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Lucas Garcia(Sp) and Dani Garcia(Sp) dominated the senior man final and Masters respectively. Alizé Arnaud(Fr) took home the Ladies title with Manuel Centeno(Por) taking the men’s Body Board. Catarina Sousa(Por) won the ladies body board and Ben Skinner(Chi) took the Longboard title. The Open saw a wave by wave battle between Mario Lopez(Sp) and Vincent Duvignac(Fr). All surfers in the final demonstrated top to bottom surfing at the highest level. After a slow start, Duvignac(Fr) smashed his way into the lead eventually taking the Open title.

France took the Team award and Spain took the Fair Play award.

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Final Team Positions:
POS	TEAM	POINTS
1	France	10580
2	Spain	9395
3	Portugal	8700
4	England	7580
5	Channel Islands	7460
6	Morocco	7000
7	Wales	6505
8	Ireland	6180
9	Holland	6022
10	Germany	5317
11	Sweden	4183
12	Switzerland	3815
13	Belgium	1658

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A day for Longboarding on Day 3 of Eurosurf 2009

The competition entered it's 3rd day at St Ouen's Bay, with one to two foot waves making conditions difficult to surf in. Only a morning's session worth of surfing could take place before events were called off for three hours due to a lack of swell.

Of the action that did take place, Switzerland's Thierry Andre notched up the highest score in Round 1 of the men's longboard heats, his 12.73 ride comfortably taking him through to the next round. Irish surfer Stephen Kelleher, who qualified in Heat 8 with a score of 5.70, said, "It was really difficult out there because the surf was really small, but I got through okay. It was a bit sketchy at the start so I'm glad I got through." Thierry Andre, pleased with his performance, explained, "Conditions were very small and it was very windy, but it was still surfable on a longboard. It was quite similar to the surf I get in France, in Biarritz, with such small waves."

Further longboard heats took place until contest organizers decided to delay the contest until the higher tide. Bats and balls were on hand to keep teams warm on the beach, whilst the Moroccans wearing traditional djellaba's were dancing and enjoying sounds from their native country. Artist in residence, Mike Etienne is painting a murial on the noticeboard next the Watersplash giving onlookers something else to enjoy as it evolves into a depiction of this years Eurosurf environment.

Eurosurf 2009 Day 2

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EUROSURF 2009 DAY 2 JERSEY CHANNEL ISLANDS

Conditions still remain small but have had little affect on the standard of surfing. Surfers are performing to the best of their ability executing top to bottom turns with the odd reverse 360 thrown in. Body boarders are finding it difficult in the small surf but are competing hard on podium 2.

Damien Chaudoy(Fr) seems to be handling himself well by bagging the highest scoring wave of the day with a 9.87 sending him into the next round. Hugo Pinheiro(Por) in the open bodyboard proved a handful on podium 2 and Dani Garcia (Spn) in the masters produced the highest scoring combo in this division.

As the forecast is still unclear the competition moves on into day 3. Day 1 saw glorious sunshine . However in day 2 the sunshine disappeared leaving competitors and spectators braving cold north easterly winds all day and as for the surf, It seems to be picking up on the down tide.

Mixed fortunes for the Channel Island surfers as Renny Gould and Christian Boletta were knocked out of round 2 of the Open division along with Mark le Moignan, Mark Durbano and Scott Eastwood leaving Piers Gould the last man standing . Clayton Lidster powerd his way into round 2 of the Masters keen to defend his European title and David Speller and Scott Harben soldier on in the Mens Bodyboard.
Ladies surfers Shelly McFarling and Arlene Maltman along with longboarders Gordon Blake and Ben Skinner and Senior man surfer, Sam George will return to competion on day 3.

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Eurosurf takes off at St Ouens bay

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EUROSURF 2009 WATERSPLASH 27/9/09

Spectators were given a real treat on day 1 of the European Surfing Championships 2009. St Ouens bay was seen in its true glory bathed in glorious sunshine accompanied by a consistent small swell that completed round one of the Open,Senior Man, Ladies and Longboard categories. The standard of surfing was exceptional with the athletes competing across two podiums at the home of Jersey surfing, The Watersplash.

In celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Jersey Surfboard Club, 13 European nations are competing on Jersey's west coast in this prestigious event. The inform French and Portuguese are been chased hard by the Moroccan and Spanish teams during these early stages but with a week to go anything can happen. Small surf has not stopped Europe's best surfers from executing critical turns and manoeuvres. Snappy and speedy surfing was the order of the day with Damien Chaudoy(FR), Pablo Solar(SP) and Abdelkhalek Elharim(MOROC) showing some true form.

President of the European Surfing Federation, Francis Distinguin, was happy with the conditions in Jersey.
"I'm very excited because we have very good waves and I'm very happy for the competition to be in Jersey for the 50th birthday of the European Federation. I think the standard today has been very high."