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AUSSIE’S RULE THE WAVES
By FRANK B | December 17, 2009
On the back of Mick Fanning’s second world championship and Stephanie Gilmore’s third world crown in three years, compatriot Taj Burrow’s win at the Pipeline Masters in Hawaii has thrust Australian surfers centre stage.
In a month when the waves on the north shore of Oahu reached above 12 metres, ”Parko” finished with the highest points total from events at Haleiwa, Sunset Beach and Pipeline. to win the van triple crown
The season-ending event in Hawaii’s monstrous winter swells left Australians first, second, third and fourth on the men’s world tour, while Gilmore’s dominance of women’s surfing (she also won her second consecutive triple crown) heightens speculation she could one day break Layne Beachley’s record seven world titles.
Fanning’s second world title makes him the first men’s surfer since Damien Hardman (1987 and ‘91) to twice bring the Association of Surfing Professionals’ crown to Australia. In between Hardman and Fanning it was Mark Occhilupo in 1999 who defied the odds – returning to the professional circuit after years of retirement to win world surfing’s greatest prize.
Since Occhilupo’s crowning moment, Australian surfing has gone from strength to strength and the results are beginning to mirror the success last seen during the late 1970s and early ’80s, when Australian men won eight of the first nine world titles
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