The win capped a spectacular start to the 25 year-old's tilt at the Pro circuit and fanned a frenzy of media and public interest in his 'footy-pass' bowling style, with appearances on ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today Show and The Fox Network's Fox & Friends.
He has also featured in the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, ESPN The Magazine, Denver Post, Boston Globe, ESPN.com and other international media, while the sport's "bible', Bowlers Journal International has headlined Belmo with a front cover feature article in its May edition.
ESPN's E:60 program, which combines investigative reporting with in-depth profiles of sports personalities featured Belmonte's tenpin technique when it aired in the US, with host Jeremy Schaap introducing the segment.
"In the tradition of great sports innovators like Dick Fosbury, who revolutionized the high jump, and Bill Walsh, inventor of football's West Coast offense, a 25-year-old Australian named Jason Belmonte is taking the bowling world by storm with a revolutionary technique in which he bowls using both hands."
"Belmonte is challenging his sport's history and redefining what it means to be a bowler. Belmonte's two-handed bowling is now spreading to all corners of the globe."
After further tournaments in Sweden and Denmark, Belmonte will return to Australia in early June to a hero's welcome from the bowling fraternity and family and friends in his home city of Orange, New South Wales.
A hectic schedule of tournament commitments and media appearances will soon see the globe-trotting star packing his bags again to compete in and further popularise the sport in which he excels.
Story courtesy of Lynn Clay. |
