Roxy Pro Final Day Highlights

SNAPPER ROCKS, Queensland/Australia (Sunday, March 4, 2012) -- The final day of the Quiksilver and Roxy Pro Gold Coast presented by Land Rover culminated today with perennial ASP World Title threat Taj Burrow (AUS), 33, and four-time ASP Women's World Champion Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 24, taking the respective wins in clean two-to-three foot (1 metre) waves at the primary venue of Snapper Rocks.

Gilmore is back on top after an emotional victory at the Roxy Pro Gold Coast at her home break of Snapper Rocks today.

Gilmore, 24, scored a 9.2 wave in the last minute to defeat Sydney's Laura Enever 16.37 to 14.2 in the 30-minute final to reclaim the No.1 spot on the ASP world rankings. A position Gilmore lost to Moore exactly one year ago at the Snapper Rocks event.

Gilmore said this season already feels like a complete flip-side to last year, when she was attacked by a man wielding an iron bar at her Tweed Heads home shortly before the first event of the year.

Gilmore added that the women's standard was unsurpassed this year and twenty-year-old Enever was a definite contender.

Gilmore advanced to the final with a convincing 18.30 to 15.00 win against Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) in the semi-final, while Enever locked in a final-minute ride to defeat Tyler Wright (AUS) 16.70 to 16.17 in the first semi-final.

Enever went one better than she did at last year's Roxy Pro Gold Coast when she finished third to feature in her first world tour final. The now world ranked no.2 surfer pushed Gilmore all the way but was forced to settle for second against the in-form Gilmore.

The win was Gilmore's fourth Roxy Pro Gold Coast title after victories in 2010, 2009 and as a wildcard in 2005. Her wins in 2010 and 2009 were the launch pad for her successful World Title campaigns, while her victory today was a triumphant return to the Snapper Rocks victory dais.

A gracious Enever congratulated Gilmore and was ecstatic to make her first World Tour final.

Bells Beach will host the next ASP Men's and Women's World Title events from April 3 to 14.

Mandy McKinnon [email protected]
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ROXY PRO GOLD COAST FINAL RESULTS:
1 -- Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 16.37
2 -- Laura Enever (AUS) 14.20

ROXY PRO GOLD COAST SEMIFINALS RESULTS:
SF 1: Laura Enever (AUS) 16.70 def. Tyler Wright (AUS) 16.17
SF 2: Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 18.30 def. Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 15.00

CURRENT ASP WOMEN'S TOP 3 (After Roxy Pro Gold Coast):
1. Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 10,000 pts
2. Laura Enever (AUS) 8,000 pts
3. Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) 6,500 pts
3. Tyler Wright (AUS) 6,500 pts