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Roxy ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship head for Biarritz
by George Mojo
12/04/2006:// It's been announced the Roxy ASP Women’s World Longboard Championship, the world’s premiere ASP-sanctioned women’s longboard event, will make its debut in the beachbreaks of Biarritz, in France.
Held as part of the Roxy Jam Biarritz, a festival designed to celebrate women’s surfing in and out of the water, the inaugural Roxy ASP WWLC from July 3 to 9, will award the first-ever ASP Women’s Longboarding World Title, an internationally recognized honor.
A non-ASP rated Women’s World Longboard Championship has been held in the Americas for the past seven years and the new Biarritz event, under a multi-year contract signed by ASP and Roxy, will honor the past champions and boast an unprecedented prize purse.
Open to both proven competitors and emerging talent from across the globe, the Roxy ASP WWLC will feature female longboarding’s finest, while at the same time giving the sport some well-deserved limelight on an international stage.
“I am really excited about incorporating women's longboarding as a world championship discipline,” said ASP President, Wayne “Rabbit” Bartholomew.
“In its inaugural year, the Roxy ASP Women's World Longboard Championship will definitely attract the very best exponents in the world, and it's about time the girls strutted their stuff on the world stage. The legendary surfing city of Biarritz will play host to this special event and it will be quite a show.”
Located on the Basque southwest coast of France, the surf-lifestyle town of Biarritz is a perfect fit for the international festival. Various art exhibitions and environmental awareness activities, as well as a music festival headlined by female bands playing at sunset each day will run in tandem with the surf event.
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