La Lobería beach will host the first World Surf League event in the Galapagos Islands.
The QS1000 championship for men and women combined Sails of Change Cup, presented by the Government Council of the Galapagos Special Regime and sponsored by the Municipality of San Cristóbal, will be held from May 4 to 8, on the south coast of the island of San Cristóbal in the iconic beach of La Lobería, with its powerful wave of type reef break that breaks out of the bay on a reef and volcanic rock bottom.
This break is compared to the wave in Hawaii, Pipeline & Backdoor, for its perfect tubes of lefts and rights, with crystal clear water and tropical climate, with a course over a channel of greater depth, which makes it a more accessible wave and with one level less dangerous than the legendary Pipe; in a magical environment, within a marine reserve protected by the Galapagos National Park, with white sand beaches, tropical waters and turquoise blue sea.
Sails of Change will be the first international championship of the World Professional Surf League (WSL) in the history of Galapagos. With the participation of the best surfers in the South American and Pan-American region, who will seek to score important points in the ranking QS to qualify for the Challenger Series division, and the highest WCT division.
This championship will serve as a preparation event for surfers who seek to qualify for the Pan American Games in Santiago 2023, as a prelude and pre-classification for the Olympic Games in Paris 2024, which will take place in French Polynesia, in the powerful wave of Teahupoo in Tahiti ( South Pacific).
National surfers are preparing for this unprecedented QS competition in Galapagos and will seek to climb positions in the ranking regional chasing a spot in the WSL Challenger Series division.
Athletes like Dominic Barona, Génesis Borja, Wendy Velázquez, in the women’s branch, and surfers like Álex Suárez, Carlos Cabezón Goncálvez, Jonathan Zambrano, Juan Pablo Yánez, Israel Barona, among others in the men’s branch, will seek to defend the national tricolor, facing and measuring themselves with athletes with great experience from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Chile, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela and other countries of the Pan-American region.
“In Ecuador you can organize events such as Sails of Change, with this great event that is endorsed by the World Professional Surf League (WSL) and that, in addition, provides points for the classifications with a view to the next Olympic Games in Paris. 2024″, highlighted the Minister of Sports, Sebastián Palacios.
“… The motto of our Government says ‘More Ecuador in the world and more world in Ecuador’, what better way to apply it than through sports. ‘More Ecuador in the world’ means more athletes like him Cat Chila (Jonathan Zambrano) competing at the international level, and ‘More world in Ecuador’ means organizing quality sporting events, sporting events that attract the eyes of the world”, added the head of that State portfolio.
From the Ministry of Sports they assure that the tournament will be broadcast live through CNT so that the signal reaches more than 100,000 people outside the national territory. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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