Lancelin Ocean Classic-Laure Treboux takes the title!

2009/01/13

Laure Treboux (SUI-4) won the women´s wave event and the expression session at the Australian Lancelin Ocean Classic 2009!

The Ocean Classic is a big windsurfing festival including a wave event, the longest downwind race and a slalom, all of it in a unique atmosphere thanks to the great organisation: music playing all the time, live bands, loads of people coming to watch, free windsurfing lessons. Lancelin, which is usually more like a quiet little town, turns into a really busy party ground!

The wave event started on Thursday and Laure entered both the ladies and elite fleet. The wind was pretty light but some nice headhigh waves were coming in. They sent all the girls out at the same time for a 25 minutes heat. They all loved it, catching waves, smiling and having fun. Laure landed a few loops, shove its and so on, got some nice riding, and won!

She also went back later on out for the Elite's single elimination. The waves were getting better and better and she got some really good waves, but unfortunately didn't make it. The guys were all ripping and it was really good to sail with them though! Lots of big names were there: Boujmaa, Jaegger Stone, Scotty, Ben Severne, Luke Walmsley, etc.

On Friday, they started the double elimination. The wind was really light and the swell had dropped, so it was hard to jump or find a wave to ride out there. The guys in Laure´s first two heats decided the wind was too light and didn't come out, so she advanced through 2 rounds until I met Boujmaa and got kicked out. A good experience!

Once the double was over they ran expression sessions for all the other categories, so all the girls were out there and had once again the spot for themelves! Laure was out on her freestyle board and had a really nice freestyle-wave session: shakas, air flakas, some littles wave rides, and finished 1st as well!

They ran the downwind race on Saturday which was really nice to watch. 26km and 170 people! The swell came back so we went out for some more fun, and on Saturday night the legendary party at the Tavern was on, as good as usual. On Sunday the wind decided not to pick up, which was ok as everyone was dead and happy to chill at the beach!

Laure Treboux:
"I just came back from the Lancelin Ocean Classic, which was such a great event as usual. Wind, waves, lots of people, music and party. And I won the girls' wave event as well as the girl's expression session! Really happy. On Thursday, the waves were really nice, I sailed well, got some nice waves and jumps. The wind was really light and the waves small for the expression session on Friday, so I went out on my freestyle board and did shakas, air flakas and so on, a few little wave rides. It was just a great few days for promoting windsurfing, lots and lots of people did the downwind race as well, hundreds of people came to watch.
I've attached a couple of pics, we did a heli shoot as well and I think I got some good shots.Thanks a lot to all the organisators and sponsors for this great event, we're all really looking forward to next year!"

Congratulations Laure!

More info:www.ocenclassics.com.au