Owen Wright wins Fiji Pro! With two 10-point rides!
History? Yeah, it is.
Yesterday, Owen Wright, the 25-year-old Australian, rode a perfect heat. Today, he became the first surfer to score two perfect heat totals in the one event.
This time in a one-sided final against Julian Wilson, 20.00 to 7.84.
“I had a little quiet time to myself watching it,” said Owen afterward, tongue at last loosed. “I knew it was going to turn on. I knew they were coming and I was takin’ ’em.”
When O exited a long barrel earlier in the heat, completely unalarmed, he scored ten. Joe Turpel described it as a “thing of beauty.”
Later, a longer barrel, and Owen lifted his head up and yelled, “Give it to me! Give it to me! I want another twenty!”
And he got it. Watch the final!
“Holy smokes! We meet again!” Striker said to Owen.
And here’s Owen’s perfect heat yesterday.
En route, Kai Otton got smoked real good on the reef.
He’s alive!
Fiji Pro Final Results:
1: Owen Wright (AUS) 20.00
2: Julian Wilson (AUS) 7.84
Fiji Pro Semifinal Results:
SF 1: Julian Wilson (AUS) 11.50 def. Taj Burrow (AUS) 8.66
SF 2: Owen Wright (AUS) 16.93 def. Jeremy Flores (FRA) 16.57
Fiji Pro Quarterfinal Results:
QF 1: Julian Wilson (AUS) 17.36 def. Italo Ferreira (BRA) 17.00
QF 2: Taj Burrow (AUS) 13.37 def. Wiggolly Dantas (BRA) 7.40
QF 3: Owen Wright (AUS) 16.60 def. Joel Parkinson (AUS) 12.84
QF 4: Jeremy Flores (FRA) 16.83 def. Kai Otton (AUS) 12.90
2015 WSL Jeep Leaderboard Top 5 (after Fiji Pro):
Adriano de Souza (BRA) 28,000 pts
Filipe Toledo (BRA) 27,450 pts
Owen Wright (AUS) 26,250 pts
Mick Fanning (AUS) 24,950 pts
Julian Wilson (AUS) 23,450 pts
Owen has Adriano and Filipe’s guts roped around his fingers. It’s 2011 again, with an improved finale.
Someone somewhere mentioned that Toledo on the Goldie looked like a video game. If someone out there is actually making that video game then I want to play the Cloudbreak level and get pitted like Owen.
Respect and best wishes for an epic 18 months. I suspect the people in your life need the constant reassurance because it’s so definitive. You seem to have come to terms with it, but that’s not something you can really give to someone else.
Hey, Chas, why not bring the coments already open in the articles? Would be more inviting to us to write more. Just my opinion.
…yeah, I feel it. The story scrolling thing we built makes Disqus impossible to display over multiple articles. But! Gonna change! Real soon. Thanks for the feedback!
Oh, I kinda liked that feature.
I like it. It’s like a tease at the end of the article. Plus fuck what UX designers tell you, hide everything. People are idiots.
twas an impressive run to be sure.