last weekend, some Freespeed players represented Switzerland at the 2013 european championship of beach ultimate:
Open: Ary Vaistij, Dave Moser, Harry Ohla Miki Martinec
Women: Chrigi Hürlimann
Open Masters: Lu Szabo, Oli Ducarre
the biggest news of the weekend is the double happiness of the open team! after winning the ECBU in 2008 and almost bringing home the SOTG award (Freespeed represented Switzerland in 2008), the swiss boys managed to win the tournament and being rated the most spirited team! congrats to this team who won everything there was to win!
the women team had a great run in the first three days, beating strong teams like Germany and Finland. On saturday they beat GB in a contested semifinal on double game point! in the finals the russian girls were too strong in the second half of the game. silver medal for the swiss women’s team. and a noteworthy 3rd place in the SOTG ranking list!
open masters ended on 11th place.
all results: http://live.ecbu2013.org/scores/?view=teams
some nice recaps of each day from skyd magagazine:
day 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7zh1qLV3co
day 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXl6e8YgboE
day 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1q0tg5TDN4
day 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q913IAcxYCk