Rip Curl Boardmasters

ASP WQS 5 Star Men's Event
ASP WQS 5 Star Women's Event
Fistral Beach Newquay England
4 - 9 August 2008

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Rip Curl Boardmasters set to start Tuesday in Newquay

Surfersvillage Global Surf News, 4 August, 2008 : - - Newquay -- The Rip Curl Boardmasters, an Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 5-Star event, will start tomorrow Tuesday, August 5 at Fistral Beach, one of Great Britain's most renowned beaches, launching the Surf and Music Festival where thousands of people are expected.

The world's best qualifying campaigners will attend the event to battle for the prestigious crown during one week of top surfing action and grab the valuable 2000 ratings' points going to the winner. Ben Bourgeois (North Carolina, USA), defending champion now among the ASP Top 45, will not defend his crown and leaves an open door to a new champion this year.

Among those in contention will be current ASP WQS ratings' No. 2 David Wear (ZAF), a former champion at Newquay and former ASP World Tour member, who has been on a good roll this year with a win on his home lands of Durban in the ASP WQS 6-Star Prime event in April and an equal 3rd in Scotland's ASP WQS 6-Star Prime. With two major results already secured, Weare will be confident and going for a second crown in the British waters of Fistral Beach.

The Rip Curl Boardmasters is the first of a series of six major ASP WQS event that will take place across Europe, from England to Portugal including France and Spain, until September 14.

Previous reports:
# 1 : Rip Curl Boardmasters returns for 27th year in Newquay
# 2 : Coming soon
# 3 : Coming soon
# 4 : Coming soon  

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