Alan Cleland wins an unbelievable final! 🇲🇽🏄🏽‍♂️

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Alan Cleland: Underdog becomes champion

At 21 years old and low in the pack on the Men's Challenger Series, Cleland was not among the headliners when he arrived in El Salvador for the 2023 ISA World Surfing Games, but as the eight-day competition progressed, the Mexican showed that he is not one to be taken lightly.

Cleland finished the competition with three entries among the Top 10 highest-scoring waves, including the 9.73-point scorcher he saved for the final against Igarashi and Peru’s Luca Mesinas and Miguel Tudela.

Now qualified to the Santiago 2023 Pan American Games, Cleland’s performance in El Salvador also got him closer to qualifying for his first Olympic Games.

If South Africa’s Jordy Smith, who received the ticket to Paris 2024 on Day 6 of competition, qualifies again through the World Championship Tour, Cleland would become the top candidate to replace Smith for the quota from the 2023 ISA World Surfing Games.

Image credits: ISA

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