CT stars confirmed their place at this year's World Surfing Games
John John, Medina, Toledo, Ferreira, Gilmore, Andino, Smith, among others, placed their names among the representatives of their country. If they do not participate, they cannot go to Tokyo 2020
CT athletes have confirmed their participation in this year's World Surfing Games, which will be held in Miyazaki, Japan, from September 7 to 15, the ISA reported in a press release sent yesterday.
According to the qualification manuals, the three who were first in their countries in the CT had to go to Japan if they wanted to qualify for Tokyo.
Faced with this, the most important names in the CT gave their positive vote, regardless of the fact that the tournament will not be the one that qualifies them for Tokyo 2020 (for them it will be this year's CT itself).
In this regard, the following confirmed their participation:
Australia
Men: Ryan Callinan, Julian Wilson, Owen Wright
Women: Stephanie Gilmore, Sally Fitzgibbons, Nikki Van Dijk
Brazil
Men: Italo Ferreira, Filipe Toledo, Gabriel Medina
Women: Tatiana Weston-Webb, Silvana Lima
Costa Rica
Women: Hennessy Breeze
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France
Men: Jeremy Flores, Michel Bourez, Joan Duru
Women: Johanne Defay
Italy
Men: Leonardo Fioravanti
Japan
Men: Kanoa Igarashi
New Zealand
Men: Richard Christie
Women: Paige Hareb
South Africa
Men: Jordy Smith
United States
Men: John John Florence, Kolohe Andino, Conner Coffin
Women: Caroline Marks, Carissa Moore, Courtney Conlogue
The national teams will be made up of three women and three men.
The event will not serve as a qualifier for the Americas, but it will for Asia, Africa, Europe and Oceania (Lima 2019 will qualify the Americans).
“These World Surfing Games have everything to be the most competitive and certainly the highest profile in the history of this event that began in 1964. The format of the event is open to all national surfing teams. It is totally universal, in the full spirit of Olympism,” said Fernando Aguerre, ISA president about the new development.
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