A huge internatioinal invasion of freestylers converged on Rimini, Italy for the 2004 Acrobatic Paganello.
New players from Israel entered their first big competitions. Last year’s rookies from the FPA Worlds
took on the role of seasoned veterans. Top-ranked players mentored the newcomers and all the participants collaborated to put on a great show.
Gary Auerbach, Paul Kenny and Reto Zimmerman won the Co-op division over 8 other teams, winning the final by 6 points over Clay Collera, Tom Leitner and Pipo Lopez. Seventeen teams entered the pairs division. Clay Collera and Tom Leitner came out on top, defeating Paul Kenny and Reto Zimmerman by four points.
In addition to Collera, Leitner, Kenny and Zimmerman, Puerto Rico’s Pipo Lopez and Roma’s Alessandro Damiano and Edoardo Favorini made both finals.
Fabio Sanna and Stefano Mestroni won a special qualifier into the Semifinals, outscoring ten other teams.
Sanna chronicled the whole competition and has posted videos and
photos on Freeskyler.com. Luca Gagliardi captured some wonderful
action shots that are on display here. And don’t forget Paganello’s house photographers,
whose images can be seen at paganello.com.
The complete results:
2004 Acrobatic Paganello
Rimini, Italy
April 10-11, 2004
CO-OP
Final
1. Gary Auerbach/Paul Kenny/Reto Zimmerman (69 points)
2. Clay Collera/Tom Leitner/Pipo Lopez (63)
3. Alessandro Damiano/Edoardo Favorini/Mark Regalbuti (54)
4. Lorenzo Apriani/Fernando Botrugno/Matteo Gaddoni (46)
Semifinal 1
1. Clay Collera/Tom Leitner/Pipo Lopez (62.0 points)
2. Lorenzo Apriani/Fernando Botrugno/Matteo Gaddoni (60.3)
3. Gregory Lo-a-Sjoe/Stefano Mestroni/Fabio Sanna (50.7)
4. Iwan De Moor/Steve Hays/Jan Soerensen (44.2)
5. Dan Lustiger/Eilam Raz/John Titcomb (40.1)
Semifinal 2
1. Gary Auerbach/Paul Kenny/Reto Zimmerman (65.3 points)
2. Alessandro Damiano/Edoardo Favorini/Mark Regalbuti (48.8)
3. Andrea Meola/Antonio Piccione/Dori Yaniv (45.7)
4. Luca Medri/Paolo Mirabelli/Hila Yaniv (45.5)
PAIRS
Final
1. Clay Collera/Tom Leitner (70.6 points)
2. Paul Kenny/Reto Zimmerman (66.6)
3. Steve Hays/Pipo Lopez (62.3)
4. Alessandro Damiano/Edoardo Favorini (61.8)
Disco Semifinals (Top 4 to finals)
1. Paul Kenny/Reto Zimmerman (74.2 points)
2. Clay Collera/Tom Leitner (69.3)
3. Alessandro Damiano/Edoardo Favorini (66.6)
4. Steve Hays/Pipo Lopez (63.6)
5. Gary Auerbach/Dori Yaniv (61.4)
6. Lorenzo Apriani/Fernando Botrugno (56.6)
7. Stefano Mestroni/Fabio Sanna (51.9)
Consolation Semifinals
(Winning team advances to Disco Semifinals)
1. Stefano Mestroni/Fabio Sanna (52.6 points)
2. Andrea Meola/>Antonio Piccione (49.4)
3. Matteo Gaddoni/Mark Regalbuti (47.9)
4. Xtehn Titcomb/Zahlen Titcomb (45.3)
5. Gregory Lo-a-Sjoe/Vehro Titcomb (44.9)
6. Iwan De Moor/Jan Soerensen (39.6)
7. Luca Medri/John Titcomb (39.2)
8. Paolo Mirabelli/Hila Yaniv (38.7)
9. Emanuele Costa/Mauro Mercuri (36)
10. Claudio Massaro/Luca Mazzuccato (32.3)
11. Ayal Benin/Eilam Raz (scratch)
Round 1
(Top 3 from each pool to Disco Semifinal Round. All other teams to consolation semi.)
Pool A
1. Paul Kenny/Reto Zimmerman (74.9 points)
2. Alessandro Damiano/Edoardo Favorini (56.3)
3. Lorenzo Apriani/Fernando Botrugno (55.5)
4T. Xtehn Titcomb/Zahlen Titcomb (47.8)
4T. Iwan De Moor/Jan Soerensen (47.8)
6. Paolo Mirabelli/Hila Yaniv (45.4)
7. Emanuele Costa/Mauro Mercuri (39.2)
8. Claudio Massaro/Luca Mazzuccato (35.7)
Pool B
1. Clay Collera/Tom Leitner (57.9 points)
2. Steve Hays/Pipo Lopez (51.7)
3. Gary Auerbach/Dori Yaniv (50.9)
4. Matteo Gaddoni/Mark Regalbuti (47.6)
5. Stefano Mestroni/Fabio Sanna (46.8)
6. Andrea Meola/Antonio Piccione (45.2)
7. Luca Medri/John Titcomb (39.4)
8. Gregory Lo-a-Sjoe/Vehro Titcomb (35.8)
9. Ayal Benin/Eilam Raz (29.6)