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Brazil’s Italo Ferreira celebrates his Gold Medal performance at the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games in Miyazaki, Japan.
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ISA World Championship Series

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ISA World Championship Series

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Brazil’s Italo Ferreira celebrates his Gold Medal performance at the 2019 ISA World Surfing Games in Miyazaki, Japan.

The ISA World Championship Series was born in 1964 with the first men and women surfing World Champions crowned at the ISA World Surfing Championships in Manly Beach, Australia.

Since then, the series has grown and developed to include an array of surfing disciplines.

As the only Olympic-style team events in surfing, the ISA World Championship Series gathers athletes from all continents of the globe in peace to represent their nations and go for Gold.

 

 

ISA World Surfing Games

The ISA’s open division shortboarding surfing championships for all men’s and women’s national teams, the World Surfing Games, were first run in 1964 as the World Surfing Championships in Manly Beach, Australia. Shortboarding combines power, performance and aerial maneuvers. Over the years, the World Surfing Games have featured some of the world’s best surfers representing their countries competing for individual titles and vying for the coveted Fernando Aguerre World Team Trophy. Now the World Surfing Games is a key step in the pathway to qualify for the Olympic Games.

 

ISA World Junior Surfing Championship

The world’s premier competition for U-18 and U-16 boys and girls shortboard surfers, the ISA World Junior Surfing Championship, was first hosted in 1980 in Biarritz, France, where legendary surfer Tom Curren (USA) became the first ISA Junior World Champion. Since then the event has showcased the early careers of some of the world’s best professional surfers including Gabriel Medina, Tatiana Weston-Webb, Filipe Toledo, Tyler Wright, Alejo Muniz, Laura Enever, Sally Fitzgibbons, Julian Wilson, Owen Wright, Stephanie Gilmore, Matt Wilkinson, Caroline Marks, and Jordy Smith. The event is a mejor development milestone for U-18 surfers around the world and a glimpse into the future stars of the sport.

USA’s Caroline Marks earned U-16 Gold at the 2016 ISA World Junior Surfing Championship in the Azore Islands of Portugal.

ISA World Para Surfing Championship

The ISA World Para Surfing Championship was created in 2015 to give surfers with physical challenges an opportunity to compete and display their talents in a Paralympic-style, world-class competition. Athletes with physical challenges that range from limb amputations to visual impairment are placed in classification divisions to compete for gold medals and celebrate the transformational, healing power of surfing. The ISA hopes to use this event as a platform towards eventual Paralympic inclusion.

France’s Eric Dargent competes in the ISA World Para Surfing Championship in La Jolla, California, USA.

ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship

The ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship combines the disciplines of SUP Surfing, SUP Racing and Paddleboard Racing. The world’s best SUP Surfers, SUP Racers and Paddleboard racers compete for individual Gold Medals and the Club Waikiki-Peru ISA World Team Champion Trophy awarded to the team that accrues the most overall points. Since the inaugural edition in 2012, the event has been the fastest growing on the ISA World Championship Series, with participation more than doubling since its inception.

Esperanza Barreras of Spain en route to Gold at the 2019 ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship in El Salvador.

ISA World Longboard Surfing Championship

Longboarding has become one of the most attractive and accessible disciplines of surfing. It is contested on a variety of waves and combines elegance, style, and maneuvers on a board of at least 9 feet in length. Traditionally part of the ISA World Surfing Games, the event was held for the first time as a stand-alone competition in 2013 in Peru.

France’s Alice Lemoigne steps her way to Gold at the 2019 ISA World Longboard Championship in Biarritz, France.

ISA World Masters Surfing Championship

Featuring some of the legends of the sport who are still keen to compete at an elite level, the ISA World Masters Surfing Championship is a team competition for surfers over 35 years of age. The ISA introduced the World Masters event in 2007 in Puerto Rico and it has been held 6 times since.

Australia’s Layne Beachley earns Gold at the 2013 ISA World Masters Surfing Championship in Ecuador.

ISA World Bodyboard Championship

The ISA World Bodyboard Championship gathers the best bodyboarders around the world in a unique team competition. Bodyboarding was traditionally a division of the ISA World Surfing Games, which has crowned Open Men’s World Bodyboarding Champions since 1988 and Open Women’s World Bodyboarding Champion since 1996. The ISA held its first standalone Bodyboard World Championship in 2011 in the Canary Islands. In 2012 and 2013, the competition was hosted in Playa Parguito, Venezuela. In 2014 and 2015 it was held in Iquique, Chile.

Team France’s Pierre Louis Costes deep in the tube at the 2015 ISA World Bodyboard Championship in Iquique, Chile.
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