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04.01.2007 | Cornwall, UK
British Surf Team to attend International Surf Championships
in Puerto Rico
The British Surfing Association are pleased to announce
that a full team will be attending the 2007 International
Surfing Association World Masters Surfing Championships.
This is being held in Rincon, on the Caribbean island
of Puerto Rico from the 20th until the 28th January
2007. The event will be hosted by the Puerto Rico
Surfing Federation, the national governing body
for the sport of surfing in Puerto Rico. The Championship
will feature surfers from over 15 countries including
Brazil, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France,
Great Britain, Italy, Jamaica, Peru, Portugal, Puerto
Rico, South Africa, Sweden, Tahiti and Venezuela.
The event will determine the world's top surfing
nations and award individual titles to the world’s
top Masters surfers.
This Masters Competition is dedicated to surfers
over the age of 35 who are bringing a wealth of
experience and agility to this inaugural event.
We have a very strong team of 6 – who have
at least 57 British, English & European Championship
titles between them, both past and present, across
all the age categories of their amazing surfing
careers. This does not include the many other competitions
such as the Cornish & Open titles that they
have also gained. We have an extremely good chance
of bringing back the first World Surfing title to
Britain for over 40 years!
The Great Britain team is as follows:
Kahunas (over 45)
Jed Stone (Newquay)
Gary Rogers (Saltburn)
Grandmasters (over 40)
Roger Knight (Newquay)
Daz Wright (Newquay)
Masters (over 35)
Grishka Roberts (Newquay)
Lee Bartlett (Newquay)
The British Team are taking a film crew with them
who will be producing footage of the team during
the event and in the aftermath, as well as sports
event coverage. The actual event itself will be
on live web-cam on the internet, so make sure you
tune in to watch all the action.
"The ISA is very proud of this event, which
clearly fills a vacuum in competitive surfing. Most
of the Federations members of the ISA already hold
Masters National Championships in their countries.
This ISA World Masters Surfing Championship will
provide a clear path for those older, yet very active
surfers around the world. This is going to be a
historic event." said ISA President, Fernando
Aguerre.
"The event will have a 7-day competition window,
right in the middle of the northern hemisphere winter.
The Rincon-Hangout.com will help us with the surf
report in order to identify the best days to run
the event, so things looks very promising and we
are excited about the idea of scoring epic conditions
during the contest." said Ricardo Lucke, President
of the Federacion de Surfing Puerto Rico and organizer
of the event.
You can see profiles & regularly updated info
on all the British Masters Team members on:
www.smsc-surfing.com
:: source : step-on press
    
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