After 2 full days of competition on the sun soaked Corallo Beach the European Freestyle Frisbee Championships have come to a triumphant close. 62 players from 7 European countries competed and the Italian team of Clay Collera/ Fabio Sanna won pairs, with the German/Italian team of Florian Hess/ Christian Lamred/ Antonio Piccioni winning co-op and world champs Fabio Sanna/ Eleonara Imazio winning the mixed pairs division. Saturday's preliminary rounds and Sunday's finals produced many perfomances that lit up the beach like an Italian fireworks display.

Also on Sunday, the Swedish champions Linda Toerngren and Karolina Hagenbjoerk put on a great show performing the routine that earned them 3rd place at the world championships held last month in Berlin. Linda also took 2nd in the women's individual shred with Silvia Caruso taking first and Bianca Strunz close behind in 3rd.

Also, doing a very entertaining show between rounds were the young guns Davide & Marco Sanna playing along side Ale Collera.

Then the American judges got a chance to perform with Mark Regalbuti, Tom Leitner and Craig Simon taking to the sand for some old school shredding which also fired up the crowd.

The organizers at Corallo Beach have pledged to build an arena with a solid playing surface for next years event which will be the Italian Freestyle Open which will be open to American players as well.

Thanks to all the players and the American judges for coming and many thanks to Lorenzo, Nando, Roberto and the staff for all their hard work and to the sponsors especially Corallo Beach, the FPA and the Comune di Roma for helping put together such a great event.

Looking forward to seeing you all again next year!

- Tom Leitner
Executive Director
Freestyle Players Association (freestyledisc.org)

Open Pairs Final

1. Clay Collera/ Fabio Sanna
2. Florian Hess/ Christian Lamred
3. Matteo Gaddoni/ Luca Medri
4. Gregory Lo-a-sjoe/ Edoardo Favorini
5. Luca Mazzucato/ Claudio Massaro
6. Stefan Karlsson/ Joakim Arveskaer
7. Angelo Mancarella/ Carlo Perrone
8. Lorenzo Apriani/ Roland Karlsson

1. Florian Hess/ Christian Lamred/ Antonio Piccioni
2. Stefan Karlsson/ Joakim Arveskaer/ Andreas Jaderyd
3. Matteo Gaddoni/ Luca Medri/ Clay Collera
4. Mauro Mercuri/ Alessandro Damiano/ Edoardo Favorini
5. Lorenzo Apriani/ Roland Karlsson/ Paolo Mirabelli
T6. Fabio Sanna/ Fernando Brotugno/ Eleonora Imazio
T6. Luca Mazzucato/ Claudio Massaro/ Andrea Rimitori
8. Ramon Galliani/ Angelo Mancarella/ Carlo Perrone

1. Fabio Sanna/ Ele Imazio
2. Roland Karlsson/ Karolina Hagenbjoerk
3. Carlo Perrone/ Cristina Nicolardi
4. Jan Shreck/ Bianca Strunz
5. Angelo Mancarella/ Linda Toerngren
6. Luca Mazzucato/Silvia Caruso

1. Silvia Caruso
2. Linda Toerngren
3. Bianca Strunz
4. Cristina Nicolardi
5. Karolina Hagenbjoerk
6. Ele Imazio

Open Co-op Semi Pool A

1. Matteo Gaddoni/ Luca Medri/ Clay Collera
2. Florian Hess/ Christian Lamred/ Antonio Piccioni
3. Lorenzo Apriani/ Roland Karlsson/ Paolo Mirabelli
4. Ramon Galliani/ Angelo Mancarella/ Carlo Perrone
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5. Gery Nameth/ Balu Major/ Jan Shreck
6. Marcus Hein/ Kolja Hannemann/ Bianca Strunz
7. Davide Sanna/ Marco Sanna/ Ale Collera
8. Simone Italiano/ Stefano Belucci Sessa/ Michel Otte
9. Claudio Pietrinelli/ Cristina Nicolardi/ Fabrizio De Rossi

