BEIJING, Sept. 25 (Xinhua) — The Chinese browsing workforce ranked twentieth on the 2022 ISA World Surfing Games, which ended on Friday at Huntington Beach, United States.
“It’s beyond my expectation,” mentioned workforce chief Zhou Changcheng. “We finished 27th in the 2019 edition. This time our young surfer Yang Siqi entered the women’s fifth round of the Repechage and ranked 29th at last, which is a big progress.”
The Chinese workforce have skilled overseas since May.
Kirra Pinkerton of the United States claimed gold medal, and confirmed an Olympic slot for one girl from Team USA. Kanoa Igarashi of Japan, the runner-up on the Tokyo Olympic Games, received the boys’s gold medal and assured Japan an Olympic slot for a male surfer.
Pinkerton additionally took Team USA to the highest of the rostrum within the general groups rankings, the primary time the USA have received the workforce’s gold medal since 2009.