KENDRICK NAILS IRONMAN BIG GUNS IN SURF RESCUE UPSET

January 31: Sydney builder Kendrick Louis has nailed two of the sport's biggest names in the first 2011 DHL International Surf Rescue Challenge at a windswept Mount Manganui in New Zealand's north today.

Representing the Australian under 21 team, the former Australian under 17 and two-time under 19 Ironman champion, upset big name "big brothers" Hugh Dougherty and Shannon Eckstein.

Louis won the Ironman from Dougherty and Eckstein and also the board from Dougherty, with Nick Malcolm (New Zealand Development) third and emerging South Coast, NSW Ironman Ali Day fifth.

Collaroy's outstanding youngster is no slouch when it comes to Ironman racing, having won three Australian titles; the under 17 National crown in 2007 and the under 19 gold medals in 2008 and 2009.

Ironman king Eckstein won the single ski, while his Northcliffe team mate Dev Lahey took the surf race for Australia.

And while Louis led the upsets in the water it was Kurrawa's Ben Mispelhorn (Australian under 19 champion), also representing Australia's under 21s, who repeated the dose for the emerging Australians on the sand.

Mispelhorn won the beach sprint, defeating reigning Australian champion, WA's Tom Nolan (North Cottesloe) and the beach flags from Kurrawa team mate Paul Cracroft-Wilson (New Zealand).

In the women's events, Australia's Liz Pluimers won the Ironwoman-board race double, team mate Naomi Flood, fresh from shannon eckstein international ironman champion photo slsa.jpg her K1 1000 win in the Sydney Kayak Grand Prix II Meet, was too strong for Kristyl Smith and Teneale Hatton in the single ski while Smith won the surf race and National champion Laura Shorter the beach sprint.

Pluimers took top honours in an all-Australian finish in the Ironwoman from sisters Courtney and Bonnie Hancock.

In the end it was Australia with 21 victories from 26 events in the open competition, who reigned supreme on 112 points from New Zealand (94) and Japan (54).

Teams from Australia, New Zealand, Australia Under 21, New Zealand Development, Great Britain, Japan and Canada are competing in the three-Test Series, which resumes at Mount Manganui on Wednesday and concludes on Friday. - IAN HANSON

