Honolua Blomfield Wins Her Second WSL Women's World Longboard Championship
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2024
- Honolua Blomfield has won her second WSL Women's World Longboard title at the 2019 WSL Taiwan Open World Longboard Championships.
After a super consistent year for the 20-year-old Hawaiian, everything culminated in pumping but challenging, five-to-six foot surf at "The Left" in Taitung.
Blomfield claimed the Championship, along with the event win.
Blomfield had all the odds stacked against her needing not only to win the event but also for Longboard Tour rankings leader Chloe Calmon to be eliminated in the semifinals or earlier.
Blomfield couldn't focus on anything but her own surfing and had to leave the rest to fate.
After Calmon's shock semifinal exit, to avoid a surf-off for the title, Blomfield had to beat Alice Lemoigne in their 35-minute match-up.
Blomfield never looked like faltering in the final, posting a heat total of 12.67 early, nose riding through critical sections on set waves and flowing across the slow sections.
She then tactically sat with priority until the dying seconds when she took off on the last wave of the heat to take her second world title in three years.
"I'm so stoked I don't even know what to say," Blomfield said.
"I'm so thankful to be a part of this week. I feel like all of the odds were against me and then I made the comeback. I always knew I could win it, but I just took it heat by heat, then somehow it all came into place, and now here I am - I'm just so stoked."
To take the win, Blomfield overcame Brazilian Chloe Calmon, who came into the final event of the season with a decent lead but needed to finish higher Blomfield in Taiwan.
Unfortunately for Calmon, Blomfield was too consistent on finals day, leaving her to finish runner-up to the World title for her third year.
"It's always so scary doing battle with Chloe," Blomfield continued.
"She is such an incredible surfer and always gets the best out of me. I just want to thank my family and sponsors for always supporting me. I still can't believe I'm world champion again."
