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South Africa

National Surfing Challenge is celebrating Women’s Day

Source: Surfing South Africa - www.surfingsouthafrica.co.za

Women’s Day Surf Challenge
Durban, Port Elizabeth and Cape Town
9 August 2011

National Women’s Day is being celebrated today by the surfing community through the holding of the second edition of the Women’s Day Surf Challenge presented by Surfing South Africa (SSA) and supported by Sport and Recreation South Africa.

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Slade Prestwich, Inge McLaren, Jordy Maree and Ethan Fletcher take Rip Curl Gromsearch titles at Trafalgar

Although the second Rip Curl Gromsearch in the series was scheduled to take place at Southbroom on the KZN South Coast, contest director Ant Brodowicz made a call to move the event to Trafalgar some 20 minutes south where conditions were far more contestable for the 12 to 16 year old boys and girls competing in this popular series.

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Current World Champions Chris Knutsen and Heather Clark included in SA Team for 2011 ISA World Masters Championships in El Salvador

Surfing South Africa has announced the names of the 2011 South African Masters Team that will compete in the ISA World Masters Championships at Punta Roca, El Salvador in October.

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Border wins SA Masters Cup plus four individual titles in epic surf at Nahoon Reef

The Border Masters surfing team won the interprovincial SA Masters Cup for the fifth consecutive year and added four of the seven individual titles to their tally as they completely dominated the 2011 South African Masters Surfing Championships in their home surf.

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Back to back Billabong Pro J-Bay titles for Jordy Smith

Billabong Pro J-Bay
Stop No. 4 of 11 on the 2011 ASP World Tour
Supertubes, Jeffreys Bay, South Africa
14-24 July 2011

South African surfing sensation, Jordy Smith, clinched his second consecutive Billabong Pro J-Bay title when he beat Australian Mick Fanning in a tense final held in testing 1.5 metre waves and strong onshore winds at Supertubes in Jeffreys Bay today.

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Under 16 Rip Curl Gromsearch Champion, Slade Prestwich (RSA), of Scottburgh. Photo: Mike Van Heerden

Heather Clark (RSA) from Southern KZN shows the form that brought her a 2nd consecutive ISA Women’s World Surfing Title in 2010. Photo: ISA/Gatica

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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