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Fuerteventura PWA Grand Slam
Sarah-Quita Offringa & Marcilio Browne win freestyle event
Ten days of intense high wind competition sees a World Champion crowned, one of racings biggest players drop out of contention through injury, and a shake up of the both the race and freestyle ranks after a historic showdown on Sotavento beach. -
ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship
Monahan Crowned World Longboard Champ’ in Biarritz
Joy Monahan (Oahu,HAW), 22, became the 2008 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) Women’s World Longboard Longboard #Longboard Champion today after winning the Roxy Jam event at La Cote des Basques in Biarritz. Monahan, who defeated runner-up Chelsea Williams (Gold Coast, AUS) in an exciting 30-minute final, posted a solid (...) -
The Artemis Transat
Samantha Davies 5th and 1st Briton to finish
Thirty-three year old Samantha Davies has become the first Briton to finish The Artemis Transat 2008 solo race in Boston, USA. Samantha sailed her 60-foot monohull Roxy across the finish line at 23:00:51 GMT (19:00 local time) yesterday (26 May) in a time 15 days, 10 hours, 00 minutes and 51 seconds. For the last 24 hours 24 hours 24 hours (...) -
Women’s Match Racing
Claire Leroy retains world champ
Sunday 6 April, on the Waitemata Harbour in Auckland, New Zealand, Claire Leroy of France secured her second consecutive world championship title in the sport of women’s match racing. -
Ceremony
Dame Ellen MacArthur receives Legion d’Honneur
At a ceremony at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich on Thursday, 27th March, BT Team Ellen skipper Dame Ellen MacArthur, was awarded France’s highest decoration, the Légion d’Honneur by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. This was a formal recognition of the award that was bestowed upon Ellen after she set a new solo non-stop (...) -
Barcelona World Race
Escoffier & Barguès 5th in Barcelona
Barcelona-born sailor Albert Bargués and French yachtswoman Servane Escoffier sailed into home waters this morning at 06:55:02 GMT to finish the Barcelona World Race Barcelona World Race #barcelonaworldrace in 5th place, after an epic 108 days 18 hours, 55 minutes and 2 seconds, sailing a total distance of 27,892 miles at an average speed (...) -
Billabong ASP World Junior Championships
Aussie Sally Fitzgibbons wins 07 junior world title
ASP Australasian Champion Sally Fitzgibbons (AUS) may have been one of the smallest competitors in the Billabong World Junior Championships but her performances were by far the biggest; the diminutive was surfer crowned the 2007 ASP World Junior Champion, at Sydney’s North Narrabeen Beach (...) -
ASP World Tour
Stephanie Gilmore 2007 rookie and world champ
Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) has just made ASP History as the first-ever surfer to claim the ASP World Title in their rookie season, having bested fellow contenders Sofia Mulanovich (PER) and Silvana Lima (BRA) in Round 3 competition at the Billabong Pro Maui at Honolua (...) -
Billabong Girls Pro • Itacaré Brazil
Sam Cornish captures first crown in 4 years
Rising out of a four-year shadow, 26-year-old Samantha Cornish (AUS) won her first ASP Women’s World Tour title since 2003, at the Billabong Girls Pro Itacaré, this morning. Cornish defeated Brazilian sensation Silvana Lima (BRA) with 12.00 points (out of a possible 20.00) to Lima’s 8.10, winning US$ 12,000 and simultaneously (...) -
Roxy ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship
Jennifer Smith crowned 07 longboard world champ
Jennifer Smith (USA) has been crowned the 2007 ASP Women’s World Longboard Longboard #Longboard Champion, following her victory in the Roxy ASP WWLC in Biarritz, France this afternoon. “I feel so blessed to be in the situation I’m in right now,” Smith said. “I made the final last year and lost, so to come back (...)
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