Peter Csonka & Nina Halasova: World cup no. 3

The last World cup was situated in Thun ( CH ) , where the World championship at 2009 should be. Thun is one of the most beautiful city where I ever was, there are many channels and in one of them after the dam gates was the play spot. We came there at Monday morning , slept little and wait until Simon the main organisator build the wave. At the first day of surfing , I didn’t feel the wave and I wasn’t glad with my effort , I didn't surf wave long time. Nina didn’t paddle because she was sick and eating the antibiotics. Next days it starts to work better for me. The eddy was so full whole day and the best chance to train was during the night or early morning. The competition started at Thursday with all categories except men category. Nina couldn’t train much before , but still when I saw her at the trainings she was doing well , on the qualification she couldn’t set up on the wave and flush. She came on the place 17.

Qualification results:

K1 Junior Women

1.	Newman Nouria	FRA
2.	Häberli Leonie	SUI
3.	Hornhardt Sandrina	GER

K1 Junior Men

1.	Devred Sebastien	FRA
2.	Schwarz Samuel	SUI
3.	Jackson Dane	USA

OC1

1.	Weir James	GBR
2.	Hüther Toby	GER
3.	Blanchard Jeremy	AUS

K1 Women

1.	Gordon Ruth	CAN
2.	Jarvie Fiona	GBR
3.	Jackson Emily	USA

C1 Men

1.	Bainbridge Dave	GBR
2.	Jackson Dane	USA
3.	Pyke Lee	GBR

Next day was qualification of men category and some additional competitions like big air and king of the wave.

Top 3. Man :

1^st Peter Csonka SVK

2^nd Steven Wright USA

3^rd Eric Jackson USA

pictures from Michael Neumann ( thanks a lot )

Nina was almost queen of the wave

Next day was the quarterfinals and semifinals for each category . I am thinking that the semis are sometimes more harder as the finals and every paddler is trying as hard as possible. The results from this days should be on the http://www.riverjam.ch/

The finals was at Sunday. It was a long waiting with lot of stress.

Results :

C1 >>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleC1.pdf

K1JM>>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleK1JM.pdf

K1JW>>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleK1JW.pdf

K1W>>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleK1W.pdf

K1M>>http://www.boatercrossmasters.ch/pdf/ErgebnislisteFinaleK1M.pdf

I placed on the 3^rd place after Nick Troutman and Steven Wright , what was awesome for me because at the end I am winner of the whole World cup!!!