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Monday, July 28, 2025

Champs to defend surfing titles

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The three-day Carib Pil­sner In­ter­na­tion­al Surf Fes­ti­val will be­gin on Fri­day at the pop­u­lar 'Beach Break' surf­ing haven in Sans Souci, To­co. Lewis is ex­pect­ing an even more im­pres­sive show­ing from last year's 32 in­ter­na­tion­al surfers from sev­en dif­fer­ent coun­tries. The tour­na­ment, now in its sec­ond year, be­came the first in­ter­na­tion­al surf event out­side the Unit­ed States to be sched­uled as part of the West­ern At­lantic Pro Surf Se­ries. The fes­ti­val is be­ing ad­ver­tised with pack­ages from Flori­da and New York on promi­nent surf­ing web­site west­er­nat­lantic­surf.com

Venezue­lan surf stars Rafael Pereira and Fran­cis­co Bel­lorin who placed first and sec­ond con­sec­u­tive­ly in last year's event will re­turn to de­fend their ti­tles while oth­er dis­tin­guished surf­ing cham­pi­ons from Brazil, Ar­genti­na, Uruguay, the Unit­ed States and is­lands in­clud­ing Bar­ba­dos, St. Lu­cia and Ja­maica will trav­el to T&T with­in the next few days to reg­is­ter and com­pete for a part of the USD$10,000 prize purse.

Even an "air" chal­lenge spe­cial­ist Aaron Cormi­can will be tak­ing a flight in from Flori­da to par­tic­i­pate.

Mas­ters and Long­board cham­pi­on, T&T's Che Lovelace is among the lo­cal del­e­ga­tion to com­pete as is fan favourite Christo­pher Den­nis. Den­nis, who re­cent­ly copped the Tri­als num­ber one event in San Souci earn­ing 1000 points in the Men's Open, is ex­pect­ed to woo the crowd and chal­lenge for a top spot.

Three cat­e­gories will be con­test­ed: 'Ju­nior Pro', 'Leg­ends' and 'Open Pro'. An­oth­er 'Night Surf' event will be on the cards for the af­ter hours but will not be com­pet­ed. Even those not tak­ing part in the surf­ing ac­tiv­i­ties have an op­por­tu­ni­ty to be re­ward­ed with prize mon­ey as a biki­ni com­pe­ti­tion has been card­ed with the best mod­el to walk the el­e­vat­ed Red­bull run­way tak­ing away USD$1000. The "Best Ac­tion Shot", "Best Scenic Shot" and "Best Mo­ment Shot" by any pho­tog­ra­ph­er will al­so be pre­sent­ed with USD$1000.

Pop­u­lar rock bands Joint­pop, Or­ange Sky and Skid" Neve­ly as well as lo­cal reg­gae vo­cal­ist Aaron Mar­quez are card­ed to pro­vide en­ter­tain­ment on Sat­ur­day af­ter the Cham­pi­ons League Fi­nal which Lewis ac­knowl­edges will be on the minds of the surf­ing en­thu­si­asts who share a pas­sion in foot­ball.

Ac­cord­ing to Lewis there will be no clash of events as the high­ly an­tic­i­pat­ed match will be broad­cast­ed on a tele­vi­sion set up at the "Beach Break" venue. The Min­istry of Sport and the Tourism De­vel­op­ment Com­pa­ny have giv­en as­sis­tance to the Surf­ing As­so­ci­a­tion while Carib Pil­sner are ti­tle spon­sors.

Com­peti­tors must sub­mit reg­is­tra­tion and pay­ments by Fri­day. A prize giv­ing cer­e­mo­ny will con­clude pro­ceed­ings on Sun­day.


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