07/24/2021 8:26 PM
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Updated 07/24/2021 8:26 PM
Argentine
Leandro
Lele
Usuna
made history this Saturday at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, by taking part in the qualifying series with which surfing made its absolute debut as an Olympic discipline.
The surfer from Mar del Plata was fourth among the four in his series with a score of
8.27
(adding the two best waves of a maximum of 25 that each athlete can take).
The winner, after half an hour that the inaugural series lasted, was the Brazilian
Ítalo Ferreira
(13.67), followed by the local
Hiroto Ohhara
(11.40) and the Italian
Leonardo Fioravanti
(9.43).
Usuna will continue his participation
in the second round
this same Argentine morning, while the first two went directly to the third.
After these series of four, the contest will go to hand-to-hand definitions between two surfers.
Usuna had a couple of fair scores, but was left wanting more.
AP Photo / Francisco Seco
Lele
, 33, is the first Argentine Olympian in surfing, one of the
five disciplines that make their debut
in this edition along with karate, baseball, climbing and skateboarding.
The incorporation of these new disciplines, some of them fashionable and growing, is aimed at attracting a young audience.
World champion
in 2014 and 2016 of the International Surfing Federation (ISA), Usuna got his ticket to the Games thanks to a wink of fate: he inherited the square of the Peruvian Lucca Messinas, who obtained the classification a month ago in the World Cup in El Salvador, and thus released the one he had already achieved by obtaining the gold medal in the 2019 Pan American Games, in which the Argentine was second.
Today, for now, has already made history.
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