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Involvement in Surf Sports at any level – be it a competitor, coach or official – requires sincere and often unrivalled commitment to stand out in the field.
Central Coast athletes have shone brightest on the national stage at the 2024 Australian Pool Rescue Championships, securing World and Australian Meet Records over three days of competition at the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre.
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.
It was Caves Beach SLSC’s title to lose, without question, and the club from the Hunter delivered on all fronts with a comprehensive clean sweep of the 2024 Sharkskin NSW Inflatable Rescue Boat (IRB) Championships at Cape Hawke.
A clean slate meets our eager Inflatable Rescue Boat racers this weekend as the 2024 Sharkskin NSW IRB Championships descends on Cape Hawke SLSC – the competitive return of a state event to the region for the first time in 18 months.
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.
