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The top men’s freestyle kayakers in the world converged onto the Rock Island wave and aimed for the stars.  The heats were stocked with the best names and the action was of great international flavor with Peter Czonka from Czech, Nick Troutman and Adam Chapel from Canada and a host of Americans with the Jacksons, Wrights, Kirks and more aimed at taking the top 10 spots to make it to the semi finals tomorrow.

The first heat showed us all that the men were open for business with Csonka riding well with Martin Koll and Joakim Fontane from Catalonia riding very well.  Stephen Wright showed the most amplitude and racked up his traditional technical score.  The loops were plentiful but those with the more technical moves tended to top the charts.  The last heat was stocked to the gills with superstars, Nick Troutman, Eric Jackson, Dane Jackson and Stephen Wright and Brian Kirk.

For the second day in a row, Nick Troutman came through with a score of 1169 (combined top two of three rides), with Dane Jackson in second, Csonka in third, Adam Chappel in fourth and Stephen Wright in 5th.  The top ten go on to semis!

Allstars all filling up the top 3… 5 of them in the top 10.

Results are below:

Rank Name Run 1 Run 2 Run 3 Final Score
1 Nick Troutman #88 453 716 356 1169
2 Dane Jackson #19 528 305 596 1124
3 Peter Csonka #99 596 0 380 976
4 Adam Chappel #48 143 190 773 963
5 Stephan Wright #153 405 476 55 881
6 Martin Koll #69 203 423 400 823
7 Eric Jackson #64 508 50 300 808
8 Joaquim Fontane #98 193 293 440 733
9 Tim Bernard #91 403 30 280 683
10 Tomas Andrassy #35 513 140 50 653
11 Marcel Bloder #36 40 451 118 569
12 Clay Wright #1 166 378 105 544
13 Kazuya Matsungaga #101 250 276 180 526
14 Bryan Kirk #154 150 155 251 406
15 Thomas Yon #65 245 60 90 335
16 Akira Nakamura #22 160 166 113 326
17 James Bebbington #172 290 0 3 293
18 Konstantin Vasin #28 118 0 110 228
19 Bartosz Czauderna #5 0 160 56 216
20 Matt Anger #105 50 66 26 116