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Wright and Larson through to Junior Championships in Sydney
by George Mojo
02/01/2008:// Australian junior champion Owen Wright and Hawaiian Granger Larson won the two wildcard places for the ASP World Junior Championships in Sydney.
The pair excelled in the 6ft waves at North Narrabeen Beach to take the top places in the Von Zipper Wildcard Trials - the precursor to the main event.
The world titles, now in their tenth year, marks the most important stop on the 2007 ASP International Junior Surfing calendar and will crown the 2007 ASP World Junior Men’s and Women’s Champions.
Formatted to ASP elite Men’s and Women’s World Tour specifications, the event holds a ten day window period and will see junior surfers compete in man-on-man heats, using priority rules, just like their ASP World Tour heroes would at top level competition.
“I was looking at the heat draw before this event and I thought to myself, ‘wow I really want to be in that and see what I can do against those guys’,” overall winner Wright said, after posting a near perfect 9 out of ten point ride in the final.
"We’ve got a great Aussie team this year; I’m stoked to be a part of it and am planning to give it my best shot,” he added.
Contest Director and former ASP World Tour campaigner Luke Egan said the surf prospects for the event were looking good:
“We’ve had a lot of swell on the whole east coast over the last four days and looking at the forecast, it should last all the way through the first bits of the waiting period.
“The weekend could get a little windy so we’re looking to start the event first thing tomorrow morning and run through as many rounds as we can, over the next few days,” added Egan
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