A 5th for Ben Howey, 7th for Ben Skinner, 9th for Emily Currie and a 25th for Jen Pendlebury helped Surfing England got a 5th place team finish in the World longboard champs.
Skindog went down fighting losing out on a repechage final place by .8 of a point in repechage round 7. Ben Howey was on a roll but went out in the repechage final.
British longboarding has now had four surfers repping on the WSL longboard tour, and four placing in the top ten in the world at the ISA games in the past year. Add to this the surfers placing in the Noosa Surf Fest and Duct Tape events and you can say British surfers among the global elite. If Wales had fielded a team (Elliot Dudley and Connor Griffiths ?) it would have been good bet that two more would have been in the field.
Hawaiian Kai Salas won the mens title, American Tory Gilkerson won the womens title. USA won the teams.
