Surfing Vancouver Island The Canadian Team at the World Junior Surfing Championships by Stephen Mayor |
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The Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships is a week-long competition with 250 surfers from 27 countries including Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Hawaii, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Tahiti, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.
Two days of competitions complete and all the Canadian Jr's have completed in their 1st round. The only surfer to make it through was Noah Cohen in the boys Under 16 age group. A number of his team mates surfed well and advanced to the reporcharge portion of their divisions. The sea conditions for the first and second days where good with waves that have challenged their skills. Noah surfs in round 2 heat 3, today, October 11th, at 8:40AM Pacific time.
The Boys Under 16 got underway with all 24 heats in the first round of qualifiers. Early in the day in heat four, Kento Takashi from Japan outscored the favored home team USA's Hunter Heverly. Both surfers secured first and second place respectively to advance. In heat six, it was a tough battle for second place between Enrique Labarthe from Peru, a country with a long legacy of wave riding, against the underdog from Canada Noah Cohen. In the end, Cohen of Canada took second place with a 6.97, only 0.80 above Labarthe of Peru, and advanced to the next round of qualifiers. Peru and Chile dropped to the repercharges. "I went out there and tried to get the best waves possible," said Noah Cohen. "This is my first time surfing in California, the water is warmer than it ever gets in Canada and the waves have been great. I hope they hold out." Canadian Team
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Oct/07/2005
We hooked up with a few of the Canadian east coasters this morning, the balance arrived late this afternoon. Our first complete Team Canada session under Guto's direction is at 8:30 am tomorrow morning. Opening ceremonies at 2:00 pm, including the parade of nations and a nations beach sand ceremony. The word for tomorrow is "overhead", the Team is stoked! Hope to get some good shots... stay tuned. Oct/06/2005 morning
We're in Ventura CA this am, the Team's had a session, small but clean and fun waves. Photos are from training before we left and from our second day on the road at The Cove in Westport WA. Everyone's in great spirits, we'll be in Huntington this aft.
Oct/06/2005 afternoon We're in Huntington, crew hit the waves when we arrived around 4:00pm... We're all impressed with team Japan, really young and rippin'! Lots of young talent in the water. I'll be shooting tomorrow in the good light. Cheers
» Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships - Live Webcast
U16 Boys final - 30 min heat, total best two waves
U18 Girls - 30 min heat, total best two waves
U18 Boys final - 30 min heat, total points best two waves
ISA World Juniors Championships - awards ceremony On October 8th, 2005 the International Surfing Association, Quiksilver, Surfing America and the city Huntington Beach welcomed the national teams of 28 countries for the 2005 World Junior Surfing Championships. After nine days of competition Team Hawaii was on top, the 2005 World Junior Champions taking home the gold. The Hawaiian juniors had accumulated a total of 5,904 points. Brazil was in second capturing silver with 5,321 points, USA winning bronze with 5,173 points and Australia earning copper in forth with 4,966 points. "The 2005 Quiksilver ISA World Junior Surfing Championships has been a triumph of love for surfing," said ISA President Fernando Aguerre. "We've just seen nearly 300 junior surfers from 28 countries surf almost 5,000 waves in 270 heats over eight days with the conditions in Huntington remaining good throughout. Some athletes came from nations where the cost of a plane ticket is one year's salary and they've gone home knowing they've represented their countries well, worn their colors, waved their flags and done it all while doing what they love most, surfing. We've shown the world what the ISA and our surfing tribe know: There is more that unites us as surfers and human beings than separates us. With this amazing network of family, friends and supporters from around the globe this has been possible. Muchas gracias to Quiksilver and to all the teams."
The Quicksilver ISA 2005 World Jr. Championships wound up on October 16th with the event finals. The conditions had improved from the previous days but they where nothing like the solid head high conditions that the Championships began with. France - black jersey's, South Africa - yellow, USA - white and Australia - red...
The ISA Team Cup was the first final, contested by Australia, France, South Africa and USA, competing in a tag team event. Five surfers, four boys and one girl made up each team. One of the five is predetermined to be the "power surfer". That team member has to count each of their first three waves so wave selection is critical. The other four team members have the option of surfing three waves but select the two waves that they want counted. They signal the judges by raising both hands over their head to acknowledge the last wave counted. The most points over the one hour long heat takes the cup. This event has no bearing on the final outcome of the Championships but it's a fun departure and it demonstrates a different side of competitive surfing.
France powered through this years event to take the gold. South Africa took the silver, USA bronze and Austrailia copper.
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