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Knocked off his board by an attacking shark Jake Rudock Jersey , three-time world champion Mick Fanning punched the creature before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa on Sunday.

Mick Fanning punched an attacking shark before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa Mick Fanning punched an attacking shark before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa Mick Fanning punched an attacking shark before escaping unharmed during the televised finals of a world surfing competition in South Africa

The Australian surfer was struck by the shark from behind and knocked into the water as he sat on his board waiting his turn during the JBay Open in Jeffrey's Bay in the Eastern Cape Province.


As he scans the water, two fins appear and with a splash he disappears under the surface. He is next seen furiously trying to swim to safety before a rescuer pulls him out of the water.


"A big sigh of relief seeing Fanning in one piece," a commentator is heard saying, on the video of the event posted on the World Surf League website.


"I felt something grab, get stuck in my leg rope and instantly jump away. And it just kept coming at my board Taylor Decker Jersey ," Fanning said, once safe on the rescue boat.


Fanning said at first he swam away but then decided to defend himself and turned to punch the shark in the back.


"I saw it taking my board away and I just started cracking it," he told a crowd that gathered around him once he was back on shore, referring to how he struck the shark.


"I'm totally fine. I've got nothing wrong with me," Fanning said in an interview. "There's a small depression in my board and my leg wrap (was) bitten. I'm just totally tripping out. To walk away from that Da'Shawn Hand Jersey , I'm just so stoked. Oh man."


Fanning's mother, Elizabeth Osborne, who watched the incident live on television in Australia, wept as she told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio the attack was "the worst thing I've ever seen happen to any of my family because it was just there in front of me."


Osborne said she believes Fanning's brother Sean, who died in a car accident 17 years ago Tracy Walker Jersey , was watching over his sibling.


The World Surf League cancelled the remainder of the event and Fanning will split the prize money with fellow Australian surfer Julian Wilson, who was also in the water when the attack happened. The two will share second place.


"We are incredibly grateful that no one was seriously injured today," the league said in a statement. "Mick's composure and quick acting in the face of a terrifying situation was nothing short of heroic."


Commentator Ross Williams said there are occasionally shark sightings in and around events but an actual attack was very unusual.


"For it to happen in that fashion during the finals, where it actually showed that crazy aggression toward Mick Fanning, such a crazy thing Graham Glasgow Jersey ," he said on the video.

While tennis clothes were once all pretty similar, you have a lot of stylish options when picking out tennis attire these days. In the early days of tennis in England, tennis was played on lawns and the players wore formal clothing. Even women wore full-length dresses as they played tennis. Nearly all tennis players wore all-white, cotton outfits. Today, tennis players wear all sorts of stylish tennis clothes made of all sorts of synthetic fabrics and in all sorts of colors.

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