above: random footage
above: us open champion 2015 Hiroto Ohhara
comes to shore after winning quarterfinal
above: Tanner Hendrickson coming to shore
"...In the two final heats of a nine-
day competition at the Huntington
Beach Pier, the flags of Reunion
Island and Japan were the last two
to fly high. That's because Johanne
Defay of France won the Women's
title and Hiroto Ohhara of Japan
followed by taking the Men's title.
Defay, 21, and Ohhara, 18,
survived
their opponents and relatively flat
conditions before a crowd
estimated at 75,000..."
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