Roxy Womens Surf Festival 2006

ASP Australasia 5 star WQS
Phillip Island, Victoria,
24  - 29 January 2006

Results/Heatdraws

Heather Clark takes third in Roxy Women’s Surf Festival in Australia

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 29 January, 2006 : - - South Africa’s sole representative on the ASP World Championship Tour (WCT) for the past six years, Heather Clark from Port Shepstone, earned R10 000 and an invaluable 1 460 ratings points when she finished third in the 5 Star WQS rated R150 000 Roxy Women’s Surf Festival on Phillip Island off the coast of Victoria, Australia on Sunday. 

The 34 year-old KwaZulu-Natalian was defeated in the semi-finals by eventual winner and two-time ISA world junior champion Stephanie Gilmore (Aus) who celebrated her 18th birthday in style when she also clinched the Pro Junior (U20) title at the event. 

Billed as a match-up of Australia’s three women’s world champions, Clark was the last remaining international surfer in the tournament. Gilmore went on to defeat recently crowned ASP world junior champion Jessi Miley-Dyer in a one-sided final and also claimed five of the top six accumulated heat scores and the same number of the top individual wave scores in the tournament. 

South Africans featured prominently in the Pro Junior event with 16 year-old Nikita Robb again the standout. The East Londoner cruised to the semi-finals against girls up to four years her senior before being eliminated to add a third place finish to the third place she clinched in the ASP world junior champs in Sydney in the first week of January. 

Robb also won two international junior events last year, one each in Australia and in the USA, making her the country’s most successful junior female surfer. 

World tour travelling companions Tammy-Lee Smith (Salt Rock, KZN) and Rosanne Hodge (East London) both reached the quarter-finals in the Pro Junior event with Hodge taking fifth place overall when she finished third in her heat behind Robb and eventual runner-up Paige Hareb (NZ). Smith garnered seventh overall when she placed fourth in her quarter-final heat. 

The next event on the 2006 women’s World Qualifying Series (WQS) calendar is the 4 Star rated, R120 000 Costao do Santinho Surf Pro in Florianopolis, Brazil from February 13-18. Clark starts her WCT campaign against the world’s top 16 rated female surfers at the R390 000 Roxy Pro on Australia’s Gold Coast from February 28 – March 12.

Previous reports:
# 1 : Roxy Women's Surfing Festival a giant women's event
# 2 : Georgeson heads field of Aussie champs at Roxy Pro
# 3 : Roxy Pro attracts over 200 surfers from 3 generations
# 4 : Airini Mason leads charge at Roxy Pro WQS Phillip Is.., 
# 5 : Georgeson and champions reign supreme at Roxy Pro 
# 6 : World Champions battle royale looms at Phillip Island
# 7 : Miley Dyer eliminates Chelsea Georgeson at Roxy Pro
# 8 : Heather Clark surfs into semi's in Roxy Womens Pro

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