Cover photo: Pablo Jimenez

Three of the eight round 1 heats of the men's shortboard category in Santiago 2023 surfing will be clashes between surfers from the same country, as can be seen according to the calculations made by DUKE based on the technical manual of the test and the seedings of each athlete.

Brazilians Krystian Kymmerson and Marcos Correa, Argentines Lele Usuna and Franco Radziunas and Panamanians Oli Camarena and Isauro Elizondo will face each other in round 1 of the tournament.

In any case, since the tournament is double elimination, none of them will be left out of the championship at that stage.

Those who lose will go to a first round of play-offs that will make the crossovers not by seeding but by series, that is, the 1 of the 2st will go against the 1 of the 2nd, the 2 of the 2rd against the 3 of the 2th and so on.

Below are the round 1 shortboard series:

Round 1 – Men's Shortboard
S1: 3 vs 14: Miguel Tudela (PER) vs JJ López (VEN)
S2: 6 vs 11: Krystian Kymmerson (BRA) vs Marcos Correa (BRA)
S3: 7 vs 10: Leandro Usuna (ARG) vs Franco Radziunas (ARG)
S4: 2 vs 15: Lucca Mesinas (PER) vs Guillermo Satt (CHI)
S5: 1 vs 16: Alan Cleland (MEX) vs Manuel Selman (CHI)
S6: 8 vs 9: Isauro Elizondo (PAN) vs Jean Carlos Oli Camarena (PAN)
S7: 5 vs 12: Sebastián Williams (MEX) vs Óscar Urbina (CRC)
S8: 4 vs 13: Cody Young (CAN) vs Francisco Bellorin (VEN)

Round 1 – Women’s Shortboard
S1: 3 vs 14: Leilani McGonagle (CRC) vs Dominic Barona (ECU)
S2: 6 vs 11: Silvana Lima (BRA) vs Regina Pioli (MEX)
S3: 7 vs 10: Chelsea Tuach (BAR) vs Isabella Gómez (COL)
S4: 2 vs 15: Sol Aguirre (PER) vs Estela Lopez (CHI)
S5: 1 vs 16: Tatiana Weston Webb vs Jessica Anderson (CHI)
S6: 8 vs 9: Lucía Indurain (ARG) vs Sanoa Olin (CAN)
S7: 5 vs 12: Candelaria Reano (NIC) vs Ornella Pellizzari (ARG)
S8: 4 vs 13: Daniella Rosas (PER) vs Nataly Bernold (CRC)

Round 1 - Men's Longboard
S1: 1vs5vs9: Carlos Bahia (BRA) vs Julian Schweizer (URU) vs Agustin Cedeno (PAN)
S2: 2vs6vs7: Piccolo Clemente (PER) vs Anthony Flores (CRC) vs Rafael Cortez (CHI)
S3: 3vs4vs8: Martin Perez (ARG) vs Cole Robins (USA) vs Amado de Jesus Alvarado (SAL)

Round 1 – Women’s Longboard
S1: 1vs5vs9: Maria Fernanda Reyes (PER) vs Lia Reyes Diaz (CRC) vs Iana Ramirez (PUR)
S2: 2vs6vs7: Chloe Calmón (BRA) vs Sindy Portillo (SAL) vs Samantha Wilson (CHI)
S3: 3vs4vs8: Kaitlin Mikkelsen (USA) vs Liv Stokes (CAN) vs Inés Beisso (URU)

Round 1 – Men’s SUP Surf
S1: 1vs5vs9: Luis Diniz (BRA) vs Finn Spencer (CAN) vs Gabriel Salazar (CHI)
S2: 2vs6vs7: Zane Schweitzer (USA) vs Max Torres (PUR) vs Franco Faccin (ARG)
S3: 3vs4vs8: Felipe Rodriguez (MEX) vs Tamil Martino (PER) vs Jose Ruiz Avilez (CRC)

Round 1 – Women’s SUP Surfing
S1: 1vs5vs9: Lucia Cosoleto (ARG) vs Vania Torres (PER) vs Maria Jose Lagos (CHI)
S2: 2vs6vs7: Aline Adisaka (BRA) vs Catherine Temple (CAN) vs Xiomara Bowen (ECU)
S3: 3vs4vs8: Isabella Gómez (COL) vs Candice Appleby (USA) vs Josselyn Alaby (SAL)

Meanwhile, in longboard and in men's and women's SUP Surfing, the first two in each series of three people will advance to round 2 of the main event and the third will meet in a single repechage series 1 in which only the third will be eliminated.

The winners of that playoff round will then face the losers of Round 2 of the main event.

See below for all the progressions after round 1 which is written above:

SHORTBOARD WOMEN AND MEN: 

LONGBOARD AND SUP SURF LADIES AND MEN: