MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2016

MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2016 ; at the Surf
Location	Supertubos beach, Peniche (POR)
Dates	18 to 29 October
Competitors	36 from 8 nations
Medalists
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Last updated August 20, 2019

The MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2016 was an event of the World Surf League for 2016 World Surf League Men's Championship Tour.^[1]

MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal formerly known as Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal or Rip Curl Pro Portugal is a professional surfing competition of the ASP World Tour held every year in October at the Supertubos beach in Peniche, Portugal. The event was first founded in 2009 as Rip Curl Search Portugal. The defending champion is the Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina who won the event in 2017.

The World Surf League (WSL) is the governing body for professional surfers and is dedicated to showcasing the world's best talent in a variety of progressive formats. The World Surf League was previously known as the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) from 1983 to 2014. The organization was founded in 1976 by Fred Hemmings and Randy Rarick.

The 2016 World Surf League World Championship Tour (WCT) is a professional competitive surfing league run by the World Surf League. Men and women compete in separate tours with events taking place from late February to mid-December, at various surfing locations around the world. Surfers receive points for their best events. The surfer with the most points at the end of the tour is announced the 2016 World Surf League Surfing World Champion.

This event was held from 18 to 29 October in the Supertubos beach at Peniche, (Leiria, Portugal), with 36 surfers competing.^[2] Due to the lack of conditions, the organization explored some good surfing spots in the peninsula to end the event in the correct date and some stages of the event were also held at Point Fabril beach between Almagreira and Pico da Mota in Ferrel(pt). Soon as the good waves came back to Supertubos the organization switched again of place.^[3]

Supertubos is a wave and beach located in Peniche, Portugal. The break offers world-class surfing conditions with its curvy waves and hollow powerful tubes, and is the site of the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal the World Surf League Men's Championship Tour event.

Peniche, Portugal Municipality in Centro, Portugal

Peniche is a seaside municipality and a city in Portugal. It is located in Oeste Subregion in formerly Estremadura Province. The population in 2011 was 27,753, in an area of 77.55 km². The city itself has a population of about 15,600 inhabitants.

The District of Leiria is located in Central Portugal. The district capital is the city of Leiria, which is also the largest and most populous city with about 55,000 in the city/urbanised area.

The tournament was won by John John Florence, who beat the rookie Conner Coffin in the final.^[4]

John "John" Alexander Florence is an American professional surfer. He is known as "one of the most dominant Pipe surfers of his era" and won the title of 2017 World Surf League Men's Champion, making him and his arch-rival, Gabriel Medina currently even in terms of world titles. He is the first Hawaii-born surfer to win back-to-back world titles since the late great Andy Irons.

Quarter-finals

Heat 1
	1	Kolohe Andino	17.34
	2	Adriano De Souza	8.10

Heat 2
	1	John John Florence	16.90
	2	Julian Wilson	13.57

Heat 3
	1	Conner Coffin	12.66
	2	Miguel Pupo	5.94

Heat 4
	1	Jordy Smith	17.40
	2	Sebastian Zietz	13.56

Semi-finals

Heat 1
	1	John John Florence	13.84
	2	Kolohe Andino	8.47

Heat 2
	1	Conner Coffin	15.00
	2	Jordy Smith	14.37

Final

Heat 1
	1	John John Florence	16,67
	2	Conner Coffin	9.93

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References

↑ "Men's Championship Tour Event Schedule 2016". World Surf League. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
↑ "2016 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 1 August 2017.
↑ Redação. "Meo Rip Curl Pro avança no Point Fabril" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 August 2017.
↑ "Results – 2016 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 1 August 2017.

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[1] "Men's Championship Tour Event Schedule 2016". World Surf League. Retrieved 1 August 2017.

[2] "2016 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 1 August 2017.

[3] Redação. "Meo Rip Curl Pro avança no Point Fabril" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 1 August 2017.

[4] "Results – 2016 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 1 August 2017.