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Rip Curl New Zealand Surfing Team End Campaign |
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Written by Ben Kennings
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Saturday, 28 May 2011 |
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| Grace Spiers - Image ISA / Marotta |
The Rip Curl New Zealand Junior Surfing Team ended their run at the 2011 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship today with the two remaining surfers being eliminated from the event and the team finishing in tenth place.
Whangamata’s Grace Spiers was New
Zealand’s top ranked surfer placing 19th
overall in the Under 18 Girls Division.
Spiers put on a top performance in her fifth round match up going toe to toe
with her opponents from Australia,
Peru and Brazil. After starting off with a 6.5 point ride
Spiers sat in second place for much of the heat. However with one minute remaining Vania
Torres (Peru)
managed to sneak a wave from under Spiers nose and surf to a 4.47 point ride
which was enough for progression scoring 11.57 to Spiers 10.67, and pushing her
back into third place and elimination from the event.
“I am a bit bummed that I got pipped in the last minute of the heat” said
Spiers.
“I was going well all heat, I followed my heat plan and it worked really
well but that girl got one at the end and unfortunately for me, she got the
score.”
Reflecting on the event Spiers was happy with her placing. “I knocked out some big guns on my way to 19th
which I was really stoked on and I placed in the top twenty surfers which was
my goal.”
Spiers now travels north to Central America
in preparation for the 2011 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games in less than one
months time. She feels this result has
given her the boost in confidence that she needs and has provided a good warm
up for the next event which takes place in Panama.
Raglan surfer Ben Poulter was New Zealand’s top placed male surfer
finishing in 21st place in the Under 18 Boys Division.
Despite a low scoring fourth place in the last heat of Poulter’s campaign, he
did start the day well placing second in his first heat defeating Francisco
Alves from Portugal and Ramzi Boukaim from Morocco.
In his last heat Poulter paddled into one of the first set waves but found
himself too deep to capitalise on a good early start. He then fell behind the play requiring an 8.0
point ride with less than half the heat remaining. “I needed an eight point ride with eight
minutes remaining so I went and sat right out the back waiting for a bomb and
it just went flat” said Poulter adding “I wasn’t going to get the score on an
inside wave.”
Poulter has a further year remaining in the Under 18 Boys Division where he
hopes to improve on his surfing to get a good result.
“I need to work on surfing tighter and faster on my forehand and just
surfing with confidence and doing those big first turns. I am happy with my performance this year but I
am not happy with where I came” said Poulter.
The Rip Curl New Zealand Junior Surfing Team will finish the event ranked tenth,
three places below their seventh placing in 2010. Australia
have regained their customary position at the top of the rankings ahead of Hawaii and South Africa with one day
remaining.
The Rip Curl New Zealand Junior Surfing Team includes surfers from six
regions throughout New Zealand with the small surf town of Whangamata providing
three surfers, Northland, Auckland, Raglan, Gisborne all providing two surfers
a piece with one representative from Mount Maunganui.
The event is being held at Punta Hermosa, Lima,
Peru from the
21st – 29th May with two arenas catering for a record 276
surfers from 27 countries competing at the event.
The final day of the 2011 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship
starts overnight Friday (1:00am, 29th May). You can catch the entire event live via World Junior Surfing Championship.
Please see below for current team points and results from the sixth day of the
2011 Quiksilver World Junior Surfing Championship being held in Peru.
Team Standings
1 – Australia
2 – Hawaii
3 – South Africa
4 – Peru
5 – USA
6 – France
7 – Brazil
8 – Tahiti
9 – Portugal
10 – New Zealand
Overall Rip Curl New Zealand Junior
Surfing Team Placings
Under 18 Boys
21st - Ben Poulter (Rag)
33rd - Tane Wallis (Piha)
41st - Joe Moretti
(Mimiwhangata)
41st - Todd Doyle (Mnt)
Under 18 Girls
19th - Grace Spiers (WGM)
31st - Jayda Martin – Fitzharris (Gis)
49th - Ella Williams (WGM)
49th - Alexis Poulter (Rag)
Under 16 Boys
31st - Elliot Paerata – Reid
(Piha)
43rd - Paul Moretti
(Mimiwhangata)
43rd - Adam Grimson (Gis)
61st - Dune Kennings (WGM)
Day six New Zealand Results
Under 18 Boys Repechage Round 5
Heat 3
1, 13.17, Sidney Guimaraes, BRA, 2, 9.33, Ben Poulter, NZL, 3, 9.20, Francisco
Alves, POR, 4, 5.03, Ramzi Boukaim, MOR
Under 18 Boys Repechage Round 6
Heat 4
1, 15.00, Conner Coffin, USA, 2, 11.60, Creed McTaggart, AUS, 3, 8.90, Jake
Halstead, USA, 4, 5.90, Ben Poulter, NZL
Under 18 Girls Repechage Round 5
Heat 1
1, 16.83,
Ellie-Jean Coffey, AUS, 2, 11.57, Vania Torres, PER, 3, 10.67, Grace Spiers, NZL, 4, 4.27, Estafany Freitas, BRA
The World Junior Surfing Championships is an annual event having been
held since 2003. New Zealand has
competed at the event since its inception as well as competing at the World
Grommet Titles as it was formerly known since 1989. New Zealand
has been one of the top nations at each event with Jay Quinn (Gis) securing New Zealand’s
first World Championship in the Under 18 Men’s division in 2001. In 2010 the New
Zealand team placed seventh at the event when it was held
in New Zealand
for the first time in the events history.
Further
Information
For further information on the Rip Curl New Zealand
Junior Surfing Team please contact Surfing New Zealand’s Ben Kennings on 021
2278732 or email benkennings@surfingnz.co.nz.
Imagery
High resolution action images of team members will be available to media free
of charge upon request.
Surfing New Zealand Newsletter
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inbox then sign up to the SNZ
Newsletter.
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Facebook and SNZ Twitter sites
and leave your messages of support.
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are proudly partnered by:
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