JC Susan's endeavour at the 2011 Billabong ISA World Surfing Games in Panama is over with the Mount Maunganui surfer finishing in 49^th place.

Entered in the open men's division, he was relegated to the repechage rounds on day two and has he finished his first heat in this group in third – knocking him out of the competition.

JC Susan. Photo: Cory NZ Surfing Magazine.

This came on the third day of the competition on which many other New Zealand surfers failed to make an impact and were also knocked out.

The shining light for the Kiwi team was captain Paige Hareb from Taranaki who moved through to the last six surfers in the open women's division after winning her heat in the fourth round with a score of 10.33.
'I went out with a plan to catch right handers and by the time we actually started the heat after a lengthy delay, the rights had disappeared,” says Paige.

'I didn't really have anything for the first 10 minutes of the heat and my leg hurts more going left so I didn't want to catch them, but time was running out so I had to go and I ended up getting a 7.33 and a low scoring back-up wave of 3.0.”
Her leg continues to give her problems at the event after injuring it on day one, however, through pain killers and massage, she is managing to push through the pain.
She now has a three person heat against fellow Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour surfer Jessi Miley Dyer and Dimity Stoyle to make it through to the semifinals and a chance and direct qualification for the grand final.

Her two competitors are part of the leading Australian team who are hoping to wrestle the gold medal off Peru who won the event in home waters in 2010.
Auckland longboaders Phil Morris and Matt Cockayne also kept their hopes alive on day three via two distinctly different pathways.
Phil, who was still in contention in the qualifying rounds, surfed a tightly contested heat, but ultimately placed fourth requiring a 6.56 and was relegated to the repechage rounds. He now faces one of the top seeds in Australian Dane Pioli, along with Frenchman Remi Arauzo and Meixcan Patricio Gonzalez in round four.
Matt Cockayne on the other hand was already fighting it out in the repechage rounds and progressed through two heats to join Morris in tomorrow's fourth round.
A first time national representative, Matt won his first heat scoring 10.83 points out of a possible 20 with single wave scores of 5.83 and 5.0 on his two scoring rides.
He then went on to a second placing in round three progressing alongside South African Justin Bing to reach the final eighteen surfers in the event.


Open Men's Repechage Round 2
Heat 3
1, 11.14, Magnum Martinez, VEN, 2, 9.53, Luis Chamorro, NIC, 3, 8.64, Tane Wallis, NZL, 4, 6.54, Deivis Godoy, PAN
Heat 5
1, 14.03, Matthew Bromley, RSA, 2, 11.37, Zen Wallis, NZL, 3, 10.23, Maximiliano Siri, ARG, 4, 9.87, Rex Calderon, NIC
Heat 7
1, 18.60, Leandro Usuna, ARG, 2, 14.67, Martin Jeri, PER, 3, 6.56, JC Susan, GUA, 4, 5.33, Swen Zaugg, SWI
Heat 9
1, 16.33, Juninho Urcia, PER, 2, 11.40, Ben Poulter, NZL, 3, 11.03, Jean Carlos Gonzalez, PAN, 4, 10.04, Adan Hernandez, MEX

Open Men's Repechage Round 3
Heat 4
1, 14.53, Ruda Carvalho, BRA, 2, 12.57, Martin Jeri, PER, 3, 9.73, Zen Wallis, NZL, 4, 9.42, Evan Thompson, USA
Heat 6
1, 16.06, Francisco Bellorin, VEN, 2, 13.83, Jeremy Flores, FRA, 3, 6.54, Ben Poulter, NZL, 4, 5.33, Gary Saavedra, PAN


Open Women's Qualifying Round 3
Heat 1
1, 10.33, Paige Hareb, NZL, 2, 10.17, Sofia Mulanovich, PER, 3, 5.50, Kaleigh Gilchrist, USA, 4, 3.47, Leilani McGonagle, CRI

Open Women's Qualifying Round 4 (Yet to be surfed)
Heat 1
Paige Hareb, NZL, Jessi Miley-Dyer, AUS, Dimity Stoyle, AUS

Open Women's Repechage Round 2
Heat 1
1, 7.00, Lucia Cosoleto, ARG, 2, 5.33, Alena Ehrenbold, SWI, 3, 3.97, Satoko Azumi, JPN, 4, 3.93, Grace Spiers, NZL


Men's Longboard Qualifying Round 3
Heat 3
1, 14.17, Antoine Delpero, FRA, 2, 11.23, Heifara Tahutini Jr., TAH, 3, 11.04, Caio Husadel, BRA, 4, 8.37, Phil Morris, NZL

Men's Longboard Repechage Round 2
Heat 1
1, 10.83, Matt Cockayne, NZL, 2, 10.23, Willber Marroquin, SAL, 3, 7.96, Laonardo Merchand, ECU, 4, 7.35, Tamil Martino, PER

Men's Longboard Repechage Round 3
Heat 1
1, 13.34, Justin Bing, RSA, 2, 9.33, Matt Cockayne, NZL, 3, 8.43, Anthony Flores, CRI, 4, 6.74, Stefan Vogel, SWI

Men's Longboard Repechage Round 4 (Yet to be surfed)
Heat 2
Caio Husadel, BRA, Martin Perez, ARG, Ronald Reyes, VEN, Matt Cockayne, NZL
Heat 3
Remi Arauzo, FRA, Phil Morris, NZL, Dane Pioli, AUS, Patricio Gonzalez, MEX

Day four will commence at 1:00am Thursday (New Zealand time).