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Australian Owen Wright has just won the seventh stage of the CT, the Tahiti Pro in perfect but slow conditions, breaking all day in Teahupoo. He beat his executioner in the final in last year's decider, Gabriel Medina.

Incredibly, the decision came when Medina overlooked Wright with four minutes left when he had priority and a shot was scored that was worth nine points.

The final score was 17,07 (9,17+7,90) to 14,83 (7,83+7,10).

“I can't be happier, Gabriel will always be the favourite, I found that wave and I did it, I'm working hard and I got it,” he said, clearly excited.

Wright deserved to take the crown from the start of the day, in his quarterfinal series, against Jadson André, he made an incredible perfect 10, he came down hanging and was positioned for a tube. He backed it up with a 9,07 and left André in the dust, who had added a not bad 16,67.

He then easily beat Jordy Smith (who needed to go through a series to be the leader) by 15,67 to 10,66.

On the other hand, Medina was very skillful in series with few waves, he scratched 11,77 to win without drama against Jeremy Flores first and then 11,16 to beat the young Seth Moniz and establish a final identical to last year's but with a different result.

Despite losing in the round of 16, with another poor result at Teahupoo, Filipe Toledo took the lead in the rankings. Jordy Smith came close, now second, and Kolohe is third. John John, who has not competed since Rio, is fifth in the world and is going for his Olympic hopes.

This is how the ranking was: