A thrilling finals day in Western Australia saw Michel Bourez (PYF) crowned winner of the Drug Aware Margaret River Pro, the second stop on the 2014 Samsung Galaxy ASP World Championship Tour (WCT).
The Tahitian powerhouse secured his first ever WCT win by defeating Josh Kerr (AUS) in an exciting final on super Sunday.
The victory places Bourez at number four in the ASP world rankings.Kerr finishes as runner up for the second year in a row.
Eleven-time ASP World Champion Kelly Slater (USA) was defeated by event winner Bourez in the semifinals. Slater dominated from the outset, blending a variety of impressive turns on a number of waves while Bourez struggled to find a rhythm.
In the dying minutes however, the momentum changed and the Tahitian lit up a righthander with Herculean power for a 9.37, the day’s highest singlewave score, and the win.
The next stop on the 2014 Samsung Galaxy ASP World Championship Tour will be the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach from April 16 – 27.
Following an incredible week of camaraderie and competition between the 32 national teams, the final day of the VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championship (WJSC) delivered great waves and exciting surfing performances. The competition officially closed after all the individual and team champions were crowned.
Hawaii is the new VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championship Gold Medal Team and winner of the Team Champion Trophy. The SA Junior Team placed eighth overall in Ecuador unfortunately not improving on their sixth place finish in 2013.
Not much should be read into that though, because there were individual performances that trumped a lot of what the 2013 team could muster.
Local surfers Shane Sykes finished in 25th place while Teal Hogg took a 16th place overall.
Check out www.isawjsc. com for all the results, highlights and news from the 2014 Vissla ISA World Junior Surfing Champs.
Team results: 1st Hawaii- 21,168, 2nd France – 20,872, 3rd Australia – 20,628, 4th USA- 18,418, 5th Brazil – 17,426, 6th Peru – 15,062, 7th Japan – 14,820, 8th South Africa – 14,618, 9th Portugal – 13,852, 10th New Zealand – 13,474.
Jaco Kapp
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