2011 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing Preview
HONOLULU, HI – (September 14, 2011) - The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, presented by Rockstar Energy Drink, is pleased to announce its upcoming winter surf season in Hawaii that will be the final stop of the 2011 Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Tour, crowning this year’s men’s world surfing champion.
The Series will run from November 12 through December 20, on the North Shore of Oahu, and will offer a total prize purse of $830,000. The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is the most prestigious surfing series in the world, featuring the top rated surfers in some of the largest waves on the planet.
Events of the 29th annual Vans Triple Crown of Surfing are:
The Reef Hawaiian Pro, Nov.12-23
Haleiwa Ali’i Beach Park
6-star rated event that offers Prime ratings points
Prize purse: $145,000
The Vans World Cup of Surfing, Nov.24-Dec.6
Sunset Beach
Prime rating & points
Prize purse: $250,000 (upgraded from 2010)
The Billabong Pipe Masters, Dec. 8-20
Banzai Pipeline
World Tour rating & points
Prize purse: $425,000
The Series also offers a $10,000 bonus purse for the Vans Triple Crown champion: The most consistent surfer across all three events.
While there is no women’s series this year, Hawaii’s newly crowned ASP women’s world champion Carissa Moore will be the only woman to line up against the world class field of more than 200 male athletes. Moore, 19, has been granted the ASP Hawaii wildcard into both the Reef Hawaiian Pro and the Vans World Cup.
Despite being one of the youngest competitors in the field, Moore has been competing in the Vans Triple Crown since the tender age of 12 and has registered women’s event victories at Haleiwa and Sunset Beach. Her performances in extra large surf at Sunset Beach over the past two years earmarked her as a worthy recipient of the wildcard. The 2011 ASP Women’s World Tour culminated in California last month.
“The heritage of the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is unsurpassed,” said Event Director Randy Rarick. “For close to three decades Hawaii has been the one destination on the ASP World Tour that reliably produces incredible surf and exceptional surfing. When you look through the annals of the Vans Triple Crown, you will find every surfing great and many of the most memorable moments of the sport recorded. The excitement is already building for 2011.”
In addition to the surfing events, the SURFER Poll Awards will take place at the Turtle Bay Resort on the evening of December 6, during the Vans Triple Crown period.
The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is made possible by Vans, Reef, Billabong, Nixon, Skullcandy Supreme Sound, Hawaiian Airlines, Hawaii Tourism, GoPro, Turtle Bay Resort, State Farm, JN Automotive Group, Climb On Products, Clif Bar, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, Road Runner, Flo Water, Surfline.com, SURFING Magazine, and the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP).
Comments
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I wanna know why she didn’t get the invite all the way for the Triple Crown. Kinda BS to let her compete in only 2 of the 3 events. How can any of the guys claim to be a Triple Crown Champion if they got beat out by Carissa and only win because they were allowed to compete in the Pipe Masters. I say give her the go ahead for the whole event, she surfs better than most of the guys on the tour anyways and is definitely more entertaining with her style as well.
The wildcard to Carissa was much earned. She deserves it. It’d be great to have more of the girls there.
How come KS never enters the Triple Crown anymore?
John Florence will make his mark this year!
That’s great for Carissa but sad not to see a womens event for everyone else. Perhaps Owen should take his $300k and put up the seed money to sponsor a womens event himself (if Kelly kicked in his NY prize money too, you’d really be getting somewhere). It’s fairly likely Tyler would place somewhere then she and Owen can split that purse. (More cynically, one might wish some of that rich purse in NY went towards one more womens contest this year in the first place.)
i dont think anyone wishes purse money went into the womens comp
yeah, there are a bunch of people who would like to see more Women’s events. I think it will be great to watch Carissa wipe the floor with the guys and that is not just a “pipe dream” that could very well be the reality this year.
Carissa gets the wildcard ? Awesome !!! Charge, girl ! I hope you win !