Gabriel surfed a tube in his first heat in Pipeline.
AT decision of WCT, champions started well
***Gabriel Medina and Mick Fanning won heats in Pipeline e advanced to Round3. Toledo and Mineirinho will dispute the Recap
The decision of the champion of 2015 season of WCT, the World Circuit of Surfing, finally started yesterday after great expectation in Pipeline, in Hawaii. And, among the candidates to lift the cup, the Brazilian Gabriel Medina and the Australian Mick Faning did well in debut. By the way, Filipe Toledo and Adriano de Souza, the Mineirinho, were defeated and now will have to dispute the recap.
At Round 1, Medina scored 12.66 points in his two better waves and defeated the Hawaiian Keanu Asing(7.84) and the Australian Wade Carmichael(3.73).
With the result, the current champion advanced into Round 3, as well as Mick Fanning. The leader of the season and three times world champion scored 14.60 and defeated the Hawaiians Bruce Irons(14.33) and Sebastian Zietz(4.37). So also avoid having to compete the recap.
Filipe Toledo and Adriano de Souza, also postulants to the title, did not do the same. Both were defeated in their heats and will have to pass the first fireproof.
Toledo took the second position at fifth heat after being defeated by the Australian Jamie O'Brien. The Brazilian scored 7.84 points against 8.06 of the adversary. The American Kolohe Andino finished in third.
Mineirinho also took the second , scored 7.23 points at heat 4. The winner was Michel Bourez, from Tahiti, with 9.33. Jack Robinson(AUS)did 5.06.
Untill the close of this edition, the Round 1 had not been finalized yet.
Australian is out of the stage
One of the six candidates to WCT title in 2015, the Australian Owen Wright had to withdraw from competition in Pipeline. On Wednesday while he was training to the decision of World Circuit in Hawaii, the fifth position in the ranking suffered a bad fall in a wave.
When he was taken to the local hospital, was found that Wright suffered a concussion(when someone hits the head hard), besides a small bleeding in the brain. Wright still inmate. He was replaced by the Hawaiian Mason Ho in the competition
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