Barbados: Barbados hosted its first competitors, “Surfer of the 12 months (SOTY), ” final weekend, wherein 14-year-old Tommy Layson gained the under-16, under-18, and Open Males’s titles.
Barbados Kids Listing added, ”When the the Barbados Browsing Affiliation hosted their first competitors ‘Surfer of the 12 months (SOTY)’ occasion final weekend, 14 year-old Tommy Layson gained the under- 16, under-18 and Open Males’s titles.”
Within the under-boys’ division, Kai St George took second place, Rafe Gooding third, and 11-year-old Trent Corbin fourth. Within the under-16 division, Ras Tafari Lewis positioned second, Daniel Banfield was third, and Kian Brits was fourth.
Within the Open Males’s, Kai St George was once more second, Rafe Gooding took third, and Jayden Hill positioned fourth. Ras Menelik Lewis was the winner within the Underneath-12 division, whereas David Layson was second, Kian Brits was third, and Hugo Vermeulen positioned fourth.
Within the under-14 boys’ division, Daniel Banfield took a formidable win whereas Trent Corbin was second, Christian Stoute was third, and Ras Tafari Lewis positioned fourth. Hayley Godson gained the women’ under-18 division whereas her sister Amy was second and Ava Banfield was third.
Barbados has numerous younger gifted surfers and so they had been in motion yesterday at Bathsheba for the primary occasion within the ‘Surfer of The 12 months Sequence”.
The Surfer of the 12 months Sequence has supplied an ideal platform for the surfers of Barbados to showcase their abilities in several classes. Final yr, Stewart Stoute secured first place in U14 and fourth place in U16. She additionally managed 5th place in U18 within the competitors.
Six of the island’s prime junior surfers left the island final week to compete within the ISA World Junior Browsing Championships in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which began on the 24 November and runs till the 03 of December.
The surfers Kai St George, Warren Povey, Jayden Hill will likely be competing within the under-18 division whereas Rafe Gooding, Tommaso Layson and Christian Stoute will compete within the under-16 division. The younger surfers will be a part of among the world’s greatest junior surfers from 45 international locations who will participate within the Underneath-16 and Underneath-18 classes.
St. George, the island’s 2022 Underneath-18 ‘Surfer of the 12 months’ is competing in his third worldwide occasion for the yr. He competed on the Pan American Browsing Video games and the CAC Video games which had been held in El Salvador in June.