2022 Champs crowned at Wandiyali Indigenous Classic in Newcastle
(27 March 2022-Merewether beach- NEWCASTLE AUSTRALIA) FORMER World Surf League Championship Tour surfer Soli Bailey has won the open mens at the Wandiyali Indigenous Classic, while Central Coast surfer JasmIne McCorquodale was victorious in the womens. More than 60 Indigenous surfers contesting five divisions surfed in the two-day event held at Surfest. The Wandiyali Indigenous […]
Champs crowned at Wandiyali ATSI Indigenous Classic at Surfest
THE NATION’S richest surfing competition for Indigenous surfers saw four new champs crowned at Merewether beach today as part of the 35th Surfest Newcastle Australia. Under a bright blue sky signalling the first day or autumn, the men’s open division was won by 17-year-old Finn Hill in right-handers up to 1.5 metres fanned by a […]
Molony makes it a dozen Wandiyali Indigenous Classic titles
Wandiyali Classic 2019 Open men’s finalist: Pic by Paul Danovaro (Merewether beach, Surfest Newcastle Australia, 3 March 2019) AUSTRALIA’s richest surfing contest for Indigenous surfers has been won by Russell Molony from Bateau Bay on the NSW Central Coast. Molony, who took home $6000 and the perpetual trophy that carries his name, left it until […]
Forster’s Joe Haddon tames wild surf to claim his fourth Wandiyali ATSI Indigenous Classic title
Caption: Wandiyali Classic 2018 winners. Pic: Paul Danovaro MASSIVE swells pounded Merewether beach and smashed surfboards on the final day of the Wandiyali ATSI Indigenous Classic, Australia’s richest Indigenous surfing contest. Wandiyali means porcupine in the Wiradjuri language Surfers from around the nation vied for titles across four divisions in the classic as part of […]
Wandiyali Indigenous Classic gallery by Gary Luke Photographics and Paul Danovaro Photography
Indigenous surfer Russell Molony wins Wandiyali ATSI Indigenous Classic at Surfest
(Merewether beach, Newcastle, NSW, AUSTRALIA: 17 February 2017) CENTRAL Coast surfer Russell Molony has again put the clock on hold and pocketed $6000 after winning Australia’s richest surfing contest for Indigenous surfers – for the 11th time. And in doing so, he became the first surfer to win the Russell Molony perpetual trophy. In 2017, […]
Wandiyali Classic 2016 photo gallery by Throwing Buckets
Molony makes it 10 at Wandiyali ATSI Indigenous Classic
(Merewether, NSW, AUSTRALIA 19 February 2016) AND then there were 10. That’s how many Newcastle Indigenous Classic trophies Russell Molony has lining the mantelpiece after winning the 2016 Wandiyali ATSI Indigenous Classic – Australia’s richest surfing competition for Indigenous surfers – at Merewether beach today. But there’s no talk of Molony stepping down and letting […]
Booming swell moves Wandiyali ATSI Indigenous Classic
(Merewether, NSW, AUSTRALIA 18 February 2016) A THREE metre southerly swell crashed into the Hunter coastline overnight, forcing organisers of the Wandiyali ATSI Indigenous Classic to move the richest Indigenous surfing contest in the nation to Nobbys Beach, approximately five kilometres to the north of Merewether beach. Three divisions hit the water at Nobbys, where […]
Maitland Port Stephens Toyota Surfest Wildcard Trials 2016
Sunday January 31 2016 (Birubi Beach, Port Stephens NSW Australia) The 2016 Maitland and Port Stephens Toyota Surfest Trials were held today in very good offshore 1 metre waves on Birubi Beach, Port Stephens NSW. Over 40 male and female competitors competed for a wildcard into the World Surf league 6000 Maitland and Port Stephens […]
