ Long Distance
1. Marie Buchanan (United Kingdom)
2. Anna Occhiogrosso (Italy)
3. Penny Tsaoutou (Greece)
4. Natalia Fon (Slovenia)
WOMEN OPEN FINAL
1. Seychelle Webster (USA)
2. Juliette Duhaime (Argentina)
3. Tarryn King (South Africa)
4. Melanie Lafenetre (France)
MEN OPEN FINAL
1. Noic Garioud (France)
2. Connor Baxter (USA)
3. Andrii Kraytor (Bulgaria)
4. Davide Alpino (Italy)
JUNIOR WOMEN FINAL
1. Kyriaki Logotheti (Greece)
2. Cecilia Pampinella (Italy)
3. Naja Pinteric (Slovenia)
4 .Claudia Postiglione (Italy)
JUNIOR MEN FINAL
1. Arip Purnama (Indonesia)
2. Vaic Garioud (France)
3. Andreas Voulgaris (Greece)
4. Bole He (China)
WOMEN 40+ FINALÂ
1. Olga Merkulova
2. Petronella Van Malsen (The Netherlands)
3. Takayo Yokoyama (Japan)
4. Elisabet Llargues (Spain)
MEN 40+ FINAL
1. Tomas Lelovits (Slovakia)
2. Olivier Darrieumerlou (France)
3. Ryohei Yoshida (Japan)
4. Artem Avramenko (Ukraine)
WOMEN MASTER 50+Â
1. Penny Tsaoutou (Greece)
2. Youngmi Kim (South Korea)
3. Marlene Bergh (New Zealand)
4. Xianfu HU (China)
MEN MASTER 50+Â
1. Peter Weidert (Germany)
2. Martin Marinov (Australia)
3. Larry Cain (Canada)
4. Norbert Hodl (Austria)
Inflatable MenÂ
1. Michael Booth (Australia)
2. Andrii Kraitor (Bulgaria)
3. Vincenzo Manobianco (Italy)
4. Zeno Szabo (Hungary)
Inflatable Women
1. Su Jeong LIM (South Korea)
2. Youngmi KIM (South Korea)
3. Aidah Sitianingsih (Indonesia)
4. Zsuzanna Varga (Hungary)
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