World junior surfing challenge ends for South Africa
Team will have to head home without any medals.
South Africa’s challenge for honours at the 2015 VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championship ended on the penultimate day when team captain Shane Sykes and Sebastian Williams were eliminated in the repercharge rounds on Saturday.
The SA team’s hopes of clinching a medal in the Aloha Cup were also dashed when they were ousted in the semi-finals of the tag-team format event.
Starting in the U18 boys’ main event semi-finals, Sykes fell short of advancing directly to the last four when he placed third, just more than one point behind second placed Jake Marshall (USA), and dropped into the repercharge semis.
In another agonizingly close decision, Sykes missed out on taking his campaign into the final day of the event when he again finished third and exited the world’s biggest junior surfing event in equal ninth place overall, earning 500 points towards his team’s total.
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