{"id":863,"date":"2021-05-14T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/werocksport.com\/?p=863"},"modified":"2021-05-18T18:52:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T16:52:49","slug":"johanne-defay-quarantaine-competitions-et-freesurf-en-australie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/werocksport.com\/en\/johanne-defay-quarantaine-competitions-et-freesurf-en-australie\/","title":{"rendered":"Johanne Defay : Quarantine, competitions and freesurfing in Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"

French surfer Johanne Defay has been in Australia for the past nine weeks to take part in four consecutive rounds of the world championship held in the country. As the fifth event begins this Sunday at Rottnest Island, here's how the Private Sport Shop ambassador has spent these two months on the other side of the world.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It's not easy to organize a world championship in these times of pandemic. However, the WSL (organizer of the World Surfing Championship) has managed to keep to its schedule at the beginning of the season. After the first competition held last December in Hawaii, the second round (Shiseido Sunset Open), also scheduled in the archipelago, was finally cancelled at the beginning of the year before the third (Santa Cruz Pro) was postponed. As a result, the best surfers of the World Tour had to wait until the beginning of April to get back on a board to compete in Australia, where all the surfers, including Johanne Defay from Reunion, went.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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