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Great day for Aussies competing in Hawaii

A lot of you wont hear about this on the news, even though it is a big deal. There was a little race on in Hawaii today. It is the Paddleboard world championships. Its only one race but its big enough and hard enough to be considered the test for world champions. The Hawaiians have been crossing the Ka'iwi Channel for many many years on all sorts of water craft, canoes, sailing canoes, outriggers etc. About 16 or so years ago they decided to make it official and started having a professional run race there every year. There are other races there at other times of the year for Surf Ski (think life guard long fast ski) and outrigger canoes (1, 2 4 and 6 man) This time it was for Paddleboarding.

Traditional prone, which is lie down or kneel and just use your arms to paddle, and Stand Up Paddleboarding which sees a person stand on a similar but larger board and use a one ended paddle (same style as out rigger paddle only longer)

This little race is 32 miles long and tougher than hell. Here is a link to where they start and finish, yep, 32 miles (51.5km) in open ocean (very open as its quite deep being that Hawaii comes up out of no where)

http://www.molokai2oahu.com/event-info/course-map/

Today Australians managed to do ok for them selves.

Mens Prone Paddleboard solo:

1 1 5:05:32 Brad Gaul AUS PDB UNL M30-39
2 44 5:07:49 Cam Cole AUS PDB UNL M01-29
3 94 5:11:09 Matt Poole AUS PDB UNL M01-29
4 2 5:19:47 Jackson English SING PDB UNL M30-39
5 4 5:26:14 Michael Porra AUS PDB UNL M50-99
6 40 5:28:10 Rory Chapman AUS PDB UNL M01-29
7 3 5:32:05 Brian Rocheleau USA PDB UNL M30-39
8 78 5:39:23 Alistair Maney NZL PDB UNL M01-29
9 101 5:45:24 Daniel Shade AUS PDB UNL M30-39
10 6 5:46:13 Zeb Walsh AUS PDB STK M30-39

(Jackson English is an ex pat, Zeb was on a shorter, stock board and came 10th outright and 1st in class)

Mens Stand Up Paddleboard solo:

1 63 4:50:17 Travis Grant AUS SUP UNL M30-39
2 60 5:00:53 Scott Gamble USA SUP UNL M30-39
3 33 5:02:02 Connor Baxter USA SUP UNL M01-29
4 10 5:07:57 Kai Lenny USA SUP UNL M01-29
5 12 5:11:48 Kaeo Abbey USA SUP UNL M01-29
6 17 5:17:29 Luiz Carlos Guida BRA SUP UNL M01-29
7 29 5:22:59 Travis Baptiste USA SUP STK M01-29
8 14 5:24:36 Eric Terrien ESP SUP UNL M30-39
9 72 5:26:21 Kody Kerbox USA SUP STK M01-29
10 58 5:27:43 Mo Freitas USA SUP UNL M01-29

Women's Stand Up Paddleboard:

16 19 5:40:40 Terrene Black AUS SUP UNL Female

They haven't done a top 10 yet for women yet, Terrene won the Women's, 16th overall (thats in with the men)

Women's Prone Paddleboard solo:

17 7 6:10:00 Jordan Mercer AUS PDB UNL Female

They haven't done a top 10 for women yet, Jordan won the women's and came 17th overall (thats in with the men)

here is a little vid from the race:

Molokai 2 Oahu 2013 Video News Reel on Vimeo