Buitendag Clinches Bronze Medal at ISA World Surfing Games in Japan

SA’s Bianca Buitendag clinched the bronze medal for third place in the Open Women’s event at the ISA World Surfing Games in Japan, beating two former World Champions
Buitendag Strikes Early to Advance at Margaret River
2013 ASP tour rookie Bianca Buitendag made the best of a big set early in her Heat 6 of Round two in Western Australia on Sunday, to advance to Round 3 of the ASP’s Drug Aware Margaret River Pro
Buitendag Opens Margaret River Pro in Style
2013 ASP tour rookie Bianca Buitendag continued her good form from the Gold Coast last weekend, when she progressed to Round 2 of the Drug Aware Margaret River Pro in Australia at the opening round 1 on Saturday, scoring 14.40 to finish Heat 4 in second place behind Austraian Sally Fitzgibbons on 18.63 points
Rosy Opens Tour with Confidence
Rosy Hodge (ZAF) chats to one of the Roxy crew in the competitors area, during the ASP’s opening 2008 event, the Roxy Pro Gold Coast in Coolangatta, Australia. ASP Kirstin (c) Covered Images Rosanne Hodge surfed well enough, but couldn’t make it past the ASP’s 2008 season’s opening event’s quarterfinals at the Roxy Pro Gold […]
Rosy Waits for Round 3 in Gold Coast
Roxy Pro Gold Coast qualifier Carissa Moore gives the ASP Women’s World Tour top 17 something to worry about, as organisers decide to delay Round 3 for another day, in the hope that better surf will arrive. Picture: ASP Kirstin (c) Covered Images After deliberating all morning, event organizers for the Roxy Pro Gold Coast […]
Rosy Saves Her Best for Last
Rosy Hodge’s stellar surfing qualities have seen her end a solid rookie season on the world’s premier surfing ASP Women’s World Tour stage with a morale-boosting life-time best third place. Picture ASP Towner © Covered Images Rosanne Hodge ended her rookie ASP World Tour at the season-ending Billabong Pro Maui at Honolua Bay in Hawaii […]
Nerves as Pro Maui Postponed Again
ASP World Tour surfers may not have been rewarded with a good enough swell for the Billabong Pro Maui in Honolua Bay, Hawaii, but the beautiful rainbow to the contest site made it worth it. Picture: ASP Kirstin © Covered Images. Although a small pulse of swell is projected to push surf in the three-to-four […]
Rosanne seeks Best Score in Hawaii
Jessi Miley-Dyer, Rebecca Woods, Rosy Hodge, Chelsea Hedges, and Sally Fitzgibbons decide to make use of one of Maui’s best assets, the fairways of the Kapalua Bay Golf Course, prior to the start of the final 2008 ASP Women’s World Tour Billabong Girls Pro event in Maui, Honolua Bay, Maui, Hawaii. Dec 8- 20, 2007. […]
Do or Die for Rosie
Australian 2007 ASP World Tour rookie Stephanie Gilmore defeated national favourite, former world champ Sofia Mulanovch in the semi-finals, before defeating seven-time world champ Layne Beachley in the Finals. Picture ASP Towner © Covered Images Australian rookie sensation Stephanie Gilmore extended her lead at the top of the ASP Women’s World Tour rankings by beating […]
Rosy Rides into Third Round
Rosanne Hodge throws a sheet of spray curtting back powerfully during her Round One, heat in the Mancora Peru Classic on Wednesday. Hodge placed second behind Jessie Miley-Dyer (AUS) to advance directly to Round 3, in the R560 000 ASP Women’s World Tour event. Photo Credit: ASP Towner © Covered Images Rosanne Hodge, South Africa’s […]
Rosie and the World’s Best in Peru
The blissful settings awaiting South Africa’s Roseanne Hodge, as she continues her rookie year on the ASP Women’s World Tour. Picture: ASP Towner © Covered Images Rosie Hodge will take to the waves later today half-way around the world in Peru’s Mancora Peru Classic, the sixth in the season’s eight international events, and will […]
Rosie’s Up and Down Under
SA’s Roseanne Hodge in sparkling form in the first round of the NAB Beachley Classic in Sydney, Australia, before coming unstuck against Brazil’s Silvana Lima in the tournament’s third round. Picture courtesy ASP Robertson © Covered Images Despite dumping current World No. 2 Silvana Lima into the reseeded second round, and pipping Australia’s Amee Donohoe […]