Southern View: April 11, 2024
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Thursday <strong>April</strong> <strong>11</strong> <strong>2024</strong> 3<br />
Sumner surfers clinch top spots<br />
STAR: 17-year-old Jack Tyro is cementing his place as a<br />
surfing legend after placing first in the mens final for the<br />
Single Fin Mingle. He beat long time Sumner surfing great<br />
and former Mingle winner Luke O’Neill.<br />
• By Dylan Smits<br />
SUMNER SURFERS Jack Tyro<br />
and Luke O’Neill made a splash at<br />
the Single Fin Mingle coming in<br />
first and second place respectively<br />
in the men’s longboarding<br />
competition.<br />
Onlookers and competitors<br />
were lucky to have great weather<br />
and waves over Friday and<br />
Saturday, said festival director<br />
Ambrose McNeill.<br />
“Jack is just such a fierce<br />
competitor. He is unrelenting in<br />
hunting for the right waves and<br />
won’t stop until he gets the score<br />
he needs.”<br />
In a surprise outcome, only<br />
New Zealanders made it to<br />
the men’s final despite tough<br />
competition from successful<br />
international surfers Kai Ellice-<br />
Flint and Thomas Bexon.<br />
“If you told me there were going<br />
to be only New Zealanders in the<br />
final before the event, I would<br />
have said that’s pretty unlikely. So<br />
it was very special,” McNeill said.<br />
Tyro clinched the top spot<br />
with a heat total of 15.040 points<br />
compared to O’Neill’s 13.66.<br />
Each wave surfed was scored<br />
out of 10 with the surfer’s top two<br />
scores combined for their final<br />
total.<br />
McNeill said Tyro was a<br />
favourite after the 17-year-old’s<br />
victory at the Noosa Longboard<br />
Festival of Surfing in Queensland,<br />
BUSY: Organisers estimate there were 1000 spectators for<br />
the surf competition, 1400 at the street party and around<br />
4000 total visitors throughout the festival.<br />
but it was no sure bet.<br />
“It felt like a bit of a passing of<br />
the torch.<br />
“You know, Luke has always<br />
been referred to as the prince of<br />
Sumner for how talented he is.”<br />
The surfers were judged on<br />
wave position selection, variety,<br />
speed, commitment, control and<br />
footwork.<br />
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