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March 13, 2012
NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Tuesday, March 13, 2012) – Today at Newcastle’s Surfest competitors were greeted with small but clean 2 foot (1 meter) surf for the ASP 6-Star Burton Toyota Pro and the ASP 6-Star Hunter Ports Women’s Classic. The last six heats of the Round of 144 of the Men’s competition were run, followed by [...]
March 12, 2012
NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Monday, March 12, 2012) – Surfest’s headlining events the ASP 6-Star Burton Toyota Pro and the ASP 6-Star Hunter Ports Women’s Classic launched in style today at Merewether beach, Newcastle. A press conference featuring a crop of the world’s best surfers kicked off proceedings as the opening Rounds of the men’s and women’s [...]
March 11, 2012
NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Sunday, March 11, 2012) – This week Merewether beach, Newcastle set the stage for one of the most exciting Australian Pro Junior combined Men’s and Women’s events in recent history – the 2012 CHIKO Pro Junior. With epic surf, outstanding performances throughout all four days of competition, the event concluded today in clean [...]
March 10, 2012
NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Saturday, March 10, 2012) – Conditions were once again favourable for day three of the CHIKO Pro Junior at Newcastle’s Surfest as the field was culled to just eight men and eight women competing for the CHIKO Pro Junior title. Most of the surfing action occurred 150 metres to the north of Merewether [...]
March 9, 2012
NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Friday, March 9, 2012) – Merewether Point once again offered up perfect conditions with two-metres of south swell held up by a strong north-west wind for day two of the CHIKO Pro Junior at Newcastle’s Surfest. The Men’s Round of 64 saw some big scores, upsets and plenty of action packed heats. Matt [...]
March 8, 2012
NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Thursday, March 8, 2012) – MEREWETHER point offered young surfers from Australasia and around the globe perfection on day one of the CHIKO Pro Junior at Newcastle’s Surfest. The two-to-three metre (6 foot) southerly swell that lit up Merewether was whipped up by a deepening low pressure trough that moved up from the [...]
March 7, 2012
NEWCASTLE, NSW/Australia (Wednesday, March 7, 2012) – This week Newcastle’s Surfest will play host to some of the world’s best surfers for the 27th time, making it one of the longest running surf events in Australia. 2012 has also seen the Men’s division, the Burton Toyota Pro, upgraded to an ASP 6-Star rating making Surfest [...]
November 15, 2011
Newcastle, NSW/Australia (Tuesday, November 15, 2012) – The main event at Newcastle’s Surfest – The Burton Toyota Pro – has received a massive boost from sponsors and achieved ASP 6-Star status in 2012 to compliment the existing ASP 6-Star Women’s event, which has secured a new naming Rights sponsor – Hunter Ports. For Newcastle to [...]