|
Surfing New Zealand Win’s Excellence Award |
|
Written by Ben Kennings
|
|
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 |
 |
|
Bob Bigelow and Greg Townsend
|
Surfing New Zealand won the Event Excellence Award at the 2011 New Zealand Sport and Recreation Awards last night (Monday 18th April) for the hosting of the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championship held at Piha Beach, Auckland in January last year.
Surfing New Zealand Executive Officer Greg Townsend was present to accept the
award.
“This is a
fantastic honour for our organisation, and I would very much like to thank
SPARC and the judges for this award.”
“We couldn’t be happier for the event to be acknowledged in this way and win an
award amongst such strong competition.”
The finalists for the award were the World Junior Surfing Championship, the
2010 FIS Freestyle and Snowboard Junior World Championships and the Fifteenth
FINA Women’s Water Polo World Cup.
Held in Piha from 20-28 January 2010, the 2010 Quiksilver ISA World Junior
Championship showcased more than 200 of the best under-18 surfers from around
the world.
“Last year we
staged what was the largest single event in the organisation’s history. This
event, bringing together over 200 of the world’s best young surfers, was from
all viewpoints a fantastic success. Our wonderful sponsors including SPARC,
bought into our vision of what the country’s largest surfing event should look
like, and a great team, volunteers and professionals alike, fully delivered
into this vision” said Townsend.
The judges said Surfing New Zealand were deserving winners due to the
professional way the event was run. This was the first time the event was held
in Australasia and it achieved a high profile.
Information
For more information on the award or to speak to Surfing New Zealand’s
Executive Officer Greg Townsend, please contact Ben Kennings on 07 8250022 or
021 2278732. Alternatively email benkennings@surfingnz.co.nz.
Follow Surfing New
Zealand
Keep in touch with all the surfing info
from around the country by following Surfing New Zealand’s social media
networks.
Surfing
New Zealand Facebook
Surfing New Zealand Twitter
Surfing New Zealand
Newsletter
If you want to keep updated with surfing information right to your inbox then
sign up to the SNZ
Newsletter
Surfing New Zealand are proudly partnered by:
SOL
Hyundai
SPARC
Smokefree
Ends
|
