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The 2026 Womens Bodyboarding World Champ👑
Day 6 of the ArcelorMittal Wahine Bodyboarding Pro is in the bag, and the contest is still to be completed.
The world title has been decided. 👇
It's Here: Pique's New Caffeine-Free Afternoon Energy
I quit my afternoon coffee. Not because I wanted to — because I found something better.
You know that wall you hit every day around 2–3 PM? I used to just accept it as the cost of doing anything. Another coffee, a quick spike, then the crash — and somehow I'd still feel dehydrated by dinner.
Then I tried X·E Fountain, Pique's brand-new electrolyte energy drink, and I genuinely wasn't ready for how good "no crash" could feel.
No caffeine jitters. No 4 PM slump. Just clean, steady energy that actually hydrates me instead of draining me. It's built with a premium Vitamin B Complex for natural cellular energy, Magnesium Malate + Taurate for real focus, and a full electrolyte blend that makes it feel like a treat, not a chore.
The cucumber-celery-lime flavor is so crisp and refreshing — it's basically stolen my afternoon coffee slot completely.
The champion’s run 👑
Last year, the quarterfinals were where Namika Yamashita's world title slipped away. Beaten at that stage by Neymara Carvalho at this very Brazilian event, she watched Alexandra Rinder ride off with the crown and finished the season as runner up. Second again. So close it must have stung.
This year? The quarterfinals were all she needed.
Namika Yamashita is the 2026 IBC Open Women's World Champion. She sealed it on Friday at the ArcelorMittal Wahine Bodyboarding Pro in Jacaraípe, and here's the good part: she didn't have to win the event. She just had to reach the last 8. The math had been sitting in her favour all season.
She'd led the ranking from the front all year. Wins in the Maldives and Sintra, 6,000 points, nobody able to reel her in. All she had to do in Brazil was avoid an early exit.
She made it interesting anyway. Round 6 went down to the final seconds, in the rain, in messy surf, Namika scraping through with a 13.00. Then the quarterfinal against Portugal's Joana Schenker, 11.25 to 7.50, and it was done.
She said afterwards that “It hadn't quite sunk in yet…”
She becomes only the 3rd Japanese woman to win the Open crown, after Sari Ohhara and Ayaka Suzuki. Japan doesn't shout much about its bodyboarding, but the lineage runs deep, and Namika just added her name to it.
Spare a thought for Luna Hardman. The 20 year old Brazilian, riding on home sand, needed to win the event and hope Namika stumbled. Not likely, and Namika didn't. Luna then lost ine a 13.00 to 12.60 heartbreaker to 17 year old Alice Teotónio.
And the Wahine contest itself? Still live. With the world title settled, the event trophy is wide open, and Maylla Venturin is the last Brazilian standing, into the semis against that same Alice Teotónio.
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