SA Champ in winning form

Current SA Champion, Daniel Worsley of Cape Town, added another title to his belt by winning the Pro Division at the 3A rated Hot Buttered Pro Am on Monday. Daniel was crowned SA Champ in October of this year at the Rip Curl SA Championships in Herolds Bay, Southern Cape, and looks set to have an excellent year on the National circuit with a win in the first contest of 2006.

Lize-Mari Ras of Durban took the Women's title in her first contest in this division. Lize-Mari is the current Girls U/16 champion. In the girls U/16 division the title went to Kina Meyer, all the way from Mossel Bay. In the other hotly contested divisions, Vaughn Harris managed to sneak the win from Sasha Specker in the Dropknee division and Adam Morley blasted his way to 1st place in the Junior division. Local favourites Rheinhard du Toit managed a excellent 4th place in the dropknee division and Nick Phillips a 4th place in the Mens Division.

Competitors in the finals of each division had to battle it out in small, windy conditions in the afternoon after riding fun, hollow waves in the morning. The best waves seen in the contest where in the qualifying rounds which took place on Sunday, Day 1 of the competition. Conditions were great with 3 to 4 foot barreling waves for most of the days programme.

The hosts of the event, Northern KwaZulu-Natal Bodyboarding Association, would like to thank their sponsors for helping pull of their third successful event. Thanks go out to Hot Buttered Bodyboards, Bad Boy/Biotribe, the City of uMhlathuze Tourism Association, Alliance Graphic and Web Design, Macs Fish and Chips, MacDonalds Richards Bay and Protea Hotel Imvubu Lodge.

A DVD of all the action from the 2 day event will be available soon. Please contact John on 035-7723652 or 072 245 3996 to place your order or email john@gonet.co.za.

Results

Boys U/12

  1. Robbie Waites

Girls U/16

  1. Kina Meyer
  2. Liezl van Vollenhoven
  3. Geline Derbyshire
  4. Carrera Phillips

Development

  1. Stephen Janssens
  2. Wade Posthumus
  3. David Badenhorst
  4. Troy Sibilant

Masters

  1. Mike van Huysteen
  2. John Cawood
  3. John Cadman

Boys

  1. Bradley Moys
  2. Aden Kleve
  3. Terrence Pieters
  4. Janek Ferrandi

Men

  1. Wesley von Blerk
  2. Sascha Taljaard
  3. Karl Liebenberg
  4. Nick Phillips

Women

  1. Lize-Mari Ras
  2. Ilonka Warnich

Dropknee

  1. Vaughn Harris
  2. Sasha Specker
  3. Sascha Taljaard
  4. Rheinhard du Toit

Juniors

  1. Adam Morley
  2. Michael Ostler
  3. Joshua Kleve
  4. Dane Beales

Pro

  1. Daniel Worsley
  2. Alistair Taylor
  3. Wesley Fischer
  4. Phillip Rodrigues