The Ecuadorian Mimi Barona and the Venezuelan Rafael Nerd Pereira were the winners of the thirty-sixth edition of the Corona Pro Surf Circuit on Sunday, the most important professional surfing competition in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.
In the championship held over the weekend at Middles Beach in the Puerto Rican municipality of Isabela, prizes for an amount of $47,000 were awarded, the first prize was $10,000.
In the men’s category, the Venezuelan surfer José Joaquín López was in second place and in the women’s category Rubiana Brownell obtained the second position in the championship.
For the first time, the points accumulated by the competitors of the Professional Surfing Association of Puerto Rico (APSPR) will be taken into account for the Latin American Association of Professional Surfers (ALAS).
ALAS, in its seventh stop on the 2021-2022 tour, is looking for the best athletes eligible for the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games.
“Nono” repeats victory because he was also the champion of the Corona Pro Surf Circuit in 2019.
Barona was the only representative of Ecuadorian surfing at the Tokyo 2020 Games.
In the championship there were participants from Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Venezuela, Costa Rica, France, Brazil, Barbados, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina, Colombia, Nicaragua, Germany and the United States.
During the championship there was live music with bands like Algarete, Misael and The Vershans Project, Dúo Deleite Enyel C and Gyanma, LVice, Los Rarxs, Mike Rodríguez, Mean Gray Cat, Sayonara Señorita, Hijos de Punta and Jomo Pemberton, among others.
Surfing competitions are part of the activities planned by the Puerto Rican government to promote sports and adventure tourism on the Caribbean island. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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