Désaxé World Ride

The fifth edition of the Désaxé World Ride took place in Grenoble, France, on 27-29 June 2014. The competition included Classic, Battle and Speed Slalom. This event was a part of the 8th edition of the DéSaXé World Ride festival, organized by the association Gliss' Events in partnership with national and international associations: WSSA, FFRS, Commission skateboard and ISSA. Désaxé World Ride it's not only a high level competition but also a great festival for all funs of the urban sport.

Speed Slalom Women

Zoe Granjon (Fra, #4) got a triple victory of this event. She won the Speed Slalom final against Tiphaine Bourbon (Fra, #20), who performed the best qualification time (5.423 sec) but ended up second. Marie Escriva (Fra, #115) took the third place. Perrine Chaubard (Fra, #34) finished fourth. 

WOMEN'S TOP-4:

1. Granjon Zoe (Fra)

2. Bourbon Tiphaine (Fra)

3. Escriva Marie (Fra)

4. Chaubard Perrine (Fra)

Speed Slalom Men

Lorenzo Guslandi (Ita, #18) won the Speed Slalom Final. Alan Rayer (Fra, #39), who performed the best qualification time (4.526 sec), ended up second. Romain Lebois (Fra, #8) took the third place. Hannes Van Overloop (Bel, #109) finished fourth, his best result so far. 

MEN'S TOP-4:

1. Guslandi Lorenzo (Ita)

2. Rayer Alan (Fra)

3. Lebois Romain (Fra)

4. Van Overloop Hannes (Bel)

Women’s Freestyle Battle

The favorite of the competition, Zoe Granjon (Fra, #5) easily won the Battle Final.  She was leading for three runs as well as the Last Trick. She showed good runs with high level tricks (back footgun wheeling, toe seven...) and combos plus good freestyle. The main fight was for the 2nd place between Chloe Arbona (Fra, #53) and Sara Masi (Ita, #28). Chloe showed many good tricks (Footgun wheeling for 4 cones, toe seven for 3 cones) and her last trick was korean spin on 10 cones. Sara did some good tricks as well (chicken leg, foot gun, kazak spin) but failed some of them and she didn't finish her tricks in her last run. Her last trick was the same as Chloe's one but not good enough to beat Chloe who finally ended up second. Sara took the third place. Margaux Allet (Fra, #153) made a good performance but she was not strong enough on her runs to compete with other girls and finished fourth. 

WOMEN'S TOP-4:

1. Granjon Zoe (Fra)

2. Arbona Chloe (Fra)

3. Masi Sara (Ita)

4. Allet Margaux (Fra)

Men’s Freestyle Battle

The main fight was for the first place between Romain Lebois (Fra, #2) and Lorenzo Guslandi (Ita, #11). They were quite close to each other so only the last trick made a difference. Romain made difficult combos (special to daynight for both sides, one foot special to special intern…), high level tricks and good freestyle. His last trick was an incredible combo - christie wheeling to special for 10 cones. Lorenzo made good tricks (internal shift, opposite shift, spin to normal shift, chicken, toe shift, toe seven) but  failed his last trick. The current world number 2, Romain Lebois, finally won the Battle final. Lorenzo finished second. Nathan Menard (Fra, #36) took the third place, with good tricks but not enough to fight for a better place. Alan Rayer (Fra, #89) ended up fourth.

MEN'S TOP-4:

1. Lebois Romain (Fra)

2. Guslandi Lorenzo (Ita)

3. Menard Nathan (Fra)

4. Rayer Alan (Fra)

Women's Classic

Zoe Granjon (Fra, #5) got one more victory. She made a good technical run and won the Classic competition without any doubts. Sara Masi (Ita, #28) took the second place.  With her improvised run she were matching the music but missing some big tricks. Chloe Arbona (Fra, #53) ended up third. 

WOMEN'S TOP-3:

1. Granjon Zoe (Fra)

2. Masi Sara (Ita)

3. Arbona Chloe (Fra)

Men's Classic

Romain Lebois (Fra, #2) and Lorenzo Guslandi (Ita, #11) repeated their places from the Battle, taking the 1st and 2nd places in Classic respectively. Ambroise Nicolao (Fra, #60) took the third place.

MEN'S TOP-3:

1. Lebois Romain (Fra)

2. Guslandi Lorenzo (Ita)

3. Nicolao Ambroise (Fra)

Check the full results here...