A pair of Bay of Plenty's up and coming surf lifesavers are proving their worth on the international stage claiming hard fought medals at the 2014 Australian Surf Life Saving Championships.

Commonly referred to as 'The Aussies”, the seven-day event has 5000 surf lifesavers competing in 382 events on the golden sands of Western Australia's Scarborough Beach.

Mount Maunganui Lifeguard Services Olivia Eaton (left) on her way to fifth in the sprint race final. Photo: Jill Barron.

After Mount Maunganui surf lifesaver Hamish Miller comfortably taking out Under 15 boys 2km beach run on Friday, Papamoa Surf Life Saving Club's Madi Kidd quickly followed suit collecting bronze in the under 17 women's flags.

The pair were part of a 15-strong Bay of Plenty contingent – 10 from Mount Maunganui, four from Omanu and one from Papamoa.

In the Sunday's final days racing Papamoa's Natalie Peat raced extremely well in difficult conditions, earning 7th in both the under 19 women's surf race and ironwoman.

According to reports the sea breeze came in earlier and stronger, whipping up the sea and making the chop very difficult to read and the beach break dumping and hard to negotiate at times.

Emanuelle Bescheron managed an 8th in her open women's surf race, before swimming a super leg in the open women's taplin setting up Flora Manciet and Brooke Shergold for the remaining two legs.

Both Flora and Brooke managed to negotiate a large shore break finishing a creditable 11th.

Brooke and Emanuelle earlier came 12th in their open women's double ski.

Libby Bradley and Daniel Barron both had good starts in their under 15 iron finals, before placing 16th and 11th respectively.

A technical error almost had Mount Maunganui's Amy Barron claiming gold in the under 17 ski with officials mistaking her cap and putting her first for a while – finishing up in 13th and missing the surf final by one place.

Surf Life Saving New Zealand sport manager Mike Lord says all Kiwi athletes did an amazing job at the Aussies, coming out with some fantastic results.

"There's some seriously tough competition over at the Aussie nationals and it's a huge achievement to make a final, let alone walk away with a medal,” says Mike.

'All our athletes should be very proud of themselves for their results.”

The 2014 Aussies ran from March 31 - April 6.