Roxy ASP Women's Longboard Championship To Commence Today
BIARRITZ, France (Monday, July 3, 2006) - The first two rounds of the Roxy ASP Women's World Longboard Championship (WWLC) will be held today at Côte des Basques, Biarritz, on France's Southwest coast.
This inaugural Roxy ASP WWLC will crown the first-ever ASP Women's Longboarding World Champion. More than 60 competitors, hailing from 10 different countries, will contest the half to one meter (two to three foot) waves this afternoon.
Surfers competing today will represent the USA, Australia, France, Japan, Brazil, Great Britain, Hawaii, Spain, Reunion Island, Holland and South Africa.
The Roxy ASP WWLC will run in conjunction with the Roxy Jam, a summer surf festival designed to celebrate the female surf lifestyle. Live music, art exhibitions and philanthropic activities will bolster Biarritz's already contagious surf vibe during the week-long event.
ROXY ASP WWLC DAY ONE HEATS
ROUND OF 72 (1st and 2nd advance to ROUND OF 60, 3rd = 61st place, 4th = 67th place)
HEAT 1: Miku Uemura (HAW), Noelle Rogers (USA), Cat Slatinsky (USA), Jenny McCarthy (AUS)
HEAT 2: Angela Madsen (USA), Gaelle Szymkowiak (FRA), Robin Hesson (USA)
HEAT 3: Kaoru Naito (JPN), Sormarie Nieves (USA), Candice O'Donnell (AUS)
HEAT 4: Erin Lewis (USA), Emma Fitzhenry (GBR), Coline Menard (FRA)
HEAT 5: Grace Davies (GBR), Schuyler McFerran (USA), Margaret Yao (USA)
HEAT 6: Hanalei Reponty (FRA), Melanie Fosse (RUN), Marie Vigne (FRA)
ROUND OF 60 (1st and 2nd advance to ROUND OF 48, 3rd = 49th place, 4th = 55th place)
HEAT 1: Ashley Lloyd (USA), Nina Blake (GBR), 1.1, 2.1
HEAT 2: Deanne Ashmore (GBR), Krisein Magelssen (HAW), 1.2, 2.2
HEAT 3: Bianca Valenti (USA), Clemence Godineau (FRA), 1.3, 2.3
HEAT 4: Marinane Bellegrade (FRA), Linde Logtenberg (HOL), 1.4, 2.4
HEAT 5: Kaitlin Maguire (USA), Kelly Coward (USA), 1.5, 2.5
HEAT 6: Kath Robinson (AUS), Yoko Furuchi (JPN), 1.6, 2.6
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ROXY ASP WOMEN'S WORLD LONGBOARD CHAMPIONSHIP FAST FACTS
WHAT:
The inaugural Roxy ASP Women's World Longboard Championship (WWLC) - the world's first-ever Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) sanctioned female longboarding championship.
WHO:
Sixty athletes will compete in the Roxy ASP WWLC; the winner will be the first female in history with an ASP Women's Longboarding World Title to her credit.
WHERE:
Côte des Basques, Biarritz, France - a surf-savvy village on the southwest coast of France, located in the Basque country just north of Spain.
WHEN:
>From July 3-9, 2006.
PRIZE MONEY:
The event offers an unprecedented US$30,000 in prize money. The winner of the Roxy ASP WWLC will earn US$4,500.
EVENT HISTORY:
This is the inaugural Roxy ASP WWLC. A non-ASP rated Women's World Longboard Championship has been held in the Americas for the past seven years and the new Biarritz event, under a multi-year contract signed by ASP and Roxy, will honor the past champions.
Those past champions include:
2005 - Kristy Murphy (Florida, USA)
2004 - Summer Romero (California, USA)
2003 - Daize Shayne (California, USA)
2002 - Kim Hamrock (California, USA)
2001 - Cori Schumacher (California, USA)
2000 - Cori Schumacher (California, USA)
1999 - Daize Shayne (California, USA)
Source: ASP
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