Hogs Breath Café Longboard Legends Tour WA results

Hogs Breath Café Longboard Legends Tour

Event #5
Avalon Beach, Mandurah WA.
24 - 25 May 2003

Exceptional conditions prevail for Longboard Legends Tour

Two days of exceptional surfing conditions at Avalon Point, Mandurah rewarded surfers competing in round 5 of the Hogs Breath Café Longboard Legends Tour. With 2 metre plus waves, light winds and plenty of sunshine the competitors and spectators were all in longboard heaven.

In the World Surfaris/Sa’Moana Resort 9ft Pro Trigg Island’s Tim Fitzpatrick used a combination of sweeping turn to outclass Neil Thompson and series leader Jackson Close to win. Close still maintains a handy lead in the series going into the final event at Port Macquarie.

Some of the biggest waves of the contest came through during the women’s final. Former Australian champ Claire Finucane took off on the largest waves to beat Sam Vanderford for the second year in a row.

NSW’s Mitch Sheehy has made the art of nose riding his own after taking out his third win in 3 appearances on tour. With a total of 27.63 seconds Sheehy was well clear of second placed Paul Thompson on 16.90 seconds.

The Thompson Brothers from Margaret River put on an unbelievable display of synchronized surfing in the G Boards Family Teams. Choosing several well over head waves the Thompson’s executed everything from late takeoffs to crossovers to high speed turns and even a dead cockroach ride to keep the crowd entertained. They were closely emulated by the McCormick’s who eventually won courtesy of an age handicap system.

A series of snap turns in the critical part of the wave was the reason Burt Berger made it two in a row, successfully defending the Ebanc 9ft Amateur title. He was pushed all the way by Kevin Anderson with Joe Warwick third.

Jock Bahen lived up to his reputation as arguably the countries best old mal (boards constructed prior to 1967) winning this division from Paul Thompson with Kevin Anderson 3rd.

In the Under 18’s Rahn Goddard put on a class act scoring 17.5 out of 20 to easily account for NSW’s Jake Mills.

The tightest finish all weekend was in the Over 50’s division where defending round 5 champion Mick Marlin edged out Norm Batemen. Both surfers caught absolute howlers of rides to score 16.5 out of 20 for their two scoring waves with Marlin finally getting the win after a count back to their 4th waves.

Results:

World Surfaris/Sa’moana Resort 9ft Pro
1st Tim Fitzpatrick – Trigg Island
2nd Neil Thompson – Margaret River
3rd Jackson Close – Gold Coast
4th Dane Quirk – Margaret River

E Banc 9ft Amateurs
1st Burt Burger – Mandurah
2nd Kevin Anderson – Perth
3rd Joe Warwick – Scarborough
4th Jarryd Foster – Mullaloo
5th Jason Belcher – Mullaloo
6th Dan Corbett – Yallingup

Golden Breed Noserider
1st Mitch Sheehy – Foster
2nd Paul Thompson – Margaret River
3rd Jackson Close – Gold Coast
4th Nick Jenkins – Mandurah

Hobie U/18’s
1st Rahn Goddard – Cottesloe
2nd Jake Mills – Foster
3rd Dan Corbett – Yallingup
4th Todd Quartermaine – Mandurah
5th Mike Corbett – Yallingup
6th Cameron Hiscox – Coffs Harbour

Finch Women
1st Claire Finucane - Perth
2nd Sam Vanderford - Scarborough
3rd Angela King – Byron Bay
4th Jaala Buldock - Mulalloo

O/40’s
1st Bill Gibson – Margaret River
2nd Barry McKinnon – Perth
3rd Ron Dobich – Cottesloe
4th Peter Colinson – Mandurah
5th Norm Twight – Mandurah
6th Brad Belcher – Mullaloo

O/50’s
1st Mick Marlin - Mandurah
2nd Norm Bateman - Cottesloe
3rd Jon Dadd - Cottesloe
4th Gerry Peru - Cottesloe
5th Greg Redfern -Yallingup
6th Cat Weasel – Cottesloe

Old Mal
1st Jock Bahen – Cottesloe
2nd Paul Thompson – Margaret River
3rd Kevin Anderson – Cottesloe
4th Peter Dunn – Cottesloe
5th Cameron Hiscox – Coffs Harbour
6th Neil Thompson – Margaret River

G Board Family Teams
1st McCormicks – Mullaloo
2nd Thompson’s – Margaret River
3rd Corbett’s – Cottesloe
4th Goddard’s – Cottesloe

Cancer Council Mystery
1st Peter Clarke - Mullaloo
2nd Rob Shaw - Cottesloe
3rd Wes Newton - Cottesloe
4th Peter Bray - Mullaloo

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