Historic World Title Hanging in the Balance for Gabriel Medina
The penultimate stop on the 2014 Samsung Galaxy ASP World Championship Tour (WCT), the Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal, has been called on for round 1. Converging the world’s best surfers onto the sand-bottom barrels of Peniche’s Supertubos and with just two more contests left, the men's Title race could end there as the event could see a conclusion to this year’s exciting title race as current no.1 Gabriel Medina has the chance to claim his maiden World Title and become the first Brazilian ever to secure the surfing crown.
Only 20 years-old Gabriel Medina currently leads this world’s best surfers on the 2014 ASP World Championship Tour rankings, and is poised to make history as the first Brazilian title holder this coming week in Portugal. If achieved, Medina’s title clinching will mark the first time a 20-year-old has done so since 11-time ASP World Champion and international sporting icon Kelly Slater (USA), 42, achieved this in 1992.
Kelly Slater was the first 20 year old to win the prime surf event in 92'
The legendary freestyle windsurfing event on lake Neusiedl is back! Since 1998 the best Freestyle Windsurfers in the world travel down to the Austrian water sports capital to compete in the European Freestyle Pro Tour. This edition, taking place
between the 27th of April and the 1st of May, will be…
Standing in the way are six surfers with a mathematical chance of claiming this year’s world surfing crown: Kelly Slater (USA), Mick Fanning (AUS), Joel Parkinson (AUS), John John Florence (HAW), Taj Burrow (AUS) and Michel Bourez (PYF). Both Burrow and Bourez would have to win the remaining two events (Portugal and Pipeline) with Medina finishing 13th or worse to have a chance at the title.
“It’s such a great wave here, which I really like to surf. I’m excited to be here because I like to compete in Portugal but I definitely have some nerves coming into the event,” said Medina
Gabriel Medina is close to his biggest victory of his career
The Top 34 took on Supertubos starting this past Sunday, October 12. Get a taste of hollow tubes with the event teaser and watch LIVE daily at aspworldtour.com, Oct. 12-23.
The international top event this year is all about the new Olympic windsurfing class, foil windsurfing and wingfoiling. More than 300 world’s best windsurfers from 42 nations will compete in various foil classes on Lake Silvaplana.
The first of 16 GKA Kite World Tour events begins in Cape Verde this month.
Ten islands make up the archipelago of Cabo Verde which lies two hours south of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, due to their geographical location the islands are frequented with pumping swell and trade winds.
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