Let the good times roll! Griffin Colapinto is coming back home to San Clemente with a big win at the Fiji Pro and a clear shot at earning the 2024 world title in front of the hometown crowd. The WSL Finals are about three weeks away, and we’re in for quite a show.
Sprinting through three straight days of competition, Colapinto made short work of Indonesia’s Rio Waida in the final. A lopsided affair, Waida was surfing in his first-ever final. But that’s not the whole story, in the quarters Colapinto dispatched Gabriel Medina, then went on to eliminate Jack Robinson in the semis.
With three world titles to his credit, Medina needed to win the event to get to the WSL Finals. Colapinto made sure that didn’t happen. Meanwhile, Robinson will come into the Finals with the number three seed, just behind Colapinto. There’s a good chance they’ll see each other again at Lowers, and to have this win over him in Fiji, it has to do wonders for the mindset…