One hundred and eighty surfers are taking part in the Rip Curl pro Anglet QS 3000 surfing event which will take place on the Sables d’Or beach, between Tuesday August 22nd and Sunday August 27th. It is, ahead of Lacanau (QS 1,000), the most important competition in France and one of the most significant in Europe.
La World Surf League…
One hundred and eighty surfers are taking part in the Rip Curl pro Anglet QS 3000 surfing event which will take place on the Sables d’Or beach, between Tuesday August 22nd and Sunday August 27th. It is, ahead of Lacanau (QS 1,000), the most important competition in France and one of the most significant in Europe.
The World Surf League, an American company that organizes professional competitions on a global scale, has divided the surfing planet into seven regions: Africa, Asia, Australia-Oceania, Hawaii, North America, South America and Europe. The challenge for surfers who access the Qualifying Series is to take the extra step to join the Challenger Series, a narrow gateway to the Championship Tour, where the elite of surfing evolves and where places are also very expensive.
Kauli Vaast Olympic
Winner in 2018 and 2022, Gatien Delahaye will be present again, as will Maxime Huscenot, who managed to join the Championship tour, but failed to pass the mid-season stage and returned to the Challengers Series circuit.
We will also see Kauli Vaast, also in the Challengers Series, who has just arrived from his native island of Tahiti, where he was a quarter-finalist in the Sisheido Tahiti pro. He has already obtained his place in the French surfing team to compete in the Olympic Games in 2024, the events of which will take place in Teahupoo. “To participate in the Olympic Games at home, once again in front of my family and all my friends to carry me, is a real dream. I will do everything to achieve this”, he confided last year to “Sud Ouest”, when he participated in the 2022 edition of the Rip Curl pro Anglet. It is now done.
Pauline Teen at home
Among the women, Vahiné Fierro, also already qualified for the French team for the Olympic Games, will not be present. Like Kauli Vaast, she got her ticket to the Olympics at the 2023 ISA World Championship in El Salvador. She took the place from Angloe Pauline Ado. The licensee of the Anglet Surf Club, who will be present from Tuesday, did not hide her disappointment after this failure.
She still has a chance to join the tricolor Olympic surfing team, if at the next ISA Worlds, in February and March 2024 in Puerto Rico, France finishes best female nation. An additional non-nominative quota would then be allocated and it would be up to the French Surfing Federation to allocate it. With her rich track record and her experience, Pauline Ado, who participated in the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, would then have significant assets to be designated.
the night too
The other big meeting of this week of surfing will take place on Saturday August 26 from 9 p.m., Golden Sands beach with the Caraïbos night surf, presented by Rip Curl. This is a meeting specific to Anglet and which has forged an international reputation, by offering a nocturnal competition with boards equipped with luminous LEDs. This offers a one-of-a-kind spectacle.
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