Friday, 23 May: With still two weeks to go the eagerly anticipated Grand Prix of Italy and the Aquabike Music Festival (AMF) in Milan on 5-8 June, promoter Aquabike Promotion has revealed a massive interest and record entry.

With 82 riders from 17 countries already registered it means that starting places in all categories, Runabout and Ski GP1 and Freestyle are at a premium and will be hotly contested, with the need for pre-qualifying in Runabout and Ski to determine those that will go through to compete for World Championship and World Ranking points and GP title.

The entry highlights the rise and rise and the growing stature of the UIM-ABP tour, a view backed Portugal’s Ski GP1 ace Tiago Sousa. 'The level of entry in all the categories is very high. We have many Champions, the best riders in the World and the competition is an incredible standard,' he said. 'The event weekends are very very good. There is no better Championship, no better competition. This is the best in the World.'

Highlighting the ‘best in the world’ tag is the splattering of World Champions - not to mention European and National Champions - across the categories that will line up in Milan; in Runabout Cyrille Lemoine, Francois Medori, Mattia Fracasso, Teddy Pons, in Ski Mickael and Jeremy Poret, Alberto Monti, Ludo Caumont and in Freestyle the Florjancic brothers Rok and Nac and Valerio Calderoni.

For further information about the Aquabike Music Festival visit: amfevent.com