Angelo Lozano Shows Talent in the World Junior Championship

During January, Angelo Lozano became the first Mexican surfer who participated in the Junior World Cup that is organized by the ASP. The Billabong ASP World Junior Championship took place in Narrabeen, Sydney and gathered together an exclusive list of the most important 45 athletes who are less than 21 years old. Lozano obtained an International Wildcard by the ASP and finished the Championship on the 17th place of the ranking. An outstanding performance for a young man of 20 years old, with an entire career waiting for him, and who is the pride of Puerto Escondido.

Adan Hernández, José Manuel Trujillo, Christian Corzo and Angelo Lozano had been the athletes chosen by the ASP to determine who would be Mexico’s representative in the Championship. Finally, it was Lozano’s honour to represent his country. Lozano showed really happy when he realized that. And so, the Squalo team member had to prepare his boards and luggage to fly to Australian lands.

Talking to Surfpress, the Mexican surfer said: “I think I could do even better, but in the heat against Matt “Wilko” Wilkinson, australian favourite, there weren’t many waves and he chose the best ones. I think that anything can happen in 20 minutes of a heat on those tipe of conditions and surfing level, no matter who are you competing with, all the participants are great surfers. At this stage, it’s a question of being more intelligent and being lucky to catch the waves. I feel very proud of giving this 17th place to Mexico.”

As well as participating in the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships, Lozano visited different Australian waves like Snapper Rocks and Duranbah Beach (Gold Coast) among others. On the later, he took part of the "Rip Curl King of Coolly", where he was interviewed by Mark Flanagan(Rip Curl event manager). Angelo answered different questions about the Rip Curl Search that took place last year in Mexico, and about his participation in the Trials of the Foster’s ASP World Champonship tour on that stop. The interview would be on the promotional video of the Rip Curl Search WCT which will be carried out in Chile this year.

TOWARDS CHILE

Next February the 16th, Angelo Lozano will be competing in the Reef Classic Chile, which is the second stop of the ALAS tour of 2007. It will take place in Reñaca’s waves, and it will be the first time of this year in the Latin tour. This year the member of the squalo team will have double participation in the Latin tour, because of the modifications ALAS made in the Junior division (now it will be called Junior Pro and the participants have to be younger than 21 years old) Angelo will compete in the Open and Junior divisions at the same time.

“ I had to choose not to participate at the Mexpipe of Puerto Escondido so that I didn’t miss the ALAS date. This year, I’m focusing on the international level and the ALAS tour is a good chance to prove it. That’s why I will be participating in the Open and Junior divisions throughout this year” said to Surfpress this promising surfer.

In this days, Angelo Lozano is in his dear country enjoying with his family and preparing himself for his next competition.

To know more about Angelo log on: www.angelolozano.com

Angelo Lozano is sponsored by: SQUALO - LINDEN SURFBOARDS –FCS - BLACK FLYS - HYPER FLEX WETSUITS - BAJA BOARD HOUSE.

Source: Surfpress

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