Brazilian Wildcard Padaratz Wins Gotcha Pro, Hawaiian Big Wave Specialist Ballard Turns Small Wave Master to Win Gotcha Girl Star Pro.HUNTINGTON BEACH Huntington Beach, city (1990 pop. 181,519), Orange co., S Calif., on the Pacific coast, across from Santa Catalina Island, in an oil-producing area; inc. 1909. It manufactures aerospace vehicles, aircraft parts, optical instruments, and heat transfer equipment. , Calif.--(BW SportsWire)--Aug. 1, 1999-- For the first time in the history of World Championship Tour (WCT WCT World Championship Tour (surfing competition) WCT WIPO Copyright Treaty WCT Wind Chill Temperature WCT Wide Complex Tachycardia WCT Wavefront Conduction Time WCT Wright's Computer Technology (England) ) surfing competition, a Brazilian has won in Huntington Beach. Wildcard See wild cards and wildcard mask. Neco Padaratz defeated fellow countryman fellow countryman n → compatriota m fellow countryman fellow irreg n → compatriote m fellow countryman fellow Fabio Gouveia in front of more than 50,000 spectators to win the $150,600 Gotcha (jargon, programming) gotcha - A misfeature of a system, especially a programming language or environment, that tends to breed bugs or mistakes because it both enticingly easy to invoke and completely unexpected and/or unreasonable in its outcome. Pro California. Hawaiian Rochelle Ballard defeated Australian Trudy Todd to win the $30,000 Gotcha Girl Star Pro. Padaratz stormed through the final, linking enough maneuvers in the two foot surf to land scoring waves of 8.25, 7.50 and 6.75 to finish with 22.50 points overall to Gouveia's 19.25. Attempting to return to the WCT, Padaratz made a huge step forward in the past two weeks, building his World Qualifying Series points at last week's ShockWave U.S. Open of Surfing and his confidence this week. To reach the Gotcha Pro victory stand and claim his $15,000 first place prize, Padaratz downed several of the top surfers in the world including number one-rated Mark Occhilupo (Australia). "In these conditions you have to surf every wave like it's the last one you're going to get," said Padaratz. "I'm trying to re-qualify for the tour and this helps my confidence." The $15,000 will help his pocketbook. "I'm going to be able to pay my bills now." The highest finishing American was Sunny Garcia (Hawaii) who fell to Padaratz in the semi-finals to receive an equal third. San Clemente's Shea Lopez and reigning world champion Kelly Slater (Florida) both finished equal fifth. Hawaiian big wave rider Rochelle Ballard turned into a small wave specialist to defeat Australian Trudy Todd to win the Gotcha Girl Star Pro final and its $6,000 first prize. Ballard set the pace by opening up with a 6.25 wave and never looked back in "doubling up" on Todd, winning 19.35 points to 8.80 points and jumping to sixth place in the rankings. The Gotcha Pro featured the world's top 44 professional men and top 15 women and was the finale of the inaugural $400,000 Panasonic ShockWave Beach Games. The two-week extreme sports festival featured in-line skating, BMX BMX abbr. bicycle motocross BMX Noun 1. bicycle motocross: stunt riding over an obstacle course on a bicycle 2. biking, wakeboarding Wakeboarding is a surface water sport which involves riding a wakeboard over the surface of a body of water behind a boat. It was developed from a combination of water skiing, snow boarding and surfing techniques. and skateboarding. The Gotcha Pro was mainland America's only WCT event, one of 13 elite competitions held worldwide. |
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