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Sweden

Sweden is Back and Ready for the Billabong ISA World Surfing Games

Source: Swedish Surfing Association - http://surfforbundet.se

After several years, the Swedish Open Surfing Team is back in the ISA World Surfing Games with an almost full team of six surfers that will be defending their country flag at Punta Hermosa, Peru, from October 19 until the 27th.

Swedish National Surfing Team is formed by:

Open Men

Zafer Taylor

Freddie Meadows

Open Women

Malin Göransson

Eugenia Perez

Longboard

Göran Sivertsson

Patrick Ingverud

The Swedish flag will fly again at the World Surfing Games. Photo: Sweden Surfing Federation

About the International Surfing Association

The International Surfing Association (ISA) is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. It was originally founded as the International Surfing Federation in 1964 and has been running Open Division World Championships since 1964, Junior World Championships since 1980, and Masters World Championships since 2007. The ISA will hold the first Stand Up Paddle (SUP) World Championship and the first World Bodyboard Championship in 2011.

ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies of 64 countries on five continents. Its headquarters are located in San Diego, California. It is presided over by Fernando Aguerre (Argentina), first elected President in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro and re-elected seven times since. The ISA's three Vice-Presidents are Alan Atkins (Australia), Mike Gerard (USA) and Kar�n Sierralta (Peru).

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