BOMBS AT CLOUDBREAK: SEMAN WINS FIJI, KENYON BREAKS THROUGH IN SECOND
The Fiji Surf Pro saved its hardest day for last. Finals day at Cloudbreak, off Tavarua Island, turned mean: mast-and-a-half sets marching through, the waves thick and square and unforgiving, and an offshore wind that kept swinging around until picking the right one was close to a lottery.
The Women’s title ran as a best-of-three, leaderboard-style final, three heats with placings combined. Jane Seman swept it. First in all three heats, a clean 1, 1, 1 on a day that broke other people’s gear. It is her second Cloudbreak crown after 2022.
Sarah Kenyon, seventeen and the reigning Junior World Champion, took second. A SEVERNE one-two on one of the most serious waves in the world.
This is the win Jane wanted. It is not, by her own reckoning, the ride she wanted. She won every heat of the final and still walked away talking about what she left on the table.
“I just love this wave so much,” Jane said after the final. “Winning here in 2022 was special, but today, in those conditions, bombs coming through, perfect wind, that’s as good as it gets in windsurfing.”
“I was definitely happy to take the win at Cloudbreak, but I want to do better. Safe isn’t that satisfying,” she wrote on Instagram. Read that next to the scoreline and it lands harder: a clean sweep, first in every heat, and the word she reaches for is “safe.” The wave, she admits, got bigger than anything she had tried to hit before. In those conditions she is honest about the maths: she does not think she would have made the biggest sections if she had gone for them. “But I regret not trying.”
Jane sat in the lineup at Cloudbreak, watched the men ride sections she calls “next level insane,” some of it beyond what she thought possible on a wave that size, and instead of banking the trophy and walking away, she filed it as homework.
Heart-Racing Positions
She did not exactly play it safe either. Jane described putting herself in “heart racing positions,” took a proper beating, and loved every wave she rode. “There’s a gap that I want to close,” she wrote. “I watched and learned a lot and am leaving super motivated to come back here and push more.”
For a rider who spends as much energy building the sport as competing in it, that hunger is the point. Jane is based in Margaret River, where she has run, among other events, the SEVERNE Margaret River Wave Classic, putting young Western Australian sailors in front of the best in the world. She rides SEVERNE on the Stone and Blade combo. Cloudbreak is where she goes to find her own ceiling, and this trip she found it, looked up, and decided it can be moved.
A Breakthrough in Second
Right behind her, Sarah Kenyon broke through.
Sarah is seventeen, from Geraldton in Western Australia, and the reigning Junior World Champion. Cloudbreak is not a forgiving place to break through on the senior stage; on a finals day that snapped gear across the fleet, the thick square sets and the swinging offshore asked hard questions of anyone, let alone a rider that age in only her early professional events. Second place here is a statement.
Sarah comes to windsurfing from a surfing background, and she is SEVERNE’s newest team rider, riding the Redback and the Stone. A second at Cloudbreak is exactly the kind of result that tells you the signing was right.
What’s Next
Jane leaves with the crown back and a clear plan to return and push harder. Sarah leaves with a breakthrough result she will build on. Behind the SEVERNE one-two, Maria Andres of Spain took third and Jessica Crisp of Australia fourth. “Congratulations to ALL the competitors for an incredible spectacle,” Jane wrote. She is already planning the trip back.
Jane Seman rode the Blade and Stone combo. Sarah Kenyon rides the Redback and the Stone.
Photos: Malte Rahbek
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