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World Surfing Games 2014 - Punta Rocas, Peru

The International Surfing Association (ISA) has announced that it will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year at the ISA World Surfing Games in Punta Rocas, Peru. The event will bring together surfers from all over the world to compete in Team, Men's and Women's divisions during the surfing competition that will double up as a global celebration of the sport's governing body hosting half a century of world class surfing championships.
17. 9. 2014

Taking place from October 24 to November 1, 2014, the ISA 50th Anniversary World Surfing Games will be held at the world-class Punta Rocas - the same location as the 1965 ISA World Surfing Championship, which was won by Peruvian local, Felipe Pomar and American Joyce Hoffman. The 2013 edition of the World Surfing Games featured 24 teams and more than 150 athletes from all continents and the ISA is anticipating increased participation figures this year. 


Photo: © Michael Tweddle

 

It was team South Africa who celebrated becoming the world champions last year in Santa Catalina ,Panama after defending champions Australia and emerging surfing powerhouse Peru and Brazil, who earned silver, bronze and copper medals respectively.


Shaun Joubert - Photo: © Rommel Gonzales

On occasion of the games, ISA will celebrate its 50th birthday. The sport’s roots reach back centuries, but on a summer day in 1964 the first ever World Surfing Championship was held at Manly Beach, Australia. In the new sport’s first major upset, Australian Midget Farrelly edged out America’s Mike Doyle and Hawaii’s Joey Cabell to take the win.


Photo: © Michael Tweddle


Photo: © Rommel Gonzales

Holding the first world championship wasn’t the only pivotal event that year for the sport. In Hawaii, Greg Noll and Mike Stange took on outer reef Pipeline for the first time. Bruce Brown released his seminal film, The Endless Summer. And of course, “The World Contest” at Manly. Organized by Bob Evans, and with surfers in attendance from Australia, Hawaii, the United States and Peru, more than 65,000 people found their way to the beach to watch Farrelly hot dog his way into history. Up to that point it was the largest crowd to ever attend a surf contest. During the competition, the foundational meeting of the ISA (then called ISF) was held, and Eduardo Arena, from Peru was elected its first president. The rest is a history.


1964 World Surfing Championship winners (Midget Farrelly, Mike Doyle and Joey Cabell. Photo: © Jack Eden

Don't miss it. Not only we can look forward to the battle for the most prestigious team title in world surfing but also celebrate one of the oldest practiced sports on earth.

Photos: © ISA, copyright applied.

Source: http://www.isasurf.org

17. 9. 2014
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