European Championships 2008 - Turkey

10th European Championships 2008 Bursa, Turkey

On the 17th of October 96 riders and 134 friends, family and support staff made their way to the brand new purpose built Cable. The Championships was opened by the municipality of Bursa who built the cable and made the event possible. Dutch fashion company Protest were the headline sponsor of the event and for the first time ever the Championships were broadcast live to IP TV and the internet livestream. With 5 cameras and a large screen on site this event was as spectacular for the large number of spectators on site as those at home. 

The sun and the nice weather were definitively reward for the perfect Turkish organization. It was a final day, where the Özdilek Cable Wakeboard European Championships got the rest of the results.

The most difficult categories to predict were as always Open categories, men and women. But Maxine surprised everybody, showing her 2nd run, when she was already set up for the first place on the podium. Her team rider, Mike Ketellapper, this time missed the podium, in a first run falling on the end with toeside 7 and in a second, on the beginning of the run, he missed S-mobe.