Great end of the circuit with top waves for the consecration of Juan Cruz Ruggiero and Victoria Muñoz Larreta. Testimonies of the protagonists and the analysis of the great moment of the National Surf.
“I am happy, happy … I was re nervous in the first two series, knowing that I needed to pass to ensure the title. We were several who had chances and I had to move forward. I had my fears, doubts, but I could achieve it. I took a backpack off and now I can celebrate.” Juan Cruz Ruggiero is one of those quiet kids, who transmit peace, but as he says, “the procession goes inside.” He says that two days ago, while training in the water, he was grabbed doubts. “On the strategy, on the table, on the keels …”, admits between laughs. He did not feel his experience, despite his short 23 years. Black, as they say, had won many titles like Junior and had even been champion in Open, in 2022, but “it is always difficult to be champion,” he still has the neoprene placed and while friends and family greet him, especially his two brothers, who competed in the same tournament and even against him in the same battery.
Ruggiero was reached with the semifinals of the Quiksilver Pro, the best tournament of the year for waves and organization, which closed the Argentine circuit 2025 -of five dates supervised by the ASA-. JC had won the first and finished second in the fourth. But threats were left over, at least five more surfers arrived with mathematical chances at the last stop of the tour, including Thiago Passeri, the 16 -year -old kid who is the new jewel of the National Surf, so he is doing internationally and because he had won the only two Open tournaments he had played in the year -others had lost them for being competing abroad. This time he escaped very little. Tomás López Moreno, champion 2021, snatched the final in the last minutes, with a score that generated controversies and a streaming via transmission that was seen by more than 30,000 people.
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I roughly saw her outside, already relaxed. “I came from two runner -ups and did not want me to pass again. This is my goal of the year and I could reach it. Every year it is more difficult because the level is very high. Now a new generation of boys that comes very strong,” said the champion opening the theme that dominates these days in the environment.
There are those who opened the road, the litter of Martín Passeri (maximum winner of the story with 6 titles) and Maxi Siri (5), which are still in force, then that of Lele Usuna (Olympic surfer in Tokyo) and even Santiago Muñiz (two times world champion), then that of Nacho Gundensen, Franco Radziunas -last two -time champion-, Naza Pereyra and Ruggiero, but Now boys emerge between 14 and 16 years old who challenge the big ones. Like Thiago, Joaquín Muñoz Larreta, Facundo Ruggiero – minor brother of JC- and Juan García Mata who already stepped hard. “I have no doubt that this generation is the best of all, for commitment, dedication and focus,” says Martín Passeri, the captain of Team Quiksilver who took four of the five dates of the tour.
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Among the girls the champion was Victoria Muñoz Larreta, who was crowned despite not being able to be competing abroad. The winner of Roxy Pro was Katya Wirsch, who won Ornella Pellizzari in the final and stayed with the national runner -up. The closing of the day was luxury, in the courtyard of the Honu Beach spa, with beers, homemade pizzas and a massive award that included not only the winners of the tournament but also all the champions of the year, adults and juniors, and even the participants who shone with the Argentine team in the South American of Chicama, Peru.
It was an end to pure celebration and enjoy after an epic day that had the sun peeling at times and a swell that did not stop throwing waves – for two meters – to give an ideal context to the definition of the last day of the event presented by Ala Moana. An ideal combo to put a bun to a national circuit full of talent, which reflects the growth of surfing, at a competitive level and in each breakdown of the Argentine coast.
Source: Ambito
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