DHL International Surf Challenge Day 1 test 1

RESULTS

Male Taplin Relay

1. Australia

2. Australia Development

3. New Zealand

4. New Zealand Development

5. Great Britain

6. Japan

7. Canada

Female Taplin Relay

1. Australia

2. New Zealand

3. Australia U21

4. New Zealand Development

5. Japan

6. Cananda

Male Board Rescue

1. Australia Development

2. New Zealand Development

3. Australia

4. Great Britain

5. New Zealand

6. Canada

Female Board Rescue

1. Australia

2. Australia Development

3. New Zealand

4. New Zealand Development

5. Great Britain

6. Canada

Male Beach Relay

1. New Zealand

2. Australia

3. Canada

4. New Zealand Development

5. Australia U21

6. Japan

Female Taplin Relay

1. Australia

2. New Zealand

3. Australia U21

4. New Zealand Development

5. Japan

6. Canada

Boat Race 3

1. Australia

2. New Zealand

3. Australia Development

4. Great Britain

5. New Zealand Development

Male Tube Rescue

1. Australia

2. New Zealand

3. Australia U21

4. New Zealand Development

5. Japan

6. Canada

Female Tube Rescue

1. Australia

2. New Zealand

3. New Zealand Development

4. Australia U21

5. Japan

6. Canada

Male Sprints

1. Ben Mispelhorn (Australia U21)

2. Tommy Nolan (Australia)

3. Morgan Foster (New Zealand)

4. Leo Pokoussaer (Canada)

5. Shota Tanaka (Japan)

6. Anthony Mazzer (Great Britain)

7. Toby Harris Development DQ

Female Sprints

1. Laura Shorter(Australia)

2. Hayley Wyper(Australia U21)

3. Chanel Hickman(New Zealand)

4. Arna Wright (New Zealand Development)

5. Emily Brady

6. Jo Devine (Canada)

7. Yuki Fujinami (Japan)

Male Board Race

1. Kendrick Louis (Australia U21)

2. Hugh Dougherty (Australia)

3. Nick Malcolm (New Zealand Development)

4. Andrew Newton (New Zealand)

5. Ali Day (Australia)

6. Cory Taylor (New Zealand Development)

7. Tim Schofield (Australia U21)

8. Anthony Mazzer (Great Britain

9. Julien Lalanne (Great Britain)

10. Hikaru Kikuchi (Japan)

11. Travis Mitchell (New Zealand)

12. Shun Nishiyama (Japan)

13. Mike Zitta (Canada)

14. James Verreault (Canada)

Female Board Race

1. Liz Pluimers (Australia)

2. Bonnie Hancock (Australia U21)

3. Katrina Madill (New Zealand Development)

4. Nikki Cox (New Zealand)

5. Courtney Hancock (Australia)

6. Amy Nurthern (Australia U21)

7. Maddie Boon (New Zealand)

8. Kendal Elliott (New Zealand Development)

9. Nami Mizuma (Japan

10. Ayako Kawasaki (Japan)

11. Audrey Prayal-Brown (Canada)

12. Alexandrine Masse-Bombardier (Canada)

Boat Race 2

1. New Zealand

2. Australia Development

3. New Zealand Development

4. Australia

5. Great Britain

Male Ski Race

1. Shannon Eckstein (Australia)

2. Travis Mitchell (New Zealand)

3. Michael Booth (Australia U21)

4. Ali Day (Australia)

5. Mike Lee (New Zealand Development)

6. Scott Smith (Australia U21)

7. Julien Lalanne (Great Britain)

8. Stuart Snell (Great Britain)

9. Cory Taylor (New Zealand Development)

10. Shun Nishiyama (Japan)

11. Keiji Ochai (Japan)

12. Glenn Anderson (New Zealand)

13. James Verreault (Canada)

14. Mike Zitta (Canada)

Female Ski Race

1. Naomi Flood (Australia)

2. Kristyl Smith (Australia)

3. Teneale Hatton (New Zealand)

4. Rachel Clarke (New Zealand Development)

5. Bailey Elliott (New Zealand Development)

6. Harriet Brown (Australia U21)

7. Devon Halligan (Australia U21)

8. Maddie Boon (New Zealand)

9. Emmanuelle Bescheron

10. Alexandra Ferguson (Canada)

11. Ayumi Komatsuzaki (Japan)

12. Audrey Prayal-Brown (Canada)

Surf Teams Race

1. Australia

2. Australia U21

3. New Zealand

4. New Zealand Development

5. Japan

6. Canada

Mens Beach Flags

1. Ben Mispelhorn (Australia U21)

2. Paul Cracroft-Wilson (New Zealand)

3. Tommy Nolan (Australia)

4. Toby Harris (New Zealand Development)

5. Shota Tanaka (Japan)

6. Anthony Mazzer (Great Britain)

7. Nicholas Hay (Canada)

Female Beach Flags

1. Chanel Hickman (New Zealand)

2. Kendall Elliott (New Zealand Development)

3. Hayley Wyper (Australia U21)

4. Laura Shorter (Australia)

5. Emily Brady (Canada)

6. Yuki Fujinami (Japan)

7. Jo Devine (Great Britan)

Mixed Ski Relay

1. Australia

2. New Zealand

3. Australia U21

4. New Zealand Development

5. Great Britain

6. Canada

7. Japan

Mixed Board Relay

1. Australia

2. Australia U21

3. New Zealand

4. New Zealand Development

5. Japan

6. Great Britain

7. Canada

Boat Race 1

1. New Zealand

2. Australia

3. New Zealand Development

4. Australia Development

5. Great Britain

Male Surf Race

1. Dev Lahey (Australia)

2. Mike Janes (New Zealand)

3. Ali Day (Australia)

4. Tim Schofield (Australia U21)

5. Steven Kent (New Zealand Development)

6. Glenn Anderson (New Zealand)

7. Kyle O'Brien (Australia U21)

8. Max Beattie (New Zealand Development)

9. Scott van Doormaal (Canada)

10. Hikaru Kikuchi (Japan)

11. Masaya Shimizu (Japan)

12. Stuart Snell (Great Britain)

13. James Verreault (Canada)

Female Surf Race

1. Kristyl Smith (Australia)

2. Miranda Bell (Australia)

3. Ayla Dunlop-Barrett (New Zealand)

4. Devon Halligan (Australia U21)

5. Kirsty Wannan (New Zealand)

6. Natalie Peat (New Zealand Development)

7. Emmanuelle Bescheron (Great Britain)

8. Alisha Miller (Australia U21)

9. Bailey Elliott (New Zealand Development)

10. Kuni Mori (Japan)

11. Nami Mizuma (Japan)

12. Audrey Prayal-Brown (Canada)

13. Alexandra Ferguson (Canada) DQ

Ironman

1. Kendrick Louis (Australia U21)

2. Hugh Dougherty (Australia)

3. Shannon Eckstein (Australia)

4. Cory Taylor (New Zealand Development)

5. Max Beattie (New Zealand Development)

6. Mike Janes (New Zealand)

7. Michael Booth (Australia U21)

8. Stuart Snell (Great Britain)

9. Glenn Anderson (New Zealand)

10. Shun Nishiyama (Japan)

11. Julien Lalanne (Great Britain)

12. Hiroya Suganuma (Japan)

13. Mike Zitta (Canada)

14. James Verreault (Canada)

Ironwomen

1. Liz Pluimers (Australia)

2. Courtney Hancock (Australia)

3. Bonnie Hancock (Australia U21)

4. Maddie Boon (New Zealand)

5. Amy Nurthern (Australia U21)

6. Nikki Cox (New Zealand)

7. Rachel Clarke (New Zealand Development)

8. Bailey Elliott (New Zealand Development)

9. Emmanuelle Bescheron (Great Britain)

10. Ayako Kawasaki (Japan)

11. Hitomi Moriyama (Japan)

12. Audrey Prayal-Brown (Canada)

13. Alexandra Ferguson (Canada)

Female Beach Relay

1. New Zealand

2. Australia

3. Australia U21

4. New Zealand Development

5. Japan

6. Canada