Snapper Rocks Back on WSL’s Championship Tour Schedule for 2025
It’s been five long years since the last Championship Tour event was held at Snapper Rocks. However, the Superbank icon will return to the CT for the 2025 season, as ABC News in Australia reports.
Snapper Rocks was the Championship Tour season opener for nigh on two decades, until the 2020 season was called off due to the COVID pandemic. When the tour returned in 2021, Snapper Rocks was no longer part of the schedule, due to an alleged dispute with the Queensland government over COVID restrictions. Instead, the event went to New South Wales.
“To not have it here was so sad, not only for us surfers who want people [to] surf our waves, but also for the kids growing up seeing what the benchmark is and what is actually possible at their home break,” said Mick Fanning to ABC.
That’s not to say that Snapper Rocks has been totally absent from the WSL schedule. Since 2022, it has been the opener for the Challenger Series. However, thanks to a four-year deal the WSL reportedly signed with the City of Gold Coast and Tourism and Events Queensland, Snapper Rocks will once again take its rightful place on the Championship Tour in 2025.
The question still remains as to where exactly the event will fit into the schedule. Last year we saw Cloudbreak unseat J-Bay, to the disappointment of South African surf fans. We’ll have to wait and see which locale(s) get the axe as a result of Snapper Rocks’ come-up.
Stay tuned. We’ll have more.
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