Basque Team surfer Kai Odriozola takes third place in the Qualifying Series Lacanau Pro
His brother Hans, leader of the European rankings, has won the championship.
The brothers Hans and Kai Odriozola are to be congratulated, as they have both climbed the podium in the Caraïbos Lacanau Pro, the qualifying series championship held in Girond, France. This year's good and regular results have led Hans to lead the European main ranking of QS, and his brother Kai is in third place, tied to Luan Nogues.
Hans began his career in the third round, with 64 of the best surfers. He was the best of his batch to advance smoothly to the next round. In the same round the Guipuzcoano Bitor Garitaonandia was left out. In the next round Hans was again the best of his series and won the pass along with another Guipuzcoan, Ruben Vitoria.
At the octave crossing the Odriozola brothers faced each other for the first time. In the 20-minute round, four surfers had to measure their strength to get two places to the quarter-finals and those squares were for the donostiarras. Kai shone and his two best waves scored 7.67 and 7.77 to accumulate a total of 15.44. Hans scored 12.06, Portuguese Afonso Antunes 10.17 and Swiss Fantin Habashi 9.34.
In the quarterfinals, the Odriozola continued to show their best surfing. Kai measured their strength with Vizcaíno Markel Vizcarguenaga, and the duel favored the Guipuzcoano, who scored a remarkable 15.10. Hans beat the Italian Apreda in his turn. The notes collected by Hans were stratospheric. His fifth wave was 9.50 and the sixth was 8.37.
In the semifinals the brothers clashed again and in a round full of excitement, Hans continued to draw the strength he has shown throughout the tournament. Although Kai surfed a wave of 5.07, Hans pulled a 7.17 out of the joke, Kai responded with a 5.67, but Hans finished the fight with a 6.83.
In the final, Hans played against the Frenchman Noe Ledee and got very good ratings. The youngest of the Odriozola accumulated a total of 13.83 points, surpassing the Frenchman's 11.70.
Basque Team fellow Andy Criere finished in ninth place.
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