{"id":114358,"date":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetskiworld.stage3.econtentsys.gr\/uncategorized\/12027\/"},"modified":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:00:00","slug":"12027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/12027\/","title":{"rendered":">Reiterer reports from UIM Championship in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday, 12 June, OTRANTO (Italy): Tens-of-thousands of spectators lined the terraces and rocks around Otranto Harbour to see a spectacular climax to the Grand Prix of Italy, round 1 of the UIM-ABP Aquabike Class Pro World Championship. In Ski GP1 Austria\u0092s Kevin Reiterer and race 1 winner Nacho Armillas enjoyed a thrilling opening four laps, Spain\u0092s Armillas leading and fending off two huge lunges up the inside by the champion. But the pressure told on the Spaniard, dropping the bike on lap 4 and losing 20 seconds and places to Jeremy Poret and Stian Schjetlein, that he was unable to make up. Reiterer\u0092s win today and fourth in heat 1 tied him on 38 points with Armillas, the heat 2 win affording him overall victory and the title, with Poret completing the podium with two second places. \u0093The weekend didn\u0092t start out too well but we made the most of what we had,\u0094 said the defending champion. \u0093It was a fantastic fight with Nacho. I knew had to up my pace and we made some small changes to the bike. But I knew I had to give 110 per cent and try to force Nacho out of his comfort zone and into a mistake. That\u0092s what happened and I took advantage of it.\u0094<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday, 12 June, OTRANTO (Italy): Tens-of-thousands of spectators lined the terraces and rocks around Otranto Harbour to see a spectacular climax to the Grand Prix of Italy, round 1 of the UIM-ABP Aquabike Class Pro World Championship. In Ski GP1 Austria\u0092s Kevin Reiterer and race 1 winner Nacho Armillas enjoyed a thrilling opening four laps, Spain\u0092s Armillas leading and fending off two huge lunges up the inside by the champion. But the pressure told on the Spaniard, dropping the bike on lap 4 and losing 20 seconds and places to Jeremy Poret and Stian Schjetlein, that he was unable to make up. Reiterer\u0092s win today and fourth in heat 1 tied him on 38 points with Armillas, the heat 2 win affording him overall victory and the title, with Poret completing the podium with two second places. \u0093The weekend didn\u0092t start out too well but we made the most of what we had,\u0094 said the defending champion. \u0093It was a fantastic fight with Nacho. I knew had to up my pace and we made some small changes to the bike. But I knew I had to give 110 per cent and try to force Nacho out of his comfort zone and into a mistake. That\u0092s what happened and I took advantage of it.\u0094","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114359,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114358\/"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post\/"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1\/"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments\/?post=114358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114358\/revisions\/"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114359\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/?parent=114358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/?post=114358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jetskiworld.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/?post=114358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}