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Entries Pouring in for ARB World Cup ahead of Deadline |
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Written by Gameplan Media
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
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 Durban, South Africa - Entries for the ARB Surf Ski World Cup have
started to pour into the event office ahead of the entry deadline at midnight
on Wednesday.
The rapidly snowballing list of entries reflects paddlers from every corner of
South Africa, and a big international contingent.
Entries have been lodged by paddlers from Australia,
New Zealand, the United States, Tahiti, as well as the French Caribbean. France
has entered a large team, thanks to the recent recognition by the International
Canoe Federation as an ICF Sanctioned World Cup event.
Lewis Laughlan, the Tahitian paddler who won the Molokai title a fortnight ago
has already submitted his entry. He was the highest placed international participant
last year.
 Hank McGregor - winning the 2006 edition of the ARB World Cup
Defending champion Hank McGregor has also confirmed his participation, as have
a host of local surf ski stars including Dawid Mocke, Matt Bouman, Oscar and
Herman Chalupsky, Darryl Bartho and Clint Pretorius.
 Matt Boumann - competition?
Around 350 paddlers are expected to take part in the event, making it the
biggest World Cup event thus far, in addition to sporting the most prize money
ever offered for a surf ski event.
"This event has stepped up a number of gears from the very successful ARB Surf
Ski World Cup last year," said Butch Murray, the chairperson of the organizing
committee. "The vision for this event is to entrench Durban as the surf ski
capital of the world."
The overall winners prize of R80 000 is also the largest paddling prize on
offer for any paddling event worldwide.
 Hank - on form SA Champ
Late entries will be accepted, but a penalty will be levied for the late entry.
The ARB Surf Ski World Cup will take the form of a 25km to 30km single ski
championship race, to be held on either Saturday 30 June or Sunday 1 July, to
take advantage of the best weather conditions. Doubles entries are also welcome
and category prizes will be awarded. There will also be over R 60 000 of
attendance lucky draw give aways.
All the race information can be found at www.surfskiworldcup.com
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