Tom carroll actor
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Tom Carroll
Tom Carroll (b.1961), former professional surfer, made the finals of the 1979 Pipe Masters on his first ever world tour, finishing 24th in the world that same year. He continued to ascend from 17th to 10th to 3rd before taking the world title in 1983, becoming the first goofy foot world champion. The following year he defeated veteran Shaun Tomson to win the championship again. Having boycotted the South African leg of the 1985 tour in protest against apartheid he fell behind Tom Curren. In 1988, he made history again by securing a million dollar contract with surf outfitters Quiksilver. He retired in 1993 with twenty-six career world tour wins, three Pipe Masters victories (1987, 1990, and 1991), and two world titles. He was inducted into the Australian Suring Hall of Fame in 1990 and the Huntington Beach Surfing Hall of Fame in 1999 and was seventh on Surfer magazine's list of the fifty greatest surfers of all time in 2010. Carroll and fellow Australian big-wave surfer Ross Clarke-Jones currently travel the world for the Discovery Channel television series Storm Sur
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The Unsinkable Tom Carroll
Tom Carroll, Pipeline, 1990. Photo: Adriano Sodre
Tom (right) and Nick Carroll, 1990. Photo: Jeff Divine
Tom Carroll, 1987
Tom Carroll, 1979. Photo: Hugh McLeod
