2008 Italian Open

2008 Italian Open
Corallo Beach
Rome, Italy
September 6-7, 2008

Open Pairs Final
1. Tom Leitner – Edoardo Favorini – 33.2
2. Claudio Massaro – Andrea Rimatori – 30.1
3. Lorenzo Apriani – Fernando Botrugno – 30
4. Antonio Piccioni Cusma – Fabio Percario – 29.2
5. Paolo Mirabelli – Alessandro Damiano – 28.4
6. Mauro Mercuri – Serge Marconi – 22.9

Open Co-op Final
1. Tom Leitner – Fernando Botrugno – Lorenzo Apriani – 22.8
2. Paolo Mirabelli – Alessandro Damiano – Mauro Mercuri – 20.1
3. Paolo Braico – Marco De Lucia – Fabrizio De Rossi – 18.1
4. Andrea Rimatori – Edoardo Favorini – Claudio Massaro – 18.0

Mixed Pairs Final
1. Carlo Perrone – Cristina Nicolardi – 22.3
1. Lorenzo Apriani – Fabiana Ciciriello – 22.3
3. Francesca Cherici – Mauro Mercuri – 27.6

Open Co-op Semi Pool A
1. Andrea Rimatori – Edoardo Favorini – Claudio Massaro – 35.5
2. Tom Leitner – Fernando Botrugno – Lorenzo Apriani – 34.3
3. Paolo Cipollini – Iwan de Moor – Serge Marconi – 27.6

Open Co-op Semi Pool B
1. Paolo Mirabelli – Alessandro Damiano – Mauro Mercuri – 37
2. Paolo Braico – Marco De Lucia – Fabrizio De Rossi – 31.4
3. Raffaelle Pilla – Antonio Piccioni Cusma – Fabio Percario – 24.8
4. Cristina Nicolardi – Fabiana Ciciriello – Francesca Cherici – 24.1

Open Pairs Semis Pool A
1. Tom Leitner – Edoardo Favorini – 23.2
2. Claudio Massaro – Andrea Rimatori – 21.6
3. Lorenzo Apriani – Fernando Botrugno – 20.6
4. Paolo Braico – Fabrizio De Rossi – 20.5
5. Carlo Perrone – Cristina Nicolardi – 18

Open Pairs Semis Pool B
1. Paolo Mirabelli – Alessandro Damiano – 22.8
2. Mauro Mercuri – Serge Marconi – 22.7
3. Antonio Piccioni Cusma – Fabio Percario – 20.9
4. Claudio Pietrarelli – Marco De Lucia – 17
5. Paolo Cipollini – Raffaelle Pilla – 14.4
6. Iwan de Moor – Alessandro Vinciguerra – 14.1

Event Page: http://www.fristail.it/ItalianOpen/results2008.html

2008 Butch Cassidy Cup

2008 Butch Cassidy Cup
Karlsruhe, Germany
September 6-7, 2008

Final

1. Matteo Gaddoni/Christian Lamred (40.2)
2. Anton Capellman/Jan Schreck (37.4)
3. Boguslaw Bul/Philipp Lenarz (36.6)
4. Carsten Heim/Laurent Mess (36.0)
5. Judith Haas/Heiko Vogt (34.5)
6. Markus Hein/Marc Pestotnik (34.1)
7. Mehrdad Hosseinian/Woo Wunder (33.7)
8. Rainer Dörr/Dom Weissenberger (32.7)

B-Final

1. Mehrdad Hosseinian/Woo Wunder (37.6)
2. Judith Haas/Heiko Vogt (34.4)
3. Markus Goetz/Stefan Duenkel (32.2)
4. Julia Schuster/Jochen Schleicher (28.1)
5. Jens Friebe/Robert Dittrich (26.9)
6. Frederic Finner/Jascha Wollman (23.4)

