2018 Tigers Milk Winter Surf Classic
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Over 120 competitors will surf in the 2018 Tigers Milk Winter Surf Classic which gets underway at Surfers Corner, Muizenberg on Friday morning. Of these, twenty-one have represented South Africa at International events, four have surfed for Great Britain and one has competed for New Zealand. There are thirty-one National Champions in the mix and forty-nine of the surfers competing this weekend have earned provincial and district colours. The Muizenberg community have provided twenty-four of the competitors to the three-day event. The top performer in this group will win a custom-made Tigers Milk surfboard. 2017 Tigers Milk Winter Classic winners and former World Longboard Champions, Matthew Moir and Simone Robb are both are competing as are former Tigers Milk Longboard title winners and Tigers Life ambassador Alfonzo Pieters and eight-time South African Champion Kay Holt. South Africa’s current top-ranked female surfer, Nicole Pallett is competing as are world ranked professional surfer Tanika Hoffman and former Tigers Milk shortboard champions, Jordy Maree and Dillon Fernandez. Adding a bit of history to this year’s contest are Therese Russell and George Bunting, who were members of the Western Province Team that competed in the 1966 South African Championships in Durban. The 2018 Tigers […]