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Young stars shine at Noosa Alive By Margie Maccoll Any one of seven finalists in this year’s Noosa Stars Alive competition could have taken out the winner’s title, such was the standard of their performances, Noosa Alive artistic director Ian Mackellar told the audience last Sunday at the event that marked the end of the 10-day Noosa Alive festival. “We’re all about showcasing, nurturing the wonderful talent we have here on the coast,“ the competition founder said. “Each and everyone of them was outstanding.“ In the competition’s third year, for the first time judges awarded second ($500) and third ($250) place prizes in addition to the winning prize of $1000 and title. Selected through an audition process, the seven finalists performed on stage at Lions Park, Gympie Terrace, on Sunday in front of an audience and judges Ian Mackellar, Noosa Alive president Andrew Stafford and actor Jo Hendrie. Continued page 4 Winners of Noosa Stars Alive Rafael Estrade and Nate Campbell. (Rob Maccoll)
Paddleboard best While the sporting words eyes have been focusing on France, a Sunshine coast Lifeguard has became a Paddleboard world champion. Twenty-eight year old Lachie Lansdown from Sunrise Beach has dedicated the last 11 years to chasing his dream of winning the gruelling Moloaki to Oahu world paddleboard world championships. Early Monday morning Australian time his dream finally came true. The Molokai to Oahu paddle board race is a 52km race though open ocean from the Ha-
waiian island of Molokai back to the island of Oahu. The channel is called the “the channel of bones” named for it dangerous reputation, ships and been lost in its 700m deep waters and many lives lost, including that of famous Hawaiian waterman and lifeguard Eddie Aikau. This was the place the surfers saying “Eddie would go” was born. His journey to this win has not been one without ups and downs. Lachie choose the hard route paddling in the traditional stock board class, where competitors are limited to
using a 12 foot long paddleboard, not only is class harder, it is considerably more competitive than the unlimited category where there is normally only a small number of entrants who could realistically win. Over his last seven races a 17 year old Lachie paired up with Hawaiian lifeguard Kurt Lager to win the relay division on first attempt, the following year he moved in the solo class with a breakthrough second place, but this was to be his hallmark. His next five races saw him with a sixth place and a sole destroying further
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four second places. Along the way he amassed a number of impressive wins in the world’s most prestige paddleboard races recording four wins, on both stock and unlimited classes, and a course record at the Catania Classic in California, as well as becoming the most successful male athlete in the ISA, racking up gold medals in there world paddle championships, Mexico, Fiji, Demark, and China. Continued page 7