In La Bocana, Salvador beach (Central America) on the Pacific coast, Joan Duru, 32 years old, won in front of the Japanese Kagoa Igarashi, silver medalist, and another French, Jérémy Flores, in bronze.
The event, organized by the ISA, was the last opportunity to grab places for the Tokyo Olympics, the first to integrate surfing as a discipline.
Duru will not be on the trip to Japan, the French delegation is already complete with Jérémy Flores, Michel Bourez, Johanne Defay and Pauline Ado.
In the team event, the podium dominated by France is completed by Japan, in silver, and Portugal, in bronze.
In the women’s category, it was the Australian Sally Fitzgibbons who won the gold medal, ahead of the Portuguese Yolanda Sequeira and Teresa Bonvalot, who at the same time won their Olympic qualification.
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