Sopelana Day 2 brings cool weather but hot action

posted by Terry McKenna on 22nd August 2008

Passing showers and squalling winds did not dampen the action at Sopelana beach on day 2 of the BBK Pro.

The day started with the WWT girls opening rounds and all of the top seeds in each heat made it into the Man-on-Man second round heats.

Soria Rocha (Brazil) set the standard in this round with the highest two-wave combination (12.75 points)

Other standouts included Unate Aguirre (Spain) Chiaki Okuyama (Japan) and current ratings leader Isabella Sousa (Brazil).

After only two events on the WWT the girls were eager to do battle so organizers decided to run straight into the second round heats. The all important round 4 heats featuring the Top 16 seeds was postponed until later in the afternoon in the hope that in incoming tide would provide more scoring potential.

The Womens round two heats were man on man and results were as follows.

Heat 1 Christiane KALE defeated Maria VIANA
Heat 2 Eunate AGUIRRE defeated Catarina SOUSA
Heat 3 Soraia ROCHA defeated Helouise BOURROUX
Heat 4 Isabella SOUSA defeated Naara CAROLINE
Heat 5 Jessica BECKER defeated Chiaki OKUYAMA
Heat 6 Neymara CARVALHO defeated Rita PIRES
Heat 7 Maylla VENTURIN defeated Natasha SAGARDIA
Heat 8 Lumar GUITTARD defeated Desiree KINASHI


In the Mens round four heats current ratings leader Uri Valadao (Brazil) opened his European campaign with a great victory over Deigo Cabrera (Canary Islands) eliminating Australians Mitch Rawlins and Dave Winchester in the process.

In heat 2 round 4 Mike Stewart was eliminated along with local rider Alex Sabastian at the hands of Yeray Martinez (Canary Islands) and Lucas Norgueira (Brazil).

Heat 3 saw defending champion Amaury Laverhne (Reunion) finish forth ahead of Brazilian Paulo Barcellos with Silvano Lorenco (Portugal) and David Perez moving into the man-on-man round.

Heat 4 Saw the Boys from Brazil battle it out for first with Luis Villar and Fabio Rodrigues eliminating Guilherme Tamega and Jorge Colomer.

All results can be found on the event site and watch it online live via the link at www.ibatour.com

The Sopelana BBK Pro is made possible by Coca-Cola, Arin, ElCorreo, Seland Beach, DEIA, Surfers Rule & www.onlybodyboard.com.

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