Possibly the hardest finish I've ever seen , talk about a pump fest . Permanently cured me from ever wanting to do this race but what an amazing effort by all that entered. This is definitely the F1 of paddle sports.

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Huge day in Hawaii with Kai Lenny pumping his way past Jeffrey Spencer to take the win in another record time 2hrs 29minutes & having done 2 M2O's the head wind into the last couple of km's is hell on a raceboard let alone trying to pump into it...
SupTomo had a shark encounter mid way into the race with the shark attacking his foil :(
Huge Congratulations to James Casey with an emotional win just beating Boothy & another amazing win for Terene taking out her 3rd M2O & in record time...
Huge day on Maui with the national Slalom windsurfing titles but the highlight of the day was the first ever Wind Wing Foil event & watching legends of the sport Robbie Naish & Alex Aguera battling it out around the course... I've got a new appreciation of this new sport & the speeds they were doing...Good to see the boys from Surf Fx there too...

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Piros said..
Possibly the hardest finish I've ever seen , talk about a pump fest . Permanently cured me from ever wanting to do this race but what an amazing effort by all that entered. This is definitely the F1 of paddle sports.

www.facebook.com/oceanpaddlertv/videos/366522974020948/

Amazing !!

I don't see Clement Colmas on the video, if the time is right, he must have flown up wind as well to be so close ???

CHAMPION: Kai Lenny (Hawaii) 2:29:38
Runner-up: Jeffrey Spener (Canada) 2:37:44
3rd: Clement Colmas (New Caledonia) 2:38:36
4th: Titouan Galea (New Caledonia) 2:52:31
5th: Bernd Roediger (Hawaii) 3:07:21
6th: Zane Schweitzer (Hawaii) 3:07:26

great effort to those M2O crossers!

incredible. The feeling of prone paddling towards the finish line with Kai Lenny still up on foil behind you must be gutting to say the least

Poor Jeff that would have been devastating. Yeah Frenchy , Clement must have motored home . Jeff was running a full blown custom Slingshot and Kai was also on secret squirrel MFC custom. Both these guys kept their wings covered up out of the water. I'm just loving this evolution it's insane.

All the hype before the race was just how fast Jeff's Foil was in the open ocean. My guess these guys are riding super high aspect wind foil designs.

Wow that last part was tough

That is insane.

I almost have a coronary if I manage to pump for 100mtrs.

How was the start!!!!! Dude on red board took off like a bullet! How they can maintain this for 52km is beyond me but so amazing to watch.

It struck me how everyone was riding the bumps, left right right left left - except Spencer - he just went straight......The shortest way between to points is a straight line and he was miles ahead by China wall! And then KaLenny pulled another magic trick...with a bit more swell they'll ride to the finish line and be done in 2 hours.

It was really cool and this is going to develop further = we need 500m flatwater foil sprints in the olympics!

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Looks like Jeffrey was going stray, not much turn, just straight and crazy fast, effortless, amazing !

So amazing that Kai was able to pump upwind for so long!

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805StandUp said..
So amazing that Kai was able to pump upwind for so long!

because Kai knows