Semifinal Pool A

1. Matteo Gaddoni/Christian Lamred (34.2)
2. Anton Capellman/Jan Schreck (34.0)
3. Markus Hein/Marc Pestotnik (33.0)
4. Judith Haas/Heiko Vogt (32.0)
5. Mehrdad Hosseinian/Woo Wunder (28.0)
6. Frederic Finner/Jascha Wollman (22.0)
7. Ot Loetlam/Tobias Gebert (21.0)

Semifinal Pool B

1. Boguslaw Bul/Philipp Lenarz (38.1)
2. Carsten Heim/Laurent Mess (36.9)
3. Rainer Dörr/Dom Weissenberger (35.0)
4T. Julia Schuster/Jochen Schleicher (30.6)
4T. Jens Friebe/Robert Dittrich (30.6)
6. Markus Goetz/Stefan Duenkel (27.6)
7. Toufik Lamred/Heinz Auferodt (24.0)
8. Simon Emmerich/Florian Leist (23.7)

2008 Swedish Championships

2008 Swedish Championships
Norrköping, Sweden
July 23-27, 2008

(Team, Total Score, Diff, Ex, AI)
1. Joakim Arvesk‰r/Andreas Jaderyd (47.1,13.3,17.5,16.3)
2. Dieter Johasson/Stefan Karlsson (38.6,11.9,14.2,12.5)
3. Jonas Bengtsson/Peter Henriksson (32.8,9.8,12.5,10.5)
4. Gohar Mossavar Rahmani/Niloofar Mosavar Rahmani (32,9,14.3,8.7)
5. Pontus Welin/Johan Sandell (24.7,6.7,10.9,7.1)
6. Sebastian Brandtberg/Jonathan Brandtberg (24.5,7.7,11.1,5.7)
7. Thomas Jonasson/Henrik Montin (23.7,7.4,10.8,5.5)
8. Mattias Sandkvist/Oscar Grundstrˆm (21.9,4.5,13.4,4)

September 2008 Rankings – Including FPAW2008 + New #1

This new rankings list is a doozy! Six new tournaments including both the FPA Worlds and the European Freestyle Championships. A new (returning) number one player. Three new entries into the top ten open players.

Here are the lists: Open | Women

Here are some stories:

  • Tom Leitner retakes the number one spot from Fabio Sanna after winning Open Pairs at the FPA Worlds. Open Pairs was a huge factor here, as both Tom and Fabio were in the Open Pairs photo finish at Worlds. Had Tom placed less than first or Fabio placed better than 3rd, Fabio probably would have retained the top ranking. Co-op at FPA Worlds also hurt Fabio. Had his team made the finals and placed 5th or better, he could have retained #1 even with the same Open Pairs finishing order.
  • The battle at the top was unpredictable and dynamic. No one player dominated worlds this year. Reto Zimmerman earned the most points with a victory in Co-op and a 5th in Pairs. Pat Marron and Dave Lewis were only a few points behind, with their seconds in both Pairs and Co-op. Reto vaults into the Top 10 and actually doesn’t even have a full slate of results – scary! Both Pat and Dave return to the Top 5. Joakim Arvesk‰r blasts up to #7 with his Co-op victory at FPAW and EFC.
  • Clay Collera remains solidly at #3 but closes the gap to #1 to only about 100 points.
  • Lots of big upward movement, typical of a post-Worlds list. Amplify that with a European Freestyle Championships that happened within a month, and you see lots of rising stars and returning veterans. Cindy Kruger drops from 68 to 149 as her Co-op and Pairs results from FPAW2006 fall off the list.
  • The stories on the Women’s rankings list aren’t as dramatic. Eleonora Imazio keeps the #1 ranking. Lisa Hunrichs closes in, moving from 4 to 2. Amy Schiller, Cindy Kruger, and Judith Haas all enter the Top 10.

Tell us about other stories you see on the list. Let us know if you hit your best ranking ever. Contact me directly if you see any errors.