{"id":50721,"date":"2011-06-17T06:42:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:42:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50721"},"modified":"2011-06-17T06:42:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T13:42:02","slug":"bodyboarding-dave-winchester-claims-the-2011-shark-island-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=50721","title":{"rendered":"Bodyboarding &#8211; Dave Winchester claims the 2011 Shark Island Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dave Winchester has stormed the 2011 Shark Island Challenge in near perfect powerful two-metre waves, at the notorious Shark Island reef, off the point of Cronulla. The special event sanctioned by the International Bodyboard Association (IBA) saw the world&#8217;s best riders surfing outstanding waves of this shallow outer reef.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Australian started the final slowly and was virtually scoreless in the initial ten minutes allowing local Cronulla rider Andrew Lester to build up a solid lead. His patience paid off when\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surfertoday.com\/bodyboarding\/5741-dave-winchester-claims-the-2011-shark-island-challenge\" target=\"_blank\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Winchester has stormed the 2011 Shark Island Challenge in near perfect powerful two-metre waves, at the notorious Shark Island reef, off the point of Cronulla. The special event sanctioned by the International Bodyboard Association (IBA) saw the world&#8217;s best riders surfing outstanding waves of this shallow outer reef. The Australian started the final slowly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-board-sports","category-bodyboarding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50722,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50721\/revisions\/50722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}