2024 ISA World Para Surfing Championship

The event will take place from November 3 - 9, 2024 on the south side of the Huntington Beach Pier.

• Saturday, November 2
  • 9 a.m.: Volunteer Training @ South Side of Huntington Beach Pier 
• Sunday, November 3
  • 9 a.m.: Para Surfing Clinic (TBD) @ South Side of Huntington Beach Pier
  • 1:30 p.m.: Opening Ceremony @ Pier Plaza
• Monday, November 4 - Saturday, November 9
  • 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.: Competition @ South Side of Huntington Beach Pier
• Saturday, November 9
  • Time TBD: Closing Ceremony @ Pier Plaza

A Parade of Nations and Opening Ceremony will take place in Downtown Huntington Beach beginning around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 3. The parade will commence at the intersection of Orange Ave. and Main St. and end in the amphitheater area of Pier Plaza. 

More information will be made available soon.

Click HERE to sign up to volunteer.

See all the action live from the sands of Huntington City Beach or check it out online at ISASurf.org 

The goal of classification in Para Surfing is to accurately allocate the athlete into their best surf class to ensure a high level of competition and a more leveled playing field, minimizing the impact of impairment on the sport performance. 

Athletes are grouped into one of nine classifications depending on their particular physical conditions. Each classification will crown men's and women's World Champions. 

• Stand 1
• Stand 2
• Stand 3
• Kneel
• Sit
• Prone 1
• Prone 2
• Vision Impairment 1
• Vision Impairment 2

Full details for each classification can be found HERE.

The International Surfing Organization (ISA), founded in 1964, is recognized by the International Olympic Committee as the World Governing Authority for Surfing. The ISA governs and defines Surfing as Shortboard, Longboard & Bodyboarding, StandUp Paddle (SUP) Racing and Surfing, Para-Surfing, Bodysurfing, Wakesurfing, and all other wave riding activities on any type of waves, and on flat water using wave riding equipment. The ISA crowned its first Men’s and Women’s World Champions in 1964. It crowned the first Big Wave World Champion in 1965; World Junior Champion in 1980; World Kneeboard Champions in 1982; World Longboard Surfing and World Bodyboard Champions in 1988; World Tandem Surfing Champions in 2006; World Masters Champions in 2007; World StandUp Paddle (SUP, both surfing and racing) and Paddleboard Champions in 2012, and World Para Surfing Champions in 2015.

ISA membership includes the surfing National Federations of 109 countries on five continents. The ISA is presided over by Fernando Aguerre (ARG). The Executive Committee includes four Vice-Presidents Karín Sierralta (PER), Kirsty Coventry (ZIM), Casper Steinfath (DEN) and Barbara Kendall (NZL), Athletes’ Commission Chair Justine Dupont (FRA), Regular Members Atsushi Sakai (JPN) and Jean Luc Arassus (FRA) and ISA Executive Director Robert Fasulo as Ex-officio Member.

Its headquarters are located in La Jolla, California (USA).