Guernsey Press

Two CI age-group titles for Hook

HOT Sarnian surfing prospect Tom Hook won two age-group titles at the Channel Islands Surfing Championships held at the Watersplash, St Ouen’s Bay.

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The CI Surfing Championships Under-18 and Under-14 boys' winner Tom Hook. (Picture by David Ferguson, 24307106)

While Jersey’s Nathan Elms put in a great display of powerful surfing to win the men’s title in an event organised by the Channel Island Surfing Federation, Hook shone equally with one of the standout performances of the day.

Hook not only won the under 18 and under 14 boys, he came within a whisker of winning the under 16s too.

Holding the highest scoring wave of the final and just needing an average-scoring ride to take the win, Hook took off near the end of the heat on a great-looking wave, but he threw so much effort into going big on his first manoeuvre that he came unstuck and fell off, leaving the wave to run perfectly along the beach without him.

This opened the door for Owen Graham, who also surfed strongly all day, to take the win.

The event was blessed with fantastic weather and good 2-3ft surf, and also doubled up as the qualifying event for the British Cup to be held in Jersey in May and the European championships to be held in Portugal in July.

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