Dubai, Scotland, And Maldives To Compete For The First Time In ISA History, Demonstrating The Global Development Of The Sport And Its Universality
A total of 22 countries and over 150 athletes and coaches are confirmed to participate in the historic Claro ISA 50th Anniversary World Surfing Games, held at the world-class Punta Rocas, Peru. Each National Team consists of up to 4 Open Men and 2 Open Women surfers plus Team Officials.
Chile’s Guillermo Satt, who placed 5th at the 2013 Reef ISA World Surfing Games in Panama, is warming up in Punta Rocas to get a podium finish at the Claro ISA 50th Anniversary World Surfing Games. Photo: ISA/Rommel Gonzales.
The confirmed countries are Argentina, Australia, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dubai, Ecuador, Israel, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia, Scotland, South Africa, Switzerland, Tahiti, Turkey, Uruguay and Venezuela.
Team South Africa will be looking to defend the Team Gold Medal, but don’t count out 2013 ISA World Surfing Games runners-up, Australia, and of course, Peru, who has proven to defend the home court, as they did at the 2010 ISA World Surfing Games held in Punta Hermosa, Peru.
“We are just a couple of days away from the Opening Ceremony and the start of the Claro ISA 50th Anniversary World Surfing Games in Peru. All National Teams have been announced and the athletes have begun to arrive in the iconic Southern-Peruvian coastal town of Punta Rocas, Peru, the same break where the World Surfing Championship was held in 1965,” remarked ISA President Fernando Aguerre.
“The surfers will be practicing at the world-class point break waves in preparation for the competition that begins with the Opening Ceremony on Friday and the competition on Saturday. Great surfing conditions and waves in the head high to overhead range in Peru are welcoming the delegations. As I like to remind all athletes, while a few competitors will go home with medals, all of them are already winners, as they are surfing as members of their National Surfing Teams.”
New Zealand’s Grace Spiers, who has competed in multiple ISA World Championships, will bring plenty of skill experience for Team New Zealand.
Surfline, the official forecaster of the event, has predicted pumping waves for the opening days of the competition followed by great surf for the whole contest period.
“We are tracking a moderate to potentially fairly solid SW swell for the first couple days of the event waiting period (24th-25th) from a storm now centered around 2000 miles from Peru,” said Surfline Forecaster Kevin Wallis. “That swell will receive reinforcements on the 26th-27th with the surf leveling off, before fading for the 28th-29th. A smaller, but possibly fun size, SW swell is currently on the long-range radar for the final couple days of the event.”
The full Surfline Forecast can be found on- http://isawsg.com/forecast/
Below is a full list of the confirmed teams. Please note team registration closes on Thursday and is subject to change. The final list will be found on- http://isawsg.com/teams/.
Argentina
Open Men:
- Santiago Muñiz
- Leandro Usuna
- Nahuel Rull
- Felipe Suárez
Open Women:
- Josefina Ane
- Lucía Cosoleto
Team Officials:
- Rubén Muñiz
- Cristian Petersen
- Santiago Di Pace
- Juan Baldino
Australia
Open Men:
- Hayden Blair
- Otis Carey
- Nicholas Squiers (Team Captain)
- Shane Holmes
Open Women:
- Philippa Anderson
- Jessica Grimwood
Chile
Open Men:
- Guillermo Satt
- Cristian Merelo
- Tristan Arcardi
- Nicolas Undurraga
Open Women:
- Jessica Anderson
- Lorena Fica
Team Officials:
- Juan Agustin Echeverria
- Diego Medina
- Francisco Veliz
Colombia
Open Men:
- Jefferson Tascon Prado
- Anderson Tascon Prado
- Alejandro Covo Meisel
- Daniel Olmos
Open Women:
- Sofia Loewy
- Margarita Conde
Alternates:
- Nestor Tello
- Andrés Espinosa
- Diana Palacios
Team Officials:
- Lena Lizarazo Sizâ
Costa Rica
Open Men:
