COOLANGATTA/QLD (19th July, 2012): The SUP marathon race at the Australian Surf Festival supported by Essential Energy in Port Macquarie will be a showcase of some of the best paddlers in the world.
Former Pipe Masters Champion Robbie Page leads a strong Travelsim Team Australia which leaves this week for the Nicaragua ISA World Masters Surfing Championship.
Cloudbreak turned on once again for the world’s best surfers as the opening 10 heats of the elimination Round 2 of the Volcom Fiji Pro were completed in clean four-to-six foot (1 – 1.5 metre) waves at the primary event venue.
Sunshine Coast surfer Keely Andrew will be hitting the surf on a new custom DHD surfboard after she was named the Standout Surfer for TravelSIM Team Australia at the recent DAKINE ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in Playa Venao, Panama.
John John Florence (HAW), 19, has won his maiden ASP World Championship Tour event, taking out the Billabong Rio Pro over Joel Parkinson (AUS), 31, in barrelling three-to-four foot (1 metre) waves at Barra da Tijuca.
THE Sunshine Coast unfortunately, didn’t live up to its name today, with wet and windy conditions greeting competitors at Coolum Beach for day-one of the Chiko Sunshine Coast Pro.
Courtney Conlogue (USA), 19, has won the prestigious 2012 Commonwealth Bank Beachley Classic, over Malia Manuel (HAW), 18, at Dee Why beach today. In clean, but challenging two to three foot (1.5 metre) waves, the world’s best female surfers battled head-to-head for the biggest prize purse on the ASP Women’s World Championship Tour, with Conlogue […]
TARANAKI, New Zealand (Saturday, April 14, 2012) – Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 24, has won the TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival’s blue ribbon event, the Dow AgroSciences Pro in clean three foot (1.5 metre) surf over Carissa Moore (HAW), 19, at Taranaki, New Zealand today.
The TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival featuring the Dow AgroSciences Pro ran the opening round of competition at Taranaki’s Fitzroy Beach today. Two-to-three foot (1.5 meter) long lefts and rights peeled off at Fitzroy Beach, providing the competitors the perfect stage to kick off their campaigns.
COOLANGATTA/QLD (15th March, 2012): Australia’s leading junior surfers have been given a timely boost in their quest to one day qualify for the elite World Tour with the launch of the Surfing Australia High Performance Scholarship Program.