The remaining six teams are announced for the ISA China Cup

2012 ISA World Masters Surfing Championship Gold Medalist Sunny Garcia will be a member of Team Hawaii. Photo: ISA/Rommel Gonzales

Brazil, France, Hawaii, Japan, Portugal and USA Join Australia and Peru as the 8 Invited National Teams in the Second Annual Competition on Hainan Island, China

Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival
January 25 to 30, 2013
Wanning, Hainan, China

Wanning, Hainan, China, January 23, 2013- The International Surfing Association is pleased to announce that the ISA China Cup, which is the first event of the ISA’s Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival, has confirmed the remaining six teams that will be competing in China from January 26 to 27. The National Teams are representing Brazil, France, Hawaii, Japan, Portugal, and USA.

These Teams will join Peru and Australia’s National Surfing Teams to complete the eight total teams that will be contending for the ISA China Cup.

“There’s only a few days to go before the Opening Ceremony and the ISA China Cup begin. All eight National Teams have been announced and the surfers have begun to arrive in Wanning,” remarked ISA President Fernando Aguerre. “The surfers will be practicing at the world-class left point break at Riyue Bay in preparation for the competition that begins on Saturday. Great waves and warm weather are welcoming the delegations. As I like to remind all athletes, at the ISA China Cup, while a few competitors will go home with medals, all of them are already winners, as they are surfing as members of their National Surfing Teams.”

Brazil´s Diana de Souza will return to China and will be looking to improve on her 3rd place finish from last year´s ISA China Cup. Photo: ISA/Agustin Muñoz

The Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay International Surfing Festival will officially begin on Friday with the Opening Ceremony and Parade of Nations. The following day, the first day of the ISA China Cup will kick-off the competition and on Sunday, the champions will be crowned.

Following the ISA China Cup will be the ISA’s Hainan Classic, 4-Star Men’s ASP, with a prize purse of $95,000 US, which will take place from January 28 to 30, and will feature the best surfers in the world, including defending Champion and ASP World Tour surfer Glenn Hall, competing for a berth on the ASP World Tour.
The event will be webcast live on www.hainaninternationalsurfingfestival.com

AUSTRALIA
Open Men				Open Women		Coach	Team Official
Connor O’Leary	Wade Carmichael	Lincoln Taylor	Mitchel Crews	Nicola Van Dijk	Philippa Anderson	Jeremy Sheppard	Martin Dunn

BRAZIL
Open Men				Open Women		Coach	Team Official
Deivid Da Silva	Messias Felix	Matheus Navaro	Michael Rodrigues	Diana De Souza	Suelen De Almeida	Adalvo Argolo	Gabriel Macedo

FRANCE
Open Men				Open Women		Coach	Team Official
Maxime Huscenot	Vincent Duvignac	Medi Veminardi	Aime Adrien Kouhery	Alize Arnaud	Johanne Defay	Patrick Flores	Stephane Corbinien

HAWAII
Open Men				Open Women		Coach	Team Official
Kaipo Jaquias	Sunny Garcia	Kaoliopuuwai Kahokuloa	Dustin Cuizon	Nage Melamed	Alessa Quizon	Rainos Hayes	Keiki Lindo

JAPAN
Open Men				Open Women		Coach	Team Official
Shun Murakami	Takumi Nakamura	Kaito Ohashi	Kenta Hayashi	Nao Omura	Hinako Kurokawa	Kimifumi Imoto	Osamu Yoshinaga

PERU
Open Men				Open Women		Coach	Team Official
Carlos Mario Zapata	Juninho Urcia	Joaquin Del Castillo	Sebastian Alarcon	Valeria Sole	Miluksa Tello	Ricardo Kaufman	Oswaldo Velez

PORTUGAL
Open Men				Open Women		Coach	Team Official
Vasco Ribeiro	Frederico Rodrigues	Eduardo de Castro	Joao Saldanha	Carina da Silva	Maria Sepulveda	Jose Teixeira	Pedro Sampaio

USA
Open Men				Open Women		Coach	Team Official
Cory Lopez	Cameron Richards	Gabe Kling	Chris Wearing	Erica Hosseini	Demi Boelsterli	Ian Cairns	Gregory Cruse

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