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Kanoa Igarashi has qualified for the Tokyo Olympics after participating in a World Surfing Games event in El Salvador on Monday. | INTERNATIONAL SURFING ASSOCIATION / VIA KYODO
Kyodo Jun 1, 2021
Kanoa Igarashi sealed his Tokyo Olympic selection Monday at the World Surfing Games in El Salvador, the final qualifier for this summer’s games.
The 23-year-old needed only to participate in the ongoing event after placing sixth in the World Surf League’s Championship Tour in 2019. The top 10 surfers on the tour earned Tokyo Games berths, provided they took part in the ensuing World Surfing Games.
Champion surfing siblings have spoken about their heroic efforts after a dramatic video of them saving a drowning woman in Hawaii last week shocked the world.
Australian athletes Tyler, 27, and Mikey Wright, 24, made a joint rescue of a female beachgoer who was swept out into the rocky reefs at Ke Iki Beach in Hawaii on New Year s Eve.
The dramatic moment Mikey ran into rough surf to rescue a woman being dragged out into sea was shared widely online, with viewers calling the sibling rescue an absolutely heroic effort .
Mickey Wright (pictured, centre) rescued a woman who was dragged out into the rough surf on New Years Eve