Junior surfers drop in world title waves
- 27 September 2011 | Surfing
The world's best surfers under 21-years-old have been selected to compete in the highly-coveted ASP World Junior Title. The ASP regions (North America, South America, Africa, Hawaii, Europe, Japan and Australasia) picked their greatest young wave riders to battle each other in three events.
These surfers will now shift focus from local events the Oakley ASP World Pro Junior, the first of three surf contests that will decide the 2011 ASP World Junior Champions.
Beau Emerton, former ASP World Tour campaigner and Oakley ASP World Pro Junior Contest Director is looking forward to another action packed first stop on the ASP World Junior Tour.
"Last year is going to be hard to top with the waves we got," Emerton said. "But we're going to try and pick the eyes out of it again and run some full days at Canggu and then hit the high tide at Keramas towards the end. I'm still dumbfounded by the performance level from last year.
"I think some of the World Tour guys would have struggled to win some of those heats, so I can't wait to see what goes down this time around. It's going to a great event!". The Oakley World Pro Junior Bali will run from October 3 - 14.
2011 Oakley ASP WJC Invites
Wild Card ASP Billabong - Peterson Crisanto
Wild Card ASP Arnette - Italo Ferreira
Wild Card ASP - Caio Ibelli
Wild Card ASP - Dean Bowen
Wild Card ASP Women - Felicity Palmateer
Wild Card ASP Women - Sarah Mason
Wild Card ASP Emerging Nation - Mateia Hiquily
Wild Card ASP Emerging Nation - Local trials
Wild Card Oakley - Local trials
Wild Card Oakley - Noa Deane
ASP South America Team
STAR - Filipe Toledo
STAR - Ian Gouveia
1 - Gustavo Machado
2 - João Abreu
3 - Deivid Silva
4 - Marco Fernandez
Girls
1 - Gabriela Leite
2 - Juliana Meneguel
ASP Australasia Team
STAR - Davey Cathels
STAR - Jack Freestone
1 - Thomas Woods
2 - Ryan Callinan
3 - Garrett Parkes
4 - Matt Banting
Girls
1 - Philipa Anderson
2 - Dimity Stoyle
ASP North America Team
STAR - Jake Halstead
STAR - Nat Young
1 - Conner Coffin
2 - Chase Wilson
3 - Andrew Doheny
4 - Evan Thompson
Girls
1 - Quincy Davis
2 - Lakey Peterson
ASP Europe Team
STAR - Maxime Huscenot
STAR - Medi Veminardi
1 - William Aliotti
2 - Vasco Ribeiro
3 - Frederico Morais
Girls
1 - Joanne Defay
2 - Maud Le Car
ASP Africa Team
STAR - Shaun Joubert
STAR - Dale Staples
1 - Beyrick De Vries
2 - Slade Prestwich
3 - Dylan Lightfoot
4 - Michael February
Girls
1 - Bianca Buitendag
2 - Faye Zoetmulder
ASP Hawaii Team
STAR - Kiron Jabour
STAR - Eziekeil Lau
1 - Keanu Asing
2 - Dylan Goodale
3 - Tanner Hendrickson
Girls
1 - Coco Ho
2 - Leila Hurst
ASP Japan Team
STAR - Kan Watanabe
STAR - Kaito Ohashi
1 - Arashi Kato
2 - Hiroto Arai
3 - Kaishu Tanaka
Girls
1 - Nao Omura
2 - Ren Hashimoto