Reigning World Surfing Champion, John John Florence of Hawaii, moved to the top of the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) rankings on Saturday when he advanced to the quarter-finals of the Quiksilver Pro France in outstanding surfing conditions at La Graviere on the Bay of Biscay.
Cape Town Surfriders clinched the coveted Freedom Cup for the team accumulating the highest points across all divisions at the 2017 Billabong SA Junior Champs presented by BOS, which was completed in excellent one metre waves at the Lower Point in Jeffreys Bay today (Sunday).
An increase in swell at Jeffreys Bay was just what was required on a busy second day at the Billabong SA Junior Champs presented by BOS where surfers in eight different divisions produced exciting performances as they challenged for national titles and team points.
The Billabong SA Junior Champs presented by BOS, the country’s most prestigious annual surfing event for competitors aged 18-and-under, gets underway in the fabled high performance waves of the Lower Point in Jeffreys Bay on Wednesday and runs until Sunday 8 October.
The 20th annual champions in the Billabong Junior Series pres. by All Aboard Travel were crowned at Seal Point in Cape St Francis on Sunday after the fourth and final event in 2017 series was completed in highly contestable 1 – 1.5 metre waves and glassy conditions.
The opening rounds of the Billabong Junior Series presented by All Aboard Travel were completed in inconsistent but clean one metre waves fanned by strengthening offshore winds at Seal Point in Cape St Francis on Friday.
South Africa dropped out of the top 10 nations in the provisional rankings at the VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Japan on Thursday when nine of the 11 team members in contention at the beginning of the day were eliminated from the event.
The champions in the 20th annual Billabong Junior Series presented by All Aboard Travel will be crowned this weekend when the country’s best 18-and-under surfers take to the fabled waves of Seal Point in Cape St Francis to compete for prestige, rankings points and prize money.
The South African team posted a solid set of results on Day 4 of the VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Japan on Wednesday, with seven of the eight team members in action advancing to the next round of competition in their respective divisions.
Adin Masencamp (Strand) produced the best performance by a South Africa on Day 3 of the VISSLA ISA World Junior Surfing Championship, winning his Round 2 heat to become the only team member still in the Main Event stream of the world’s biggest event for surfers aged 18-and-under.