- Gilberth Brown López
- Maykol Torres
- Anthony Fillingim
- Issac Vega
Open Women:
- Lisbeth Vindas
- Leilani Mc Gonagle
Alternates:
- Emily Gussoni
Team Officials:
- Gustavo Corrales
- Randall Chaves
Dubai
Open Men:
- Mohammad Rahma
Ecuador
Open Men:
- Jonathan Zambrano Chila
- Adrian Dapelo
Open Women:
- Dominic Barona
Team Officials:
- Xavier Aguirre Molina
- Byron Yagual de la Rosa
Israel
Open Men:
- Vladimir “Vovka” Merlis
- Yonatan Klein
Team Officials:
- Yossi Zamir
Japan
Open Men:
- Ryota Matsushita
- Kan Watanabe
- Sasuke Kawatani
- Yoji Osedo
Open Women:
- Nao Omura
- Hinako Kurokawa
Team Officials:
- Osamu Yoshinaga
- Kimifumi Imoto
- Manuel Tafur
Maldives
Open Men:
- Hussain Areef
- Ahmed Agil
- Ismail Miglal
- Mohamed Irushad
Team Officials:
- Ahmed Aznil
- Ahmed Rifaee
- Mohamed Hamza
Mexico
Open Men:
- Diego Cadena
- Angelo Lozano
- Mario Farias
- Mike Velasco
Open Women:
- Alma Denisse Martinez Salazar
- Pamela Verboonen
Alternates:
- Hector Soto
- Pablo Linares
- Emilio Linares
New Zealand
Open Men:
- JC Susan
- Tane Wallis
- Zen Wallis
Open Women:
- Grace Spiers
Team Officials:
- Janine Spiers
Panama
Open Men:
- Jean Carlos González
- Diego Salgado
- Roberto Díaz
- Gary Saavedra
Open Women:
- Samanta Alonso
- Sonia García
Alternates:
- José Luis Rodriguez
- Jhoanny Alfonso
Team Officials:
- Alirio Carles
- Maria Eugenia Calvo
- Geancarlo Loria
Peru
Open Men:
- Joaquin Del Castillo
- Cristobal De Col
- Gabriel Villaran
- Sebastian Alarcon
Open Women:
- Analí Gómez
- Melanie Giunta
Alternates:
- Alvaro Malpartida
- Vania Torres
Team Officials:
- Martin Dunn
- Gabriel Aramburu
- Renato Quezada
- Ricardo Kauffman
Puerto Rico
Open Men:
- Eduardo Roure (Team Captain)
- Ricardo Delgado
- Nicolas Moreda
- Tomas Bursian
Open Women:
- Kelly Laide Roca
- Bernice Cardona
Russia
Open Men:
- Sergey Rasshivaev
- Dmitry Zabula
- Ivan Fominykh
- Anton Morozov
Open Women:
- Irina Kosobukina
Scotland
Open Men:
- Mark Boyd
- Mark Cameron
- Iain Masson
- Andrew Robertson
Open Women:
- Phoebe Strachan
- Jennifer Wood
South Africa
Open Men:
- Casey Grant
- David Van Zyl
- Michael February
- David Brand
Open Women:
- Tanika Hoffman
- Faye Zoetmulder
Team Officials:
- Etienne Venter
- Johnny Bakker
Switzerland
Open Men:
- Benedek Sarkany
- Michael Zaugg
- Philip Mappes
- Christen Pascal
Open Women:
- Nataly Bernold
- Renate Bickel
Tahiti
Open Men:
- William Peckett
- Nils Despouy
Open Women:
- Valérie Poppke
- Karelle Poppke
Team Officials:
- Philippe Klima
Turkey
Open Men:
- Tunc Ucyildiz
Uruguay
Open Men:
- Segundo Vargas
- Sebastian Olarte
- Lucas Madrid
- Santiago Madrid
Open Women:
- Delfina Morosini
- Celia Barbosa
Alternates:
- Juan Pablo Fernandez
- Team Officials:
- Juan Malek
- Ariel González Teste
- Sebastian Gattas
The International Surfing Association (ISA), founded in 1964, is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. The ISA governs and defines Surfing as Shortboard, Longboard & Bodyboarding, StandUp Paddle (SUP) Racing and Surfing, Bodysurfing, Wakesurfing, and all other wave riding activities on any type of waves, and on flat water using wave riding equipment. The ISA crowned its first Men’s and Women’s World Champions in 1964. It crowned the first Big Wave World Champion in 1965; World Junior Champion in 1980; World Kneeboard Champions in 1982; World Longboard Surfing and World Bodyboard Champions in 1988; World Tandem Surfing Champions in 2006; World Masters Champions in 2007; and World StandUp Paddle (SUP, both surfing and racing) and Paddleboard Champions in 2012.
ISA membership includes the surfing National Governing Bodies of 104 countries on five continents. Its headquarters are located in La Jolla, California. It is presided over by Fernando Aguerre (Argentina), first elected President in 1994 in Rio de Janeiro. The ISA’s four Vice-Presidents are Karín Sierralta (PER), Kirsty Coventry (ZIM), Casper Steinfath (DEN) and Barbara Kendall (NZL).
