Top 10 River Surfers 2018, Europe

This year, Europe’s best river surfers had the chance to compete against each other in four river surf competitions, hosted in three different countries. But who’s leading over the whole series of contests? Here’s the final ranking!

Even though the four contests were held independently from each other, we were curious about what’s going to happen, if we sum up the individual rankings. So we assigned 100 points for the first place, 90 for the second etc. and calculated the total points for each rider. This is an unconventional approach, but it leaves us with a ranking of the Top 10 river surfers for both Men and Women. All results are given in the table below. Congrats to our winners Rahel, Jan and Vinzent!

The 2018 Top 10 River Surfer Ranking is based on the results of the following four river surf competitions:

Bad Ischl, Crown of the Trown (AUT)
Bratislava, Riot River (SVK)
Bremgarten, Bremzgi River Jam (CHE)
Thun, River Surf Jam Thun (CHE)

Always keep in mind: River surf comps are not about the waves as much as coming together and supporting one another!

MEN

Rank	Rider	Country	Results	Total points
1	Jan Schenk	CHE	Thun: 2nd Bremgarten: 3rd	170
1	Vincent Schneider-Keller	CHE	Bremgarten: 1st Thun: 4th	170
2	Dimitri Scholl	CHE	Thun: 1st Bremgarten: 5th	160
2	Lennard Weinold	GER	Bad Ischl: 3rd Bratislava: 3rd	160
3	Lukas Brunner	GER	Bratislava: 1st	100
3	Maximilian Neuböck	AUT	Bad Ischl: 1st	100
4	Lukas Haigermoser	AUT	Bratislava: 2nd	90
4	Martin Oberleitner	AUT	Bad Ischl: 2nd	90
4	Martin Suter	CHE	Bremgarten: 2nd	90
5	Manuel Burger	AUT	Bad Ischl: 5th Bratislava: 6th	80

WOMEN

Rank	Rider	Country	Results	Total points
1	Rahel Brunner	CHE	Bremgarten: 1st Thun: 1st	200
2	Laura Haustein	GER	Bad Ischl: 2nd Bratislava: 2nd	180
3	Christina Minimayr	AUT	Bad Ischl: 1st	100
3	Janina Zeitler	GER	Bratislava: 1st	100
4	Colette Silvisberg	CHE	Thun: 2nd	90
4	Eva Loach	AUT	Bratislava: 3rd Bad Ischl: 6th	90
4	Martina Erne	CHE	Bremgarten: 2nd	90
5	Anja Sarkany	CHE	Bremgarten: 3rd	80
5	Anna Lehmann	CHE	Thun: 3rd	80
5	Inka Minimayr	AUT	Bad Ischl: 3rd	80

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Simon Simon is the "Youngest Veteran". He has been chasing river waves since almost 20 years, starting on a wave in the south of Munich, one of the birth places of our sport. Simon loves high water surfing and river surf comps and dreams about barrelling river waves, since he was lucky enough to surf one during his many trips.