1. Fabio Sanna/ Fernando Brotugno/ Eleonora Imazio
2. Stefan Karlsson/ Joakim Arveskaer/ Andreas Jaderyd
3. Mauro Mercuri/ Alessandro Damiano/ Edoardo Favorini
4. Luca Mazzucato/ Claudio Massaro/ Andrea Rimitori
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5. Danilo Torzolini/ Claudio Cigna/ Filipo Cavalca
6. Gregory Lo-a-sjoe/ John Coxhead/ Joe McGrave
7. Linda Toerngren/ Karolina Hagenbjoerk/ Silvia Caruso
8. Markus Goetz/ Emanuele Faustini/ Dominick Weber
8. Rafaelle Pilla/ Paolo Cipolino/ Serge Marconi
9. Frank Lejeune/ Marc Pestotnik/ Alex Humphreys

Open Pairs Semis Pool A

1. Clay Collera/ Fabio Sanna
2. Lorenzo Apriani/ Roland Karlsson
3. Stefan Karlsson/ Joakim Arveskaer
4. Luca Mazzucato/ Claudio Massaro
5. Andrea Rimitori/ Andreas Jaderyd
6. Fernando Brotugno/ Mauro Mercuri
7. Claudio Cigna/ Antonio Piccioni
8. Eleonora Imazio/ Dominick Weber

1. Matteo Gaddoni/ Luca Medri
2. Florian Hess/ Christian Lamred
3. Carlo Perrone/ Angelo Mancarella
4. Gregory Lo-a-sjoe/ Edoardo Favorini
5. Bianca Strunz/ Jan Schreck
6. Alessandro Damiano/ Paolo Mirabelli
7. Sergio Arrighi/ Filipo Cavalca
8. Gery Nameth/ Balu Major

Pairs Prelim Pool A

1. Stefan Karlsson/ Joakim Arveskaer
2. Alessandro Damiano/ Paolo Mirabelli
3. Andrea Rimitori/ Andreas Jaderyd
4. Carlo Perrone/ Angelo Mancarella
5. Fernando Brotugno/ Mauro Mercuri
6. Bianca Strunz/ Jan Schreck
7. Claudio Cigna/ Antonio Piccioni
8. Sergio Arrighi/ Filipo Cavalca
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9. Marcus Hein/ Kolja Hannemann
10. Davide Sanna/ Marco Sanna
11. Frank Lejeune/ Michel Otte
12. Simone Italiano/ Stefano Belucci Sessa
13. Marc Pestotnik/ Alex Humphreys
14. Ale Berra/ Ale Collera
15. Rafaelle Pilla/ Paolo Cipolino

1. Matteo Gaddoni/ Luca Medri
2. Lorenzo Apriani/ Roland Karlsson
3. Gregory Lo-a-sjoe/ Edoardo Favorini
4. Clay Collera/ Fabio Sanna
5. Florian Hess/ Christian Lamred
6. Luca Mazzucato/ Claudio Massaro
7. Gery Nameth/ Balu Major
8. Eleonora Imazio/ Dominick Weber
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9. Danilo Torzolini/ Cristina Nicolardi
10. Markus Goetz/ Emanuele Faustini
11. John Coxhead/ Joe McGrave
12. Ramon Galliani/ Silvia Caruso
13. Fabrizio De Rossi/ Serge Marconi
14. Linda Toerngren/ Karolina Hagenbjoerk
15. Carlo Pierini/ Alessandro Provitali

Congratulations to all the finalists and the winners! And special congratulations to Simone Italiano who won a free trip for 2 from Kuwait Airways for a weekend in Paris.

Links:

Photos of the event:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/96694729@N00/pool/

Freestyle frisbee web sites:

http://www.fristail.it/ (Non-profit Association for Freestyle Frisbee in Italy)

http://freestyledisc.org// (The FPA is a non-profit, player run Association promoting freestyle frisbee around the world)

http://www.ciakkauakkateam.com/ ('Ciakka Uakka'Italian Freestyle Frisbee Team - available for shows)

http://www.freestyle-frisbee.com/ (freestyle-frisbee.com - news, instructions, photos and videos about freestyle)

http://www.shrednow.com/ (shrednow.com - online freestyle community)