The Austrian Surfing Championships 2013 will be held at Ribeira d'Ilhas, in Ericeira, Portugal, from September 16th to 20th.
Although Austria is not blessed with a natural coastline, a group of hardcore surfers in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's country enjoy river waves in Silz and Graz.
The Austrian Surfing Federation was founded in Graz back in 1997.
It aimed at allowing Austrian surfers to compete in national and international amateur competitions.
From 1997 to 2003, seven Austrian Championships were held, and the best surfers had the chance to represent their country in two European Surfing Championships and two World Surfing Games.
A new era of Austrian surfing began at the end of 2005, as a new crew of surfers sought to build upon earlier achievements and realize their own ideas and concepts, thus creating a new individual nature of Austrian surfing.
To begin with, the association's name was changed to Austrian Surfing (AS), and its base was moved to Innsbruck.
In 2010, 90 Austrian surfers completed the International Surfing Association's (ISA) surf instructor courses.
Jonas Bachan (Open Men), Lisa Veith (Open Men), Benjamin Richter (Longboard), and Philipp Lamprecht (Masters) are the 2012 Austrian surfing champions.