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History was made and legacies cemented on Miami Beach at the 2024 Sharkskin Australian Inflatable Rescue Boat Championships as both Caves Beach SLSC and Kiama Downs SLSC capped their racing season with overall point score victories in the U23s on Friday 19 July and the Masters on Saturday 20 July, respectively.

NSW will be out to break an extraordinary streak of Queensland domination when the recently selected Inflatable Rescue Boat Interstate team contests the 2024 Sharkskin Australian IRB Championships at Miami Beach on the Gold Coast from 18-21 July.

Three potential new world records were set at the 2024 NSW Pool Lifesaving Championships, held over the weekend of 14-16 June, with Manly LSC’s Ronnie Dalsgaard and Shelly Beach SLSC’s Dan Kingsley setting sensational times in some key events.

Reigning and now incumbent champions, Caves Beach SLSC would almost need to stay home to lose the 2024 Sharkskin Inflatable Rescue Boat Premiership after the penultimate third round at Avoca Beach, but many individual teams and clubs are chasing points and pride to close it all out next weekend.

The ducks are back on the water as state surf sport competition returns to Fingal Beach – the host club hoping to take advantage of familiar conditions and surge up the leader board in Round 2 of the NSW Sharkskin IRB Premiership.

The Sharkskin NSW IRB Premiership Series is back for season 2024, with a bumper crop of eager and enthusiastic teams ready to bring the unique blend of competitive speed and technical, lifesaving precision to Collaroy ahead of Round 1.

Dan ‘The Man’ Collins became the first Newcastle Ironman, and just the fourth New South Welshman in the last 20 years, to win the coveted Aussies Open title at the weekend as the state’s elite surf sport athletes starred across five days of intense competition on the Sunshine Coast.