Guerrero, Erostarbe and Machado go for medals today at the youth world championship

The United States and Japan will fight for the title. Hawaii, Australia, France and Spain will seek to complete the team podium


November 4, 2018
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All photos except mentioned: ISA/Ben Reed/Sean Evans
Note presented by the International Surfing Association

Nine days of one of the largest and longest tournaments in history will come to an end today at noon in California when the last final of the day, the Boys Under 18 final, concludes at the Vissla ISA Junior World Championships.

Only three Spanish surfers made it to the final day: Jhonny Guerrero from Peru and Nadia and Lucía Machado from Spain, the first through the repechage and the last two through the calm of the main event.

After going through three rounds of the repechage on Friday, Guerrero got into two more deathmatches yesterday, passed them and will have to face one more today if he wants to secure a medal. The Peruvian will have to face local Cole Houshmand and the two losers of the main event final, which has South African Luke John Slijpen, Japanese Keanu Kamiyama and Jon Azuchi and local Taro Watanabe.

Basque Nadia Erostarbe will have to face Germany's Rachel Presti, Hawaii's Summer Macedo and Japan's Minami Nonaka, with one more chance if she loses in the final of the repechage, which already includes Keala Tomoda from Hawaii and Neis Lartigue from France.

Erostarbe doesn't seem to be afraid of anything in this World Cup. Today they will have two chances to qualify for the grand final of the tournament.
Lucia Machado has been quietly making it through all her heats and is now in the final of the main event and has two chances to guarantee herself a medal. Photo: FESurf

Meanwhile, the Canary Islander Lucía Machado will have to overcome her series against Luana Silva from Hawaii, Shino Matsuda and Sara Wakita from Japan, or, if she loses, win and go through to the final of the repechage in which two locals have already advanced: Samantha Sibley and Caitlin Simmers.

At the team level, the fight for first place is between the United States and Japan, with their maximum scoring potential reaching 8618 and 8373 respectively, and the closest is Hawaii with 6545.

The fight will be tough between those fighting for first place and then those who will decide the other places on the team podium; Australia is in fourth with 5814 and France is in fifth with 5288. Spain is very close with 5218.

Everything will be decided in these 25-minute finals.

The only title that was already decided was the Aloha Cup, which was won by the United States team, which beat France by a significant margin (55,95 to 50,67). Hawaii came in third and Japan in fourth.

At 7:45 a.m. California time, the first heat will go into the water and the order will be as follows:

After some 500 heats, with 350 surfers from 44 countries, these 12 heats will conclude another marathon event.
Partial team positions for the final day.
Peruvian Guerrero lived up to his name and in the last two days he went through five very difficult series to reach the final of the repechage.
The Mexican dream named Alan Cleland lost yesterday, Saturday, in a close series in which he was less than a point away from finishing second. This little kid is going to be the talk of the town.
Chilean hope Noel de la Torre was unable to make it through his heats on Saturday. The 13-year-old left everything on the court and leaves California with a very respectable ninth place in the world.
This Chilean is going to make people talk, 13 years old, good at surfing, good competitor... The table is set, now he has to know how to enjoy it.
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