Strong Australian team will defend the Gold in Portugal

Australia, Champion of the 2007 World Surfing Games, will travel to Portugal to defend the gold medal with a strong team that will be one of the highlights in Costa de Caparica’s waves from October 11-19.

Surfing Australia, the head of this sport in the kangaroos’ country, did not have any problem finding some of the best surfers in the planet to form their team. Thus, the talented members of the WCT Kai Otton, Dayyan Neve and Claire Bevilacqua will be part of the team, as well as the great junior star Sally Fitzgibbons, former ISA World Junior Champion.

Australia will defend the Gold Medal for teams with the following team:

OPEN MEN
Dayyan Neve
Kai Otton
Matt Bemrose
Heath Joske

OPEN WOMEN
Sally Fitzgibbons
Claire Bevilacqua

BODYBOARD MEN
Ben Gohl
David Michael Crowley

BODYBOARD WOMEN
Lilly Pollard

LONGBOARD
Harley Ingleby

Team Manager
Mark Lane

COACH
Jake Paterson

ASSISTANT COACH
Luke Egan

SPORTS MEDIC
Matt Butel

The Australian Team has the best record in ISA World Surfing Games’ history. Six editions of these Games have been organized since 1996, and Australia has won three of them -1998, 2004 and 2006. It has also obtained the third position in two occasions -1996 and 2000- and a second place in 2002. They are the big favourite to win the Gold again.

About International Surfing Association
The International Surfing Association (ISA) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the World Governing Authority for surfing, bodyboarding and surfriding. It was originally founded as the International Surfing Federation in 1964 and has been running world championships since 1964 and the Junior World Championships since 1980. 

ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies (NGBs) of over 50 countries on six continents. Its headquarters are located in San Diego, California. It is presided by Fernando Aguerre, first elected in 1994 in Rio, and re-elected six times since.  The ISA's four Vice Presidents are Alan Atkins (Australia), Robin de Kock (South Africa), Maile Aguerre (Hawaii) and Mike Gerard (USA).

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