Sunday, 24 May, CASTRO (Italy): Jean-Baptiste Botti has been stripped of yesterday’s win in heat 1 of Runabout after being disqualified following a successful post-race protest against him by UAE rider Khalifa Belselah.

The protest claiming that Botti had cut the course between five and ten minutes into the race, was upheld by UIM Official and protest judge Petr Pylaev, after first listening to comments from Belselah and Botti, discussing the issue with the UIM Commissioner and OOD and studying video footage of the incident.

The outcome hands the win to Belselah, with Kuwait’s Yousef Al Abdulrazzaq and Qatar’s Thamer Al Darwish moving up to complete a Middle East lock out of the top three places.

Botti has protested the decision.

Results:

http://aquabike.net/results/2015/italy-castro