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Friday 23 September 1230: Heading into the final day, Australia and Portugal are the favourites for the women's slot for Paris 2024

Australia and Portugal closed the penultimate day of the ISA World Surfing Games with two of three competitors still alive and will head into the final day with a better chance of taking home the extra slot for Paris 2024.

While Australia leads the women's team rankings 2335 to 2260, Portugal has the advantage that one of its competitors, Teresa Bonvalot, is already a step ahead in the main event final.

The Australians, for their part, are in the 9th round of the play-offs and face, in a duel of enormous consequences, the Portuguese Yoalanda Hopkins and the German Rachel Presti.

Separated by just 75 points, the duel between Australia and Portugal will be decided on the pitch, without any calculator involved.

With one competitor still alive in the event and good supporting scores, the women's teams from the United States, France and Germany still have a mathematical chance of securing the extra ticket to Paris 2024.

Basically these three nations must hope that the worst possible scenario happens to Australia and Portugal and the best possible scenario happens to them.

These are the series that remain ahead and this is the partial position for women's teams:

Main Event Final: 

 

Playoff Round 9:

Partial ranking for women's teams:

Friday, September 23, 12 - The United States leads and eliminates Brazil's chances of achieving the men's extra slot in Paris 2024

Brazil no longer has a chance of winning the extra slot awarded at the ISA World Surfing Games being held in Huntington Beach, according to calculations made by DUKE. The defeat of their last two competitors, Miguel and Samuel Pupo, left them out of contention.

On the other hand, the locals from the United States lead the race with the final day ahead and if they were to have the worst possible scenario (that Kolohe Andino and Nat Young lose in one go), they would still be adding a reasonable score to fight for the precious place that is presumed to go to Kelly Slater, a specialist in Teahupoo, where Olympic surfing will take place in 2024.

The countries that still have a mathematical chance of overtaking the United States on Saturday are Indonesia, Portugal, Japan and Australia.

Portugal and Australia need Nat Young and Kolohe Andino to finish as low as sixth and eighth respectively and Kanoa Igarashi and Jackson Baker to finish second or better in the event.

Japan, meanwhile, is doing a little better, needing a miracle if the Americans lose and with Kanoa Igarashi placing third or better.

Indonesia, with two competitors in the 11th round of the repechage, Ketut Agus and Rio Waida, have a better chance, basically needing to overcome the Americans on the final day.

That play-off series 11 will be key to the final because it has the two Indonesians, along with Kolohe Andino and Jackson Baker. If the two Indonesians lose there, they will no longer have any chances for an extra slot. If Jackson Baker loses, Australia's hopes will be gone, but if Kolohe loses, the United States will be dependent on Nat Young.

This is the partial ranking by team now:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Friday, September 23, 11am - Lucca Mesinas and Daniella Rosas are one step away from the grand final and the medals

Peruvians Lucca Mesinas and Daniella Rosas made it to the final of the main event and are one step away from the grand final and the medals at the ISA World Surfing Games 2022.

In addition to displaying their characteristic talent, both were excellent strategists in a very inconsistent sea.

Mesinas waited until there were just under two minutes left to surf the only wave of note in his heat, a 9 that he earned after combining several backside maneuvers. Behind him came CT Kolohe Andino who failed to complete an aerial on the shore and left no doubt that the classification was Peruvian. In first place in the heat was Guilherme Fonseca from Portugal.

 

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The main event final will feature the two of them alongside Kanoa Igarashi and Nat Young.

Daniella Rosas, meanwhile, made it through with just 4,5 in an even more inconsistent sea, sending CT Sally Fitzgibbons to the repechage and Portuguese standout Yolanda Hopkins. Also from Portugal, Teresa Bonvalot advanced first.

The main event final will feature these two alongside Kirra Pinkerton of the United States and Pauline Ado of France.

 

Thursday, September 22, 5:30PM: Brazil and USA battle for the extra slot in men; Australia and France lead in women 

With Day 6 of the ISA World Surfing Games coming to a close, Brazil is leading the fight for the men's extra slot at Paris 2024, with the United States close behind. The women's extra slot is hotly contested between Australia and France, who both have three competitors still in contention.

Both Brazil and the United States lost their first male member today: Griffin Colapinto fell first in the 7th round of the repechage and then it was Jadson André's turn; the latter's 450 points versus the former's 390 are what give the green and yellow team the advantage.

The situation is interesting for the definition of the men's fight because although Brazil leads, the United States has its two members alive in the main event and Brazil has them in the repechage.

Close behind are Japan and Indonesia, who also still have two surfers left in the event and a chance to take home the extra spot.

In fifth place is Portugal, with only one surfer in the tournament, with no mathematical chance of achieving victory as a men's team.

Here's how the main event semis turned out:

And so the repechage:

 

At the women's level, the fight is between Australia and France with potential perfect scores and Portugal and the United States, who still have two surfers in the tournament.

Precisely, these last two countries have two surfers left in the main event and Australia and France only have one.

The main event semifinals and the repechage matches were as follows:

And the ones from the play-off, like this:

 

The partial top 10 by teams is as follows:

 

 

Thursday, September 22, 10:30am - Daniella Rosas two steps away from medals in Huntington

Peru's Daniella Rosas won her Round 5 heat of the main event and moved within two steps of medals at the ISA World Surfing Games.

Rosas maintained a good position in her heat against Gabriela Bryan, Sophie McCulloch and Anat Lelior but finished with a time of 7,17, which put her ahead. She came in first with 12,94, leaving Bryan in second, McCulloch in third and Lelior in fourth.

Now she will face Teresa Bonvalot, Sally Fitzgibbons and one more rival who is still waiting.

Thursday, September 22, 10am: Peruvian Lucca Mesinas made it into the top six of the event after winning his heat against Jackson Baker, Leonardo Fioravanti and Samuel Pupo. He achieved this with the best score and the best wave (9,57+7,6).

He will now face Guilherme Fonseca of Portugal and Kolohe Andino of the United States.

The Peruvian is two steps away from the grand final if he remains in the main event.

The men's semis of the main event were as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thursday, September 22, 7am: France, Portugal and the United States are the only three countries in the ISA World Surfing Games that have all of their members still alive in the ISA World Surfing Games, going into Day 6 of competition.

But since this matters little when it comes to the extra places for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games that this event awards, the men's and women's team rankings reflect the following.

Men: In addition to France, Portugal and the United States, Brazil and Japan have all their competitors alive with the Brazilian advantage that all three are in the main event.

Women: In addition to France, Portugal and the United States, Australia, Canada and Germany have three competitors remaining in the event. Canada, France, Portugal, the United States and Australia each have two competitors remaining in the main event.