With Michel Bourez, Jeremy Flores and Johanne Defaye in particular, the overseas territories have always been the backbone of the French surfing team. But on the occasion of the World Surfing Games 2022 from September 16 to 24, a new wave is emerging.
On the waves of Huntington Beach in California, ultra-sailors will have the wind in their sails this weekend. Because this year, the French surfing federation is counting on 5 representatives from overseas, on the 6 athletes of its selection.
Among them the Tahitian Mihimana Braye, called for the first time under the tricolor flag. At 25, he is one of the rising stars of his generation.
Among the girls, Vahine Fierro, the Polynesian who was already surfing at the age of 2. World champion in 2018, she finished 3rd in the 2022 championship tour at Teahupoo this year.
The other surfers come from Guadeloupe.
Mihimana Braye. At 25, he will also be part of the France team during this world championship in California.
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It’s a close-knit team that is approaching this World Surfing Championship. With eyes riveted on the 2024 Olympics, the French results will ensure quotas for the nation for the meeting of the rings in Teahupoo.
The competition will be played without the best French: Michel Bourez, Jérémy Flores, and Johanne Defaye. But the succession is assured.
France has twice won the world title of nations: in 2017 in Biarritz and in 2021 in El Salvador. Six French people have won the individual Open world title: Heifara Tahutini (1990), Hira Teriinatoofa (2004 and 2010), Jérémy Florès (2009), Cannelle Bulard (2011), Pauline Ado (2017) and Joan Duru (2021). Tahutini and Teriinatoofa represented the Tahiti team when they won. Double world champion Teriinatoofa is now on the staff of the France team as an Olympic preparer.
The report of Outremer la 1ère:
France surfing team
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