The Punta Galea Challenge will be held today with six meter waves

The fifteenth edition of Laboral Kutxa Punta Galea Challengethe longest-running big wave surfing competition in Europe, will be held today february 22 with a weather forecast advancing waves of “around the six meters tall“, As confirmed on Monday by the organizers.

The parties announce for tomorrow “yellow warning for impact on the coast” which in La Galea translates, in addition to those six meter waves, into “absence of wind throughout the day and a high period of 15 seconds”.

Low tide will be at noon and in the afternoon, as it rises, it will reach “peak moment of the day, with spectacular conditions“. The competition will start at 9:00 a.m. and the finals are scheduled around 6:00 p.m.

This year the economic endowment allocated to prizes has increased by 50%, up to 20,500 euros.

In this reference competition of this specialty will meet 24 surfers; among them, the Basques will participate natxo gonzalez, Mat Agirregomezkorta, Ibon Lopez, Iago Dominguez, Javier Horn, Kosme Fernandez, Natxo Fernandez, David Bustamante ‘Zuku’, Endika Ruiz, Titus Ortega, Axi Muniain, Indar Unanue, Aritz Aranburu and Iker Amatriain.

The American Nick Lambchampion of the 2014 and 2017 editions, leads the foreign participation in which his compatriot also appears Mason Hyce Barnesthe Australian Russell Bierkethe Italian Francisco PorcellaThe Portuguese Tony Laureano and Michael Whitethe south african fabian campagnolothe brazilian Vinicius Dos Santos and the Dutch Sacha Bongaertz ‘Taxi’.