After a long day of championship in El Salvador, Angelo Lozano, from Mexico, managed crowned Champion of the seventh stop in the ALAS Tour. Lozano had to overcome seven complicated rounds to get his first victory in the Open category.

His compatriot, Patrick Gonzales imposed ahead of the leader in Longboard while the Venezuelan, Maria Eugenia Rojas and Francisco Bellorín, earned first place in a surprising heats of Woman and Junior, respectively.

Goffy vs. Regular

Meanwhile, Jason Torres (CRI) and Angelo Lozano (MEX), exceeded round to round to the greatest surfers of Latin America and the Caribbean. Both competitors got their first or second place since the beginning of the championship and with the passing of his heats, surprised everyone in every maneuver done.

Jason eliminated from the competition at Sebastian Alarcon (PER), Magnum Martinez (VEN) and Beto Mariano (BRA) in the eighth, quarter and semi finals, as did Angelo Lozano with Martin Passeri (ARG), Rafael Pereyra (VEN) and Jesus Chacon (VEN), to dispute a very complicated final.

Although the conditions weren’t appropriate, these athletes get almost perfect waves were scarce and the points that defined the champion of this stop. In twenty-five minutes, one of the competitors was crowned as the absolute winner in this category.

With 8 points, Angelo Lozano began leading the heat, however, the Costa Rican, Jason Torres, managed to maneuver in two waves giving significant scores. However, the Mexican managed 9 points in his next wave, making it unattainable a few minutes to complete the series.

Angelo knew that nothing was said until the end of the heat was so quiet that lasted all the time. "I tried to relax throughout the heat, I knew that the wave Jason needed was quite high (9 points) but nothing was said leading up to, he is a very good competitor and could have achieved such a score," said local Puerto Escondido . Moreover, he added that it was very difficult maneuvers when you give back to the wave but thanked Ernesto Nunes, as he learned of many of the techniques he know.

It’s the fourth year of Angelo Lozano on the Tour and first in the Open category. He confesses that what was more exciting moment was when his friends carry up to the podium and celebrate with him his great victory.

Bellorín locks in Junior

The Venezuelan Bellorin achieved a victory in the Junior category. The fight against Jair Perez of Costa Rica was fairly evenly. Francisco "Lolo" Bellorín achieved a final score of 14.33 while Jair earned a 14.27. With this victory, Lolo is imposed and obtained advantage in this category.

Excited by this victory, the young Venezuelan said: "Even I do not believe that I won again, I’m very happy and excited. Unfortunately, I didn’t manage to reach the Open final, but it would be a dream to become champion in both categories. "

Thrilling first win

It’s the first year of Maria Eugenia Rojas, her first competition of ALAS and achieves imposed by great competitors. The Venezuelan, just 19 years, positioned at the top of the Woman final where they competed against Agostina Pellizari (ARG), Nadja de Col (PER) and Jessica Anderson (CHI)

This new competitor of the ALAS Tour said that she came to El Salvador with the idea of winning at Woman. "Before I came, I promised myself to win and train all I could to get a good position," also added that the waves in Venezuela are very similar and that also helped a lot.

On the other hand, the current leader of the Woman ranking, Agostina Pellizari said that despite the injuries that took the early days in El Salvador and the few waves that were presented in the series, did what she could. "We all know that this sport is luck and skill of the competitor, I didn’t do a good selection of waves and Maria Eugenia doing amazing maneuvers in which it succeeded. Now I only can prepare for the next ALAS in Venezuela "said the Argentine.

Mexican take-over the heat

The Mexican Patricio Gonzales was confronted once again with Martin Perez in the final Longboard. Everything indicated that the story welived in Mexico will repeat again, but Gonzales imposed to the Argentine and locals, Wilber Alvarenga and Cristian Martinez, obtaining an absolute victory.

The Longboard indicated that his very happy about his victory because it would add significant points in the ranking that would help to move first, however, although there are several dates to compete and will not surrender until the title of Latin American Champion in Longboard.

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About Latin American Association of Professional surfers

The Latin American Association of Professional surfers is the entity that governs the professional surfing tour of the region crowning annually to the Latin American champions in the categories: Open Men, Woman Open, Pro Junior (Under 20) and Longboard. ALAS was founded with the purpose to promote, develop and encourage the sport of surfing throughout Latin America, with the main objective to raise our technical and competitive level.

The Tour travels across the continent throughout the year generating stops at every strategic location, where the most outstanding surfers of the region are competing to accumulate points for entry to the prestigious Top 16 of the Tour and become, as the final goal in the Latin American Champion. The countries where it has developed the Latino Professional Tour are: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Mexico, Barbados, the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.

ALAS borders unites over 15 countries in the region with the vision to develop surfing as a professional sport, a lifestyle linked to preserve and conserve our surf waves, beaches and their natural surroundings.

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