The GKA Kite-Surf World Tour 2018 Women’s Champion is Jalou Langeree

Carla finishes the year in second, a strong result for the Spaniard given her relative inexperience in the waves before she joined the tour in 2017. With Jalou currently planning a break from competition in 2019 you can bet Carla’s eyeing her chances at a tour title next season!

Charlotte Carpentier had a challenging time of it at this event, crashing out early in the single eliminations after losing to Australian rider Jennie Milton. This has been an impressive debut year for her on the tour though and a series of steadily progressing strapless freestyle performances throughout the season had given her a good base of points before this event began, so she retains her third place position overall.

Johanna Catharina Edin will no doubt be overjoyed with her performance this week. She scored third place and although it doesn’t move her any higher in the overall rankings she still finishes the season in fourth and that’s a solid final position at the end of her first year on tour. She’d aimed for a top five finish and she stuck it. Let’s see if she can build on that in 2019!

Moona Whyte sadly missed this event and last month’s KSWT Brazil after injuring her back at home in Hawaii, but second place earlier this year in Dakhla and two first place finishes in Portugal and Cape Verde had seen her already amass enough points to round out the season in fifth place.

WOMEN’S TOP FIVE

1: Jalou Langeree – NL

2: Carla Herrera Oria – ESP

3: Charlotte Carpentier – FRA

4: Johanna Catharina Edin – SE

5: Moona Whyte – USA

Published on: 17th December 2018