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Briton prepares for championships in Australia
by George Mojo
28/12/2006:// Briton Reubyn Ash is putting the final touches to his preparations for the start of the Billabong World Junior Championships in Australia.
Ash, from Widemouth Bay, in Bude, is one of 48 competitors going for gold in North Narrabean starting on New Year's Day
Past winners of the ASP event include three-times world senior champion Andy Irons, Australian Joel Parkinson, and Brazilian Adriano de Souza.
Ash, who rides for the Billabong UK team, is representing the specially-sanctioned International squad alongside Tamara McComb and Mason Ho.
The contestants have come from eight world surfing regions including Australasia, North America, South America, Hawaii, Asia, South Africa and Europe.
“This year’s event looks to be one of the best yet,” said ASP President Wayne Rabbit Bartholomew. “Just sifting through the names there are many who could not only win here at Narrabeen but could and will one day win at the sport’s top level.
“It is always a great event for uncovering our future super stars. That is if the competitors aren’t already stars in their own right,” he added.
The most notable of those who have tasted victory at the Billabong ASP World Junior Championships then have gone on to enjoy stellar top tour careers include Andy Irons, Australian Joel Parkinson, Brazil's Pedro Henrique and fellow South American Adriano de Souza and last year’s inaugural women’s event winner Jesse Miley-Dyer who forged on to claim Rookie Of The Year on the 2006 ASP Women’s World Tour.
This year's eventual victors will go on to stand alongside the 2006 Foster’s ASP World Tour champion American Kelly Slater and the ASP Women’s World Tour champion Layne Beachley at the official ASP world champion’s ceremony in March 2007 and will be crowned as the world's only true professional junior surfing champions.
Narrabeen, located 40 minutes north of Sydney’s famous Harbour Bridge, is iconic in the history of Australian surfing as its world-class wave is the stomping ground for many of the sport’s greatest athletes.
The locals watching over the vast array of new talent will include twice Foster’s ASP World Tour champion Damien Hardman, three-fin Thruster inventor Simon Anderson plus past top tour stalwarts including Nathan Hedge, Nathan Webster, Mark and Brett Bannister and Chris Davidson just to name a few.
The teams as they stand:
Junior Men:
USA– Eric Geiselman, Dylan Graves, Alex Gray, Nick Rozsa, Spencer Sterling
Europe – Joan Duru, Marc Lacomare, Jean Sebastien Estienne, Romain Cloitre, Adrien Toyon, Pierre Valentin Laborde
Africa – Rory Beach, Damien Fahrenfort, Keegan Nel, Brandon Jackson, Jordy Smith
Australasia – Wade Goodall, Julian Wilson, Dion Atkinson, Matt Wilkinson, Laurie Towner, Sam Page
Hawaii – Dusty Payne, Granger Larsen, Torrey Meister, Ola Eleogram, Hank Gaskell, Casey Brown
South America – Heitor Pereira (Brz), Matias Mulanovich (Peru), Halley Batista (Brz), Thiago Camarao (Brz), Bernardo Martins (Brz), Adriano De Souza
Japan – Hideyoshi Takana, Shu Hagiwara, Shota Nakamura, Kento Takahashi, Nobuyuki Osawa
International – Tamara McComb, Ruben Ash, Mason Ho Wild Cards – Heath Joske, T.J Barron
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