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A Tight Race for the Title

Last Updated on Tuesday, 18 October 2011 13:53

Here's how the standing look heading into the event:

*(Apologies on the tables, we couldn't make them as clear as we wanted).

With only the riders' best five results counting to their final point tally, this is the minimum result they need to improve their current ranking:

Therefore, this is the maximum point score they can achieve at Kiama, given their placing in the event (i.e. if Lester finishes fourth then he moves to 4296 points and can possibly overtake Rawlins & Novy for the title should they not finish higher than 25th (Rawlins) or 13th (Novy) :

All this means that it's going to be one heck of a battle in the Rebel Sport Pro on Sunday!

The National Titles Timetable

For all those of you that are keen to check out the action from the National Titles, here's the details of what's going down:

Tuesday Oct 18th: Cadet and Grommet Divisions

Wednesday Oct 19th: DK, Senior and Junior Divisions

Thursday Oct 20th: Open Men, Open Women and Pro Men Divisions

Friday Oct 21st: -details to come-

Saturday Oct 22nd: Masters, Pro Women, Pro DK and Grand Masters Divisions.

Sunday Oct 23rd: -details to come-

NSW School Bodyboarding Titles

The first day of competition at Kiama got underway today with the NSW School Bodyboarding Titles. Representatives from the far North Coast to the South Coast turned up and battled it out for the bragging rights as the best bodyboarder in the NSW school system.

Two divisions were contested and the results were as follows:

Under 16 Boys

1st Slade Napier – Central Coast

2nd Daniel Thompson – South Coast

3rd Zac Appleby – Central Coast

4th Josh Mason – North Coast

Under 19 Boys

1st Austin Buckley - South Coast

2nd Billy Verco – North Coast

3rd Nathan James – South Coast

4th Jack Hoy – Sydney

Michael Harris from the Australian School Surfing Association was pleased with the outcome. “Its been a great success and we will look to partner with IBA Australasia again in 2012” he said. “Next year we are taking the concept to all states and making this event the National Scholastic Bodyboarding Titles” he added.

Tomorrow the action begins at 9am with the Cadets and Grometts hitting the water for the RAW National Titles.

Check the IBA Australasia website for more news and updates.