Red Bull Upstream Tacen 2008 - Highlight

Wakeboarders "slided" whitewaters Upstream!

On September 20th more than 1,500 spectators lined along the Sava river in Tacen / Slovenia to witness the birth of a new sports discipline.

12 most courageous European wakeboarders competed against each other on the kayak route in Tacen at the very first wakeboard contest on whitewater called Red Bull Upstream. Let us remind you again this was a world premiere!

Final standings:

1 Nico Lerchenfeld (GER)
2 Balász Bakró (HUN)
3 Dominik Gührs (GER)
4 Robert Pokovec (SLO)
5 Emilio Epstein (GER)
6 Norbert Vasko (HUN)
7 Quentin Delefortrie (BEL)
8 Sebastian Stare (GER)
9 Lovro Klepac (CRO)
10 Vukašin Čupić (SRB)
11 Marco Gradl (GER)
12 Jan Kralj (SLO)

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• action
• water
• sport
• extreme
• wakeboard
• whitewater

[31communications]

This was produced with several cameras by Bazamedia 2.1 Productions for 31Communications & Red Bull. There were 12 invited riders.

2009 edition is on soon, on 12th of September...

[ddcare]

še eno vprašanje. kakšno kamerico uporabljaš za takšno snemanje? Kateri model ? Hvala ;)

[ddcare]

this is wakeboarding... it is realy popular sport. Does anyone now how many competitions were there?