Mount Maunganui surfer Nick White is the fourth and final Kiwi in the Open Men's Division to be knocked out at the 2010 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games. He has finished equal 29^th overall at the games being held at Punta Hermosa, Peru.

Nick was the best performer of the Kiwi men at the World Surfing Games.

He was confronted with the big task of beating the two South Africans in his heat - Warwick Wright and Chad Du Toit.

Getting off to a slow start did not help him as the South Africans racked up the high scores pushing him into fourth place along with the Mexican surfer who placed third in the heat with scores of 7.20 and 10.7 respectively.
Nick will ponder what might have been after earlier in the day showing some exceptional form to place second in a high scoring fourth round heat progressing behind Carlos Munoz (CRC).

He posted scores of 7.60 and 5.10 for a 12.80 point heat total eliminating Guillermo Satt (CHL) and Mario Lopez (SPA).
His loss spells the end for the four Kiwi Open Men's Division surfers who struggled to find their best form on the often unpredictable point break set ups of Punta Hermosa.

The attention now swings to the Open Women's Division surfers Paige Hareb from Taranaki and Laura Rishworth from Mount Maunganui along with longboarders Thomas Kibblewhite and Daniel Procter who all remain in the qualifying rounds of the event.

Thomas and Daniel stayed alive in the qualifying rounds on Monday, both placing second in their heats and both to the highly fancied Australian surfers.

The results push the two surfers through to the last 16 surfers in the qualifying rounds and a big opportunity to jump to a career best result at the event should they move through their next heats.
Thomas posted 9.70 out of a possible 20 points to push surfers from Costa Rica and Mexico into the repechage rounds. While Australian Harley Ingleby ran away with the heat scoring a 15.67 heat total, Thomas had to settle for medium scores of 5.5 and 4.20 for his top two rides.

He now faces 2009 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games Longboard Champion Antoine Delpero from France and Jean Tahutini from Tahiti in his third round match up that is likely to take place on Tuesday.

Tuesday will see the girls get their campaign back underway after three days of watching on the sidelines. This will mean Paige and Laura will be back in action along with the two longboarders.

A massive swell has pummeled the Peruvian coastline for the past three days forcing the event to run only one of the two podiums on offer for two days.

The Billabong ISA World Surfing Games run 19-27 October and the event sees over 200 competitors from 31 nations competing for their national colours.
The 2010 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games uses a double elimination format meaning that all surfers have to place third or fourth in their heats twice, before being entirely eliminated from the event.

The Quiksilver New Zealand Surfing Team is looking to improve on the 11th placing in 2009 when the event was held in Costa Rica.

Results:

Open Men's Repechage Round 3
Heat 6
1, 12.94, Jason Torres, CRC, 2, 10.60, Filipe Toledo, BRA, 3, 9.97, Keone Campbell, NZL, 4, 7.94, Carlos Cabrero, PRC

Heat 8
1, 15.50, Greg Emslie, ZAF, 2, 10.47, Julian del Pozo, SPA, 3, 8.84, Morehu Roberts, NZL, 4, 8.53, Saito Kaname, JPN

Open Men's Repechage Round 4
Heat 2
1, 15.50, Javier Swayne, PER, 2, 10.94, Angelo Lozano, MEX, 3, 6.76, Luke Hughes, NZL, 4, 4.17, Rafael Pereira, VEN

Heat 4
1, 15.67, Carlos Munoz, CRC, 2, 12.70, Nick White, NZL, 3, 9.03, Guillermo Satt, CHL, 4, 8.40, Mario Lopez, SPA

Open Men's Repechage Round 5
Heat 1
1, Warwick Wright, ZAF, 2, Chad du Toit, ZAF, 3, Angelo Lozano, MEX, 4, Nick White, NZL

Men's Longboard Qualifying Round 2
Heat 1
1, 15.67, Harley Ingleby, AUS, 2, 9.70, Thomas Kibblewhite, NZL, 3, 9.34, Patricio Gonzales, MEX, 4, 6.50, Anthony Flores, CRC

Heat 8
1, Josh Constable, AUS, 2, Daniel Procter, NZL, 4, Dieter Gerards, GER, 3, Christian Santamaria, CRC

Men's Longboard Qualifying Round 3
Heat 2
Antoine Delpero, FRA, Thomas Kibblewhite, NZL, Jean Tahutini, TAH, Matthew Moir, ZAF

Heat 3
Benoit Clemente, PER, Heifara Tahutini, TAH, Remi Arauzo, FRA, Daniel Procter, NZL

Open Women Qualifying Round 3
Heat 2
Sarah Beardmore, UK, Paige Hareb, NZL, Anali Gomez, PER, Tashiro Nagisa, JPN

Heat 3
Sofia Mulanovich, PER, Karelle Poppke, TAH, Alize Arnaud, FRA, Laura Rishworth, NZL