42nd All Japan Surfing Championship

Source: Nippon Surfing Association
-http://www.nsa-surf.org/ 

The 42nd All Japan Surfing Championship was held 22/AUG – 26/AUG in Niijima, Tokyo for the first time in 5 years.  As the location is known as “Great Island to surf”, we all expected to be coming to be the big memorial event. Nearly 900 amateur surfers all around Japan gathered, and competed to be the champ in each category. (14 classes including short board, long board and body board)

Unexpectedly, we changed the site as there were no waves at the usual surf point. Getting there by driving or walking under burning strong sunshine was unpredictable for all competitors, which went on for 5 days.

Remarkably, junior surfers, especially Kids surfers aged under 12 heats were stunning and also, Girls class which is a new division for 2007.  A surfer who was involved in several ISA events, Miss. Sayuri Hashimoto won the game.

Results:
Kids class – Mr. Takumi Nakamura
Boys class- Mr. Akito Komuku
Junior class – Mr. Takuya Nahana
Men class – Mr. Masashi Uno
Senior class – Mr. Seiji Tamura
Mater class – Mr. Toshio Munemasa
Grand Master – Mr. Yoshinao Nakata
Girls class – Miss. Sayuri Hashimoto
Women class – Miss. Eri Oyanagi
Long Board class – Mr. Taiki Mori
Long Board Master class – Mr. Masao Noda
Long Board Women class – Miss. Yukiko Hirosawa
Body Board Men class – Mr. Hayato Enokido
Body Board Women class – Miss. Satomi Kishi

We will have the Grand Champion Games next month where surfers will compete for the amateur grand champion of 2007.

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