The icing on the cake of extraordinary rowing season, marked by 27 Olympic medals (out of 42) arrived yesterday from the Principality of Monaco where Filippi boats won the Prince Albert II coastal rowing Challenge for the second time in a row. There were two days of top-level competitions in the fantastic setting of the waters in front of the Tourist harbour of Monaco. The best specialists in the world of coastal rowing, Olympic specialty from 2028, fought on singles, doubles and fours on the 4000 meter course in open water on Saturday and the 500 meter sprint on Sunday. There were as many as 25 rowing Olympians competing, including 11 medalists and 4 absolute gold medalists in Paris representing 18 countries.
Main Filippi teams that competed at CPA 2 2024
- Ander Martin
- Esther Briz Zamorano
- Monika Dukarska
- Gonzalo Garcia Ferrero
- Sergio Lopez
- Coach: Moncho Ferrer
- Davide Mumolo
- Chris Bak
- Katharina Lobnig
- Magdalena Lobnig
- Alvaro Miralles
- Coach: Kurt Traer
The winner was the Filippi “Performance” team made up of the vice-champion of the Endurance world, the Italian Davide Mumolo, an Olympian from Paris in the Fiamme Oro, the Austrian sisters Katharina and Magdalena Lobnig, world champions of double Endurance last September in Genoa and the champion of single beach sprint world championship, the American Chris Bak was brought in specially from Cincinnati (Ohio).The coxwain was the Spaniard from Alicante, Alvaro Miralles.
Filippi F87 won both men’s and women’s solo races with Davide Mumolo and Magdalena Lobnig while in coxed quad F82 Team Performance got two second places both in open water and in the sprint race.
In third place overall, always with our shells F87, F81 and F82 was the Filippi Cote d'Azur team lining up vice Olympic champion of Paris in the doubles, the Italian Gabriel Soares who we saw in action end of August at the Donoratico Nautical Club as a special guest of the international training camp for the World Championships with the United States, Germany, Egypt and Hong Kong.
In Cote D'azur team leaded by local olympian Quentin Antognelli, Gaia Chiavini and Thomas Aubel from local club Aviron Monaco and Elodie Ravera from French national Coastal rowing team.
But in general there were 14 Filippi teams out of the 25 competing with the Donoratico company which made its workers available for the assistance service of the event of which Filippi is official supplier.
Filippi Élite team
Surprisingly this year, Prince Albert of Monaco also attended the awards ceremony in the halls of the exclusive Monegasque Nautical Club and, in addition to awarding the winners, he had the opportunity to stop at the stands of the companies that support the event. The Prince exchanged a few words with the owner of Filippiboats, David Filippi and with his son Jacopo, who had last week end his international “baptism” since he was at his first experience with Filippi racing team on the venue.
The organization of the Challenge Prince Albert II leaded by Rolland Weil and Matthias Raymond deserves to be mentioned since it was at height of the cream of the crop racing in Monaco.
