The Projunior Porto & Matosinhos will be held on 15 and 16 April in Porto and Matosinhos, in what is the first stage of the Junior Tour 2023, the national circuit that defines the under-20 national champions
The best Portuguese juniors will head to the North of Portugal to start this three stage competition that will also include Viana do Castelo (13th and 14th May) and Santa Cruz (29th and 30th July).
The competition schedule for the first rounds is already available and the start for the first day of the competition is planned for 7h30 am on Saturday at Praia Internacional do Porto (to be confirmed with the organization the day before).
Round 1 Highlights - Men
Heat 6: Francisco Mittermayer x Matias Lopes x Igor Silva x Santiago Graça
Heat 7: Martim Nunes x Gui Carvalho x Kekoa Hummel x Zé Champalimaud
Heat 9: Tiago Stock x Leonardo Silva x Joaquim Chaves x António Bandeira
Round 1 Highlights - Women
Heat 2: Maria Salgado x Sofia Matos x Miriam Julião x Carolina Marques
Heat 3: Érica Máximo x Matilde Pinto x Maria Dias x Ana Lima
The Junior Tour brings together the elite of the new generation of Portuguese surfing, on a competitive platform that brings together the youngest in the phase immediately prior to their senior careers and thus before they assert themselves on the main stages, both nationally and internationally. Junior Tour - Champions Gallery
2022 - Martim Nunes & Érica Máximo
2015 - Tomás Fernandes & Carolina Mendes
2014 - Tomás Fernandes & Teresa Bonvalot
2013 - Francisco Alves & Ana Sarmento
2012 - Francisco Alves & Carina Duarte
2010 - Vasco Ribeiro & Carina Duarte
2009 - Frederico Morais & Francisca Santos
Being a competition that follows the age standards of the World Surf League, after a few years of interregnum where internationally the competition was dedicated to surfers up to 18 years old, the Junior Tour returned to the Portuguese beaches in 2022 with Martim Nunes and Érica Máximo becoming national champions, thus succeeding some names that currently lead the Portuguese surfing as Frederico Morais, Vasco Ribeiro, Tomás Fernandes, Francisco Alves, Teresa Bonvalot or Carolina Mendes.
Martim Nunes - National Champion Projunior 2022
"It was very good to achieve this title in my career because I had never won it before. I saw my effort rewarded. I was able to show my surfing in the two stages of the circuit and it was important for the following competitions of the MEO Surf League and in the European Projunior. For this stage in Porto I'm going to focus on my surfing and I want to compete well, but I'm not thinking about the result or the title. I want to control what I can and show good surfing." Erica Máximo - National Champion Projunior 2022
"It was very important to win the Projunior national champion title. I had never been national champion before and that was a huge confidence boost for the championships that followed. It proved that we are capable of beating athletes who are sometimes better or more recognised. I felt that since then there has been more recognition from people in relation to my surfing and that makes me happy. Now I'm going to Porto to surf good waves and defend my title.
The Projunior Porto & Matosinhos will be co-organized by Onda Pura with the Associação Nacional de Surfistas and is part of the list of events that make up the Porto and Matosinhos Wave Series 2023.
Marcelo Martins - Wave Series Organization and Projunior Porto & Matosinhos
"It is always great to host this Junior Tour event, which brings to the waves of the North the best under-20 athletes from all over the country. Besides being an important qualifying event in this category, it is an incentive for the younger athletes to continue to excel and to continue their training and preparation work in this sport, to continuously improve their level. It is also an important motivating factor for the coaches and for the teams, who can show their work and the evolution of their athletes."
All the action of Projunior Porto & Matosinhos can be followed live through the livescore system at ansurfistas.com, as well as on other institutional platforms of the National Surfers Association.
Part of the Porto&Matosinhos Wave Series 2023, the first stage of the Junior Tour is organized by Onda Pura Surf Center and the National Surfers Association, with the collaboration of the Municipalities of Porto and Matosinhos and the technical support of the Portuguese Surfing Federation. This event is sponsored by Gold Energy, 58 Surf, Ramirez, Solinca, Vitalis, MEO, Presto Pizza, Edifício Transparente and Santa Maria Hospital - Porto.
More information at www.ansurfistas.com.
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