Australia's Jack Robinson won his fourth world surfing championship tour event on Wednesday, claiming the Billabong Pro Pipeline over Italy's Leonardo Fioravanti, who broke his back at the dangerous wave eight years ago.
Robinson had to switch his board after hitting bare reef early in his semi-final against Brazil's Joao Chianca, but kept rolling the dice and got the scores to make the final against Fioravanti.
The Roman broke two vertebrae at Pipeline during a competition in 2015, narrowly avoiding being paralysed but unable to surf for seven months.controversial mid-year cutWestern Australian Robinson, one of the world's best tube riders, had to beat Brazil's Gabriel Medina and Hawaii's John John Florence, both event and world champions, in earlier rounds.
"It's so special, I've dreamed of this for a long time," Robinson said. "This wave has hurt me, this wave has given me a lot of good things too and I'm just grateful to be in one piece and be in the moment."The top five men and top five women at the end of the 10 stop tour will battle for a world title in a one-day contest in California in September.
, being held at the legendary reefbreak of Teahupo'o in Tahiti, also beckon for the top surfers at the end of the global tour.
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