GKA Freestyle Kite World Cup 2024 (QAT)
In the women’s final, the favourite was overall leader Bruna Kajiya, who had been on top of her game all season. Two Spaniards, Rita Arnaus and Claudia León, as well as Kaya Lehmann (GER) qualified for the decisive heat too. Lehmann landed a good Double S-bend to Blind late in the heat, but was a little adrift and finished fourth behind León (3rd place), who also struggled to put a convincing heat together. Arnaus fared better with a decent heat with a total score of 16.97 points, enough for 2nd place in Qatar and in the overall standings. However, no one could stop the newly crowned World Champion: Kajiya was once more in a league of her own, bringing her total up to 26.3 points, securing her fifth title.
In the men’s category, a tie for the top spot in the overall rankings was set to be broken between Maxime Chabloz (SUI) and France’s Arthur Guillebert. At first Chabloz and his French rival seemed to struggle, instead German 15-year-old Finn Flügel came out with three big scores of 7.17, 8.00 and 8.33 points respectively, taking the lead early. Guillebert found his back in a bit, climbing in second place at that stage before Chabloz countered with a huge Backmobe 7 trick, which was rewarded with 9.43 points. In the end, Flügel held on to the lead (30.20 points) to clinch his first ever World Cup win on the World Tour! Chabloz held off Guillebert (3rd place) to secure 2nd place, which was enough to secure his first ever World Champion title!
Event Results Men – Freestyle Kite | Event Results Women – Freestyle Kite | Final Overall Standings Men | Final Overall Standings Women |
1 | Finn Flügel (GER) | 1 | Bruna Kajiya (BRA) | 1 | Maxime Chabloz (SUI) | 1 | Bruna Kajiya (BRA) |
2 | Maxime Chabloz (SUI) | 2 | Rita Arnaus (ESP) | 2 | Arthur Guillebert (FRA) | 2 | Rita Arnaus (ESP) |
3 | Arthur Guillebert (FRA) | 3 | Claudia León (ESP) | 3 | Finn Flügel (GER) | 3 | Kaya Lehmann (GER) |
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