ALAS
Las Escolleras Ixtapa Zihuatanejo Mexico
6 - 9 September 2007

Francisco Bellorin wins the ALAS Latin & Caribbean Tour Ixtapa Zihuatanejo  
El Junior Francisco Bellorin se llevó la séptima fecha del Tour ALAS Ixtapa Zihuatanejo         > Espanol

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 10 September, 2007 : - - Today we woke up with good conditions, with a cloudless sky, without wind and better waves than the previous days, those conditions allowed a great spectacle in the finals of each category.

The competition began at 9:00 a.m. with the quarterfinals of the Open category. In the first series the Mexican David Rutherford prevailed against the Portorrican surfer Josie Graves with a difference of 2.6 points over the final score. Graves made radical   tricks but he couldn´t pass into semifinals.

The Brazilian Alandreson Martins led the second heat with air 360º tricks almost perfect that demonstrated his great dominion in each of his movements. The judges granted the highest score of the all the competition: 16,50; score that left one of the favorites, Mexican Ángelo Lozano, out of the Open competition.

In the third the Brazilian Ernesto Nunes needed to pass only one more round, assured a place in the semifinal, to be located first in the Latin ranking, but the Venezuelan Francisco Bellorin left him out of competition by a difference of 0.50 points. With Nunes outside competition in quarterfinals, the present leader of the ALAS ranking, the Peruvian Alarcón, will continue being number 1.

Finals action : photo ALAS

The last series of quarterfinals was taken by the Peruvian Javier Swayne who with a leg injury demonstrated his good surfing defeating the Venezuelan junior Rafael Pereyra. The Venezuelan shone the most impressive aerial tricks of all the championship.

Longboard Final

The victory remained in the house. The Mexican Jose Cano gained the category with cool walks on his table and obtaining classic and modern tricks that made him creditor of the first place. After him, the Argentinean Martin Perez, leader of the Latin American ranking, was not in his better day, the waves against his side are not his fort reason why he had difficulties to prevail first. In 3 rd place was the Mexican Patricio Gonzales.

Junior: Mexican duel

Leandro Usuna took one of the best waves of the day by second consecutive day. The Argentinean "Lele" managed a tube in an almost perfect wave with which, if he had had a clean exit, he would have reached finals of the Junior Pro. But that single wave received little more than 3 points and therefore he didn`t reached the Mexican Ángelo Lozano who passed solid to finals with the also Mexican Jose Manuel Trujillo.

The "Yuco" Trujillo has followed some of the ALAS dates always giving so much to speak because of his good surfing. "I have participated in 4 ALAS in the Junior Pro and always I was left 3 RD . Now I`m happy to arrive at finals here in Mexico with a great friend and surfer Ángelo Lozano with whom I have competed from childhood."

Spectators : photo ALAS

Both Mexican surfers entered into the sea after requesting the DJ reggeaton`s songs for the great Junior Pro final. Both danced from the sea with the music of Tego Calderón in a final where the friendship reigned. Ángelo Lozano was who finally took to the victory of the Junior Pro with complete tricks, good floater and hard rollers. With this goal Lozano advances to the fourth place in the ALAS Junior PRO ranking.

"Those that are leading the Junior Pro were all competing in Mexico; they don´t achieved good result in this stage what it benefits me. There is nothing better than a victory at home". Lozano left the sea in arms of their Mexican companions who waited him in the the sand with the Mexican flag.

Woman`s finals

The victory was taken by the ranking leader, the Peruvian Valeria Solé. She wasn´t in the type of wave she dominates, but she was ingenious to take some good waves. "The waves are complicated here but I could take two waves, one in which the judges gave me 6 points and with I felt a little comfortable. I´m first in the ranking from the El Salvador championship and with the today result now I feel safer, but nothing said, I will compete in all the dates that rest to defend the first place". The Venezuelan surfer Adriana Cano obtained the second place, after her the Mexican Citlali Calleja, and in fourth place the Panamanian Sonia García.

Open Finals

The final duel was between Venezuela and Brazil. The number 9 of the world-wide ISA junior category Francisco Bellorin was going to compete against the experimented Brazilian Alanderson Martins. Five minutes from the end of the final heat the Venezuelan`s victory seemed guaranteed. Alanderson insisted until the last minutes but the pressure of being disputing a final seems to prevent him to culminate the tricks he tried in his last waves.

Finals action : photo ALAS

Without being able to believe it, Bellorín raised the winner place to receive USD 4.000 of prize. He dedicated his victory to his father and thanks him publicly for his unconditional support. With this victory the Venezuelan is now 3 rd in the Open category with only 17 years old. In addition, he remained being the first in the Junior Pro ranking.

"I wanted to gain the Junior Pro, but Manuel Selman and "Yuco" Trujillo surfed very well." Lolo Bellorin comes very surely passing rounds in the last events of both ALAS categories but this it is his first victory in Open.

The ALAS seventh date, Ixtapa Zihuatanejo 2007, was closed with a protocol ceremony where the main state authorities gave a surprise for all the Tour surfers: Mexico will be a confirmed stopped of the ALAS Tour in two dates, both of six stars. So the affectionate treatment that the Mexican town gave ALAS will be missed but not forget because next year the Latin Tour will return to know other two incredible waves that Mexico has to show, and to again share a great Latin experience like the one we had lived.

ALAS Latin & Caribbean Tour IXTAPA-ZIHUATANEJO 2007 thanks all the sponsor and those who colaborate in one way or another to make posible this event: ALAS, H. Ayuntamiento, Gob. Edo. Gro., SEFOTUR, Oficina de Convenciones y Visitantes de Ixtapa-Zihuatanejo A.C., Consejo de Promoción Turística de México, ISA, ASEG, Federación Mexicana de Surfing, Club de Surf Zihua, ASOC. HOT. IXTAPA, ASOC. HOT. ZIHUA, Planeta Surf, Central Surf, Esto es lo que hay, Prime Surfboards, Maxwell, Aeroméxico, CANACO, Manzanillo Bay, Carlos & Charlies, Publisee, Destakados, Squalo, and Prudential.

The Latin American Surf Association
The Latin American Surf Association - ALAS was founded in the year 2000 with the purpose of promoting surfing in Latin America and creating a circuit at continental level that serves like platform of professional competition for the increase amount of surfers in our countries. In the year 2002 ALAS made for the first time in history a series of events that consecrated the first Latin American Champion of Surf; the Latin American Surf Circuit continued and grew throughout the years, holding fast in the coasts of twelve countries of Latin America.

Today, ALAS controls and executes professional championships in the Latin American level, defining the Latin Champions in the Open Pro, Pro Junior, Woman and Longboard categories.

Previous reports:
# 1 : Latin American Tour of Pro Surf, ALAS, set to hit Mexico
# 2 : Great opening day for ALAS Zihuatanejo Mexico contest

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