World Aquabike Championships Abu Dhabi Race Report
So the first ever Standard Distance Aquabike World Championships are done and dusted. Despite the exotic location and the date long after the end of the racing season for most athletes in the northern hemisphere almost 200 aquabike athletes started the race in Abu Dhabi. Many of the top ranked aquabikers might have been absent, but it still was certainly a well worthy World Championship race. The top 20 finishers came from 14 different countries, showing that this multisport discipline is not only attracting athletes in the two “home countries” of aquabike racing. There was only one athlete from both, the United States and Great Britain, in the top 20 of the men’s race.
But the conditions certainly where not easy especially from athletes who travelled from the cold northern November to the heat of Abu Dhabi. Looking at the results it really seems like athletes from the southern hemisphere had to struggle less with the warm conditions. The only country who had three athletes in the top 20 in the end was… was Brazil! Parabéns!
