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Australian Stephanie Gilmore (21) was the high-scorer today as the Movistar Peru Classic presented by Rip Curl completed Round 1 of competition, netting the highest heat total of the day, a 14.44 out of a possible 20.

Peru's Sofia Mulanovich (26) was another standout today, and advanced directly to Round 3.

Brazilian Silvana Lima (25) survived a closely-fought Round 1 affair, edging past Australian Samantha Cornish (29), and wildcard Peruvian Anali Gomez (21).

While the top seeds took out five of the six Round 1 heats today, the big upset came in the opening affair of the round as current ASP Women's World No. 5, Melanie Bartels (HAW), 27, was relegated to the elimination Round 2 by an in-form Rebecca Woods (AUS), 25, and 2009 ASP Dream Tour rookie Alana Blanchard (HAW), 19.

Highlights from today's Movistar Peru Classic will be available via www.aspworldtour.com

(Condensed from Surf.co.nz)

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Nicolás Schreier and Sebastián Aguirre repeated at Brazil the world title in the Open and Under-17 categories.

The Peruvian team had a great performance after getting several silver and bronze medals at the South American Championship of Windsurf, Formula Experience mode, staged at Maragogi beach in Brazil between October 30 and November 3.

Nicolás Schreier and Sebastián Aguirre showed why they are windsurf world champions: they won with a big advantage in Open and Under-17 categories respectively, of the Windsurf South American Championship.

In the Master category (older than 35), Ricardo Cano got the second place. In the Under-20 category, Santiago Canseco and Wilfredo Blondet took the silver and bronze medals, respectively.

In the Under-17 category there was an all-Peruvian podium: Sebastián Aguirre, Matas Canseco and Ernesto Porcari took the gold, silver and bronze, respectively.

In the Ladies category, Carolina Butrich and Alexandra Vernal got silver and bronze.

Finally, the Peruvian team took home the Nations Cup, thanks to the best combined results from the different categories.

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Peru's Sofia Mulanovich is currently ready to take part in 2009 ASP Women’s World Tour Event, No. 5 of 7, the Movistar Peru Classic presented by Rip Curl.

Mulanovich arrived in Lima last Saturday, after competing in Portugal, where she made it to quarterfinals after being eliminated by Hawaiian Coco Ho.

“I can’t promise anything, but I’ll do my best for my country; my body and soul will be with my country. One of my dreams is to win here, we’ll see what happens,” she said.

Sofia will compete against Australian Stephanie Gilmore and Brazilian Silvana Lima, who are in top of the world rank.

The Movistar Peru Classic presented by Rip Curl, has called a lay day today, with strong winds damaging the event site at Lobitos.

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Peru's soccer player Juan Vargas didn't take pity on Catania, his first team in Italy; he had an important participation in the "Violas" third goal.

The goals for Fiorentina were scored by Marco Marchionni (5' and 69') and by Alberto Gilardino (86'). Mascara did the one for the Sicilian team at 48th.

The team of the Peruvian player is ranking fifth with 18 points, one behind AC Milan with 19 points, the fourth and last by the moment at Champions League classification zone.

Meanwhile, in the Spanish Liga Primera, Peru's Santiago Acasiete team, Almeria, lost to Zaragoza 2-1.

Almeria currently ranks 15th with 9 points after nine rounds, just five points above the 20th and last, Malaga CF.

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A group of Peruvian athletes will participate in Ironman triathlon (USA) to help children with cancer.

At Ironman competitions they will swim 3.8 kms at sea, ride bicycles for 180 km and run 42.2 kms.

Fifteen Peruvian athletes specialized in triathlon will take part of this competition on November 7th, in Panama City Beach in Florida (USA).

The Ironman is one of the most demanding physical tests in the world.

"Our goal is to finish this competition on behalf of little patients at Frieda Heller Lodge, to be able to give them some moments of joy and happiness --as well as  to provide some economic support for the lodge-- to help the children a home to live in while in treatment."

“We want to give them a smile," said Vincent Block, member of Ironman Perú.

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Peru's Claudio Pizarro, the best scorer at Werder Bremen, is one of the best paid players of the whole Bundesliga and is also about to break the record of 133 goals scored, set by Brazilian Elber, the best scorer until now.

Meanwhile, Juan Vargas is reportedly drawing the interest of important European clubs such as Real Madrid and Inter Milan.

They both have been included in the annual world's most popular soccer players list prepared by the International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS).

The IFFHS has drawn up the following list of 115 currently active players from 68 countries in all six football continents, and people can vote online.

The results will be announced in January 2010.

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Peruvian surfer Sofía Mulanovich placed third in the first round of the Female World Championship at Portugal and has to go to a play-off for the next phase against Australian Alana Blanchard and French Pauline Ado.

Mulanovich got 8.03 points in her series, while Chelsea Hedges and Jessi Miley-Dyer, her occasional rivals, got 11.33 and 9.84 points, respectively.

Mulanovich could only run on Wednesday after the competitions were postponed twice due to bad weather at Peniche's beaches (Portugal).

Earlier in the competition, Australian Stephanie Gilmore, number one in the world, confirmed that she is a candidate to the world title after beating fellow countrywoman Amee Donohoe and the French surfer Ado.

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Peruvian surfer Sofia Mulanovich will participate today (Tuesday) in the fourth stage of the 2009 Female World Championship; Monday round was suspended due to bad weather at the Peniche beaches in Portugal.

Both Rip Curl's Women's as well as Rip Curl Pro had to be postponed due to bad weather, which made the surfers to have a day off.

The tournament will restart on Tuesday morning and Mulanovich will try to advance in the competition to shorten distances with Australian Stephanie Gilmore, leader of the world classification.

Sofia trained intensively in Piura at Lobitos beaches, next month's venue for the fifth stage of the world championship.

Mulanovich was the first Peruvian and South American to be crowned world champion, after winning the tournament organized by the Association of Professional Surfers.

This title is won by the person who gains the most points during the official events all year round.

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Peruvian goalkeeper Diego Penny made his debut at Premier League with a defeat; he played from minute 15th in the first half, but could not do much to avoid his team's defeat against Wigan by 1-3.

The Peruvian goalkeeper got into the field at minute 15th replacing injured Jensen Brian at Burnley's goal, although he wasn't very lucky.

His team lost to Wigan at home, at the 10th round of the Premier League. Burnley opened the scorboard at 4th thanks to Fletcher, but the tie came seven minutes later, at 11thwith a goal from Hugo Rodallega.

The Colombian forward got his second goal of the day at 51st and Boyce put the third one at 76th.

With these results, Burnley is now in the 11th position with 12 points, and Wigan went up to the 10th place with 13 points.

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President Alan Garcia said the only way Peruvian soccer get out of ruin, is to convert the clubs into anonymous societies. "It is time now to rescue Peruvian soccer from the abyss," he said.

With such an action, everybody who wants to participate in soccer could buy common stocks. Countries like France do this.

Then he added: "Other countries adopted another alternative, with only the bigs clubs turning into anonymous societies, I don't think anybody could think about intervention from the government, in that case."

Garcia announced his government is going to present a bill to make this idea come true.

"A change in the system will allow (Peruvian) soccer to be revitalized and the clubs to have more cash to bring high level foreign players to help to improve the level (of soccer) in Peru."

"We need to change the system because it's not working and the consequence is to be at the very bottom in South America. Modern soccer requires modern organization," he added.

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