Gabe Medina has just hoisted the Rip Curl Search San Francisco trophy after defeating a long list on challengers today, including Joel Parkinson, Taylor Knox, and Kelly Slater.The 17 year old Brazilian is only in his fourth event on the word stage, and this is his second victory. To put that stat into perspective, the oldest surfer on tour, Taylor Knox at 40, has been on tour for 18 years and has never won an event.(*it has been pointed out that Taylor has indeed won an event, in brazil, sometime before the turn of the century. sorry, taylor) Gabe has been on tour for 3 months and has 2 victories.
This new brigade of young Brazilians, that includes Medina along with Miguel Pupo and Alejo Muniz, is looking pretty unstoppable at the moment. Their surfing is obviously on the cutting edge, but their attitudes are far more palatable to the mainstream surfing world, compared to Adriano de Souza and previous South American surf stars. The aggressive claims and the machismo have been removed, along with a bit of the butt-out stance, which are probably the two things that have kept Adriano's fame relegated to Brazil.
This question is not if one of these Brazilians can win the title, but when. Gabe's only been on tour for a quarter of a season, and he already has world champions rattled. Even 11 time ones.
RIP CURL PRO SEARCH SAN FRANCISCO FINALS RESULTS:
1 - Gabriel Medina (BRA) 16.50
2 - Joel Parkinson (AUS) 10.90
RIP CURL PRO SEARCH SAN FRANCISCO SEMIFINALS RESULTS:
SF 1: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 17.33 def. Taylor Knox (USA) 14.27
SF 2: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 14.97 def. Alejo Muniz (BRA) 14.34
RIP CURL PRO SEARCH SAN FRANCISCO QUARTERFINALS RESULTS:
QF 1: Taylor Knox (USA) 14.96 def. Kieren Perrow (AUS) 12.83
QF 2: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 14.50 def. Kelly Slater (USA) 11.10
QF 3: Alejo Muniz (BRA) 13.83 def. Brett Simpson (USA) 11.83
QF 4: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 16.76 def. Josh Kerr (AUS) 10.93
RIP CURL PRO SEARCH SAN FRANCISCO ROUND 5 RESULTS:
Heat 1: Taylor Knox (USA) 14.67 def. Miguel Pupo (BRA) 12.83
Heat 2: Gabriel Medina (BRA) 13.93 def. Matt Wilkinson (AUS) 13.70
Heat 3: Brett Simpson (USA) adv. Patrick Gudauskas (USA) *Gudauskas withdraws due to injury
Heat 4: Joel Parkinson (AUS) 11.60 def. Owen Wright (AUS) 6.40
CURRENT ASP WORLD TITLE TOP 5 (After Rip Curl Pro Search San Francisco):
1. Kelly Slater (USA) 63350 pts
2. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 48,600 pts
3. Owen Wright (AUS) 47,900 pts
4. Adriano de Souza (BRA) 43,700 pts
5. Taj Burrow (AUS) 42,200 pts
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Posted by antman9 November 8, 2011 07:13am PSTReply | Report Abuse
yes here you go again showing yr anti brazilian opinions great to see medina even if he does poke his ass out a bit making slater show his bad loosing personality if medina was put in the start of there year i think slater would not hav won his extra bla bla world title and alot of the glamour taken away from him but of course all the scores and everything is placed in slaters lap
Posted by bh1 November 8, 2011 07:27am PSTReply | Report Abuse
Antman, you're an idiot. Learn how to spell and write grammatically correct sentences. Don't even compare two decades of dominance with the accomplishments , albeit amazing, of a 17 year old. Check back in 20yrs and see if Gabe at 37 has 11 world titles, an EDDIE AIKAU title, 5 Pipe masters titles and just about every record in the books.
Also, to the writer of the article, please check your information first before throwing a legend like TK under the bus. He has won a World Tour event before. Brazil. I'm not sure exactly what year, bu he has a victory
Posted by ricardo baasch filomeno November 9, 2011 08:14am PSTReply | Report Abuse
Taylor Knox has won in
Rio Surf Pro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1996)
Posted by ricardo baasch filomeno November 9, 2011 08:14am PSTReply | Report Abuse
Taylor Knox has won in
Rio Surf Pro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (1996)
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