{"id":7436,"date":"2020-12-09T02:08:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7436"},"modified":"2020-12-09T04:22:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T04:22:18","slug":"shark-attack-derails-aussies-at-wsl-maui-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7436","title":{"rendered":"Shark attack derails Aussies at WSL Maui Pro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aussie surf stars Tyler Wright and Sally Fitzgibbons had their semi-final at the World Surf League&#x27;s Roxy Pro in Maui postponed on Wednesday after a shark attacked a local surfer.<\/p>\n<p>The attack reportedly occurred less than three hours before the competition was set to get underway at Honolua Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The male recreational surfer suffered injuries to his leg and reportedly required CPR on shore before being rushed to hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The day&#x27;s proceedings were immediately called off by World Surf League chief Erik Low.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTomGeorge\/status\/1336431743012798465\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTomGeorge\/status\/1336431743012798465<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We had a shark incident this morning with a recreational surfer. Due to that we are putting our event on hold indefinitely,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Our thoughts and prayers are with this victim.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The latest attack comes a little over a week after a woman suffered severe trauma to her torso in a shark attack in West Maui.<\/p>\n<p>Wright had earned her way in to the semi-final after scoring a perfect 10 in the first quarterfinal heat against fellow Aussies and seven-time world champ Steph Gilmore.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"73f68d60-587a-4192-bebc-aee444fa1278\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/73f68d60-587a-4192-bebc-aee444fa1278\" alt=\"A shark attack postponed the Maui Pro where Aussies Tyler Wright and Sally Fitzgibbon were set to showdown in the semifinals. (Getty\/Twitter)\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Aussie surf stars Tyler Wright and Sally Fitzgibbons had their semi-final at the World Surf League&#x27;s Roxy Pro in Maui postponed on Wednesday after a <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=7436\" title=\"Shark attack derails Aussies at WSL Maui Pro\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7436"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7438,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7436\/revisions\/7438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}