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The Argentine Surfing Association has defined the team that will be seeking the world title and qualification for the World Beach Games and the Pan American Games in Santiago 2023 at the Surf City El Salvador ISA World Surfing Games.

One of the new features, if you will, is that the young talent Franco Radziunas, who finished the Pan American Games in Panama in seventh position, has joined the starting team.

The six Argentines who will compete in El Salvador, according to information provided to DUKE by the president of the ASA, Freddy Tórtora, are:

Men
Leandro Usuna
Santiago Muniz
Franco Radziunas

Women
Lucia Indurain
Ornella Pellizzari
Coco Cianciarulo

Argentina finished 10th overall in the team standings at the 2022 World Cup in Huntington Beach. Meanwhile, in El Salvador 2021, it finished the tournament in a very good seventh place.

Two of its members have each won this event twice, Santiago Muñiz won in 2011 and 2018 and Lele Usuna in 2014 and 2016.