Noosa Festival of
Surfing finals decided in great waves at Noosa's first point
Noosa surfer Josh
Constable has won the Telstra Men’s Pro and Jennifer Smith (USA/California)
the Banana Boat Women’s Pro in excellent 1m surf at Noosa today!
Constable was the events defending champion and the 2006 ASP World Longboard
Champion made it 3 victories in total at this prestigious ASP World Rated
Longboard event.
After his win a delighted Constable said “Perfect start to the season for me
to win this event, I haven’t won that many events recently but to nail this
victory is fantastic – Everything worked perfectly today including the long
perfect waves on the point – Hopefully today’s win sets up the year for me –
It feels perfect now!”
Constable sealed today’s final on his second last ride which was awarded an
outstanding 9.23 out of a possible 10 and together with his second top
scoring ride of 8.43 to notch up a final tally of 17.66 out of 20.
Queensland’s Josh Constable , winner of the Telstra Men’s Pro at Noosa
Second place went to Coolum Sunshine Coast surfer Seb Wilson who was always
in contention after opening the final with an excellent 8.4 ride and on his
final ride found another excellent score of 8.1 to finish on 16.5 which was
considerably short of Constables 17.66.
Third place also went to a Sunshine Coast surfer in Grant Thomas with
Jackson Close, also Queensland, placing 4th in a high quality final.
Reigning Women’s World Longboard Champion Jennifer Smith dominated from
start to finish in the Women’s defeating Hawaiian surfer Jana Irons – final
scores Smith 17.33 to Irons on 14.87. Third place went to French surfer
Justine Dupont.
It was Smith’s second successive win in Australia having won at Phillip
Ilsand in Victoria last month – After her win today she said - “ What a
fantastic way to finish this amazing event in these perfect point waves – I
can’t believe it! – I’ve had an awesome time in Australia competing and free
surfing the whole coastline and to win today really caps it off!”
Highest placed Australian in the Banana Boat Women’s was Coolangatta surfer
Selby Riddle who placed 4th overall.
Perfect 1m surf greeted Australia and the world’s top longboard surfers for
the finals day of the 2008 Noosa Festival of Surfing. With an incredible 18
finals decided it was a massive day which culminated an amazing week of
surfing -
Finals Results – 1st to 4th left to right -
Telstra Men’s Pro – J Constable, S Wilson, G Thomas, J Close
Banana Boat Women’s Pro – J Smith, J Irons, J Dupont, S Riddle
GSI One Design – Alan Atkins, Ben Wallace, Bonga Perkins, Grant Price, Steve
Waldon, Jamie Willems.
SUP C4
Old Malibu – I Fields, R Goddard, J Healy, J Stuth, S Joske, L English
Noserider -
Under 18 Girls – R Pinsak, K Winter, S Walker, G Roach, M Keane , J Kelly
Under 18 Boys – B Young,
Under 15 Boys – D. Hunt, G Cunningham, E Norris, E Cunningham, N Jones, Z
Norris
Am Women –
Tandem – Rico and Sarah (France), Kalani and Ala, Brian and Kathy, Chuck and
Tiffany.
Am Men – B Haworth, J Brown, M Fraser, J Cooper, R Goddard, M Cuddihy.
Over 35 – D Coulter, M McNamarra, C Prewitt, C McHutchinson, S Montell, R
Johnson.
Over 50 – M Thompson, P Baggs, P Barley, P Sweeney, P White, D Smith
Over 60 – G Channon, N Smith, O Sistrunk, B Smith, D O’Donnell, I Walding
Over 35 Womens – S Jackson, S McComb, M Finucane , R Coombes, K Ross-Munro,
K Brown.
WSHF Invite - Dave Wilson (Best Wave), Doug Warbrick (Noseride), Barry
McGuigan (Best move), Ron Adler (Sportsmanship)
CEO Challenge – Quiksilver Europe, Quiksilver, Billabong
Champions of the surf! Possibly the biggest group photo of individual ASP surfing champions at Noosa today for the Noosa Festival of Surf = Back Row left to Right – Layne Beachley, Tom Carroll, Mick Fanning, Bonga Perkins (Hawaii), Wayne Bartholomew, Shaun Tomson (ZAF), Stephanie Gilmore, Luke Egan: Middle Row Left to right – Josh Constable, Peter Townend, Mark Richards, Damien Hardman and Tom Curren (USA) and front Row is Mark Occhilupo.
14 surfers, 13 of them hold ASP World Titles while Luke Egan placed 2nd in the world!