2005 Rip Curl Reunion Island WCT

With a crowd of over 15,000 spectators perched on the edge of the reef cheering loudly, natural-foot surfers (surfers who ride with their left foot forward) dominated the bulk of the heats today to win 10 out of 13 heats held at the Rip Curl Search WCT competition at Reunion Island's St Leu.

The event, the fifth on the $US270,000 Foster's Men’s World Tour, took place in near perfect conditions with 1.5 to 2 metre (four to six foot) waves gracing the famed left hand break (waves that break from left to right) which peels for over 200 metres.

Numerous excellent rides were recorded with the highest total score of the day going to 4th seeded Australian surfer, Trent Munro, who in heat 4 of round 3 scored a 9.57 out of a possible 10 and a 7.5 (to total 17.07) even after he’d badly corked his calf muscle by hitting the reef on a previous wave.

ROUND 2 RESULTS:

Heat # 1
Joel Parkinson def. Matt Wilkinson
Heat # 2
Trent Munro def. David Grainville
Heat # 3
Luke Egan def. Abdel El Harim
Heat # 4
Bruce Irons def. Travis Lynch
Heat # 5
Tom Whitaker def. Brian Toth
Heat # 6
Phil MacDonald def. Ben Dunn
Heat # 7
Bruno Santos def. Michael Lowe
Heat # 8
Darren O'Rafferty def. Pablo Gutierrez
Heat # 9
Richard Lovett def. Tom Curren
Heat #10
Jake Paterson def. Frederic Robin
Heat #11
Taylor Knox def. Bernardo Pigmeu
Heat #12
Travis Logie def. Guilherme Herdy
Heat #13
Paulo Moura def. Renan Rocha
Heat #14
Tim Reyes def. Kalani Robb
Heat #15
Bede Durbridge def. Luke Stedman
Heat #16
Victor Ribas def. Greg Emslie

COMPLETED ROUND 3 HEATS:

Heat # 1
Taj Burrow def. Raoni Monteiro
Heat # 2
Daniel Wills def. Taylor Knox
Heat # 3
Jake Paterson def. Tom Whitaker
Heat # 4
Trent Munro def. Tim Reyes
Heat # 5
Mick Fanning def. Bede Durbidge
Heat # 6
Marcelo Nunes def. Fred Patacchia
Heat # 7
Darren O'Rafferty def. Richard Lovett

REMAINING ROUND 3 HEATS:

Heat # 8
Kelly Slater v. Bruno Santos
Heat # 9
Andy Irons v. Jean da Silva
Heat #10
Mark Occhilupo v. Peterson Rosa
Heat #11
Cory Lopez v. Victor Ribas
Heat #12
Luke Egan v. Paulo Moura
Heat #13
Joel Parkinson v. Kirk Flintoff
Heat #14
Phil MacDonald v. Troy Brooks
Heat #15
Nathan Hedge v. Lee Winkler
Heat #16
Bruce Irons v. Travis Logie

Source: surfingthemag.com

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