Intro:

Great Britain's Aaron Hadlow wins the Red Bull 'King of the Air' title in Cape Town, South Africa on Sunday (15th February).

Script:

Beautiful conditions greeted 24 of the world's best big air kiteboarders as they hit the water and the skies in Cape Town's Big Bay to fight it out for the Red Bull 'King of the Air' 2015 title.

Facing Jesse Richman of the USA and Dutch 'boarders Kevin Langeree, and Jerrie van de Kop in the final, the capacity crowd watched on as Aaron Hadlow pulled out all the stops to win the title and be crowned king.

Great Britain's Hadlow was solid and consistent throughout the competition and easily had the performance of the day, landing two massive 'megaloop KGBs' twice during the semi finals and finals to claim the top spot on the podium

Defending champ Kevin Langeree started strong, showing no ill-effect from the eight stitches in his hand from a cut sustained in training earlier in the week.

For a long time it looked like he was going to defend his title but eventually finished second.

Jerrie van der Kop was in the hunt throughout the heat, and laid it all out on the line for a well-deserved third.

Hadlow was also awarded the 'Mystic Move of the Day' for his 'megaloop KGB'.

SOUNDBITE: (English) Aaron Hadlow, Red Bull 'King of the Air' 2015:

"Yeah, I am feeling real good. What an event. I mean, we waited all this time and we finally got the conditions that we want out here. For me, never had this title..have had many other ones but this is the one that is..it has just always deceived me and I have never ended up with it so for me to go out there, here in Cape Town as well. It's a place where I come every year. I know the conditions and I knew I had a good chance but you never know how it is going to go and once I was out there I was just full adrenalin. Just go for it, let's see what happens and I managed to pull some pretty sick moves. So, I am real happy right now."

It wasn't all bad for runner-up Langeree. He claimed the 'biggest air of the day' with 13.5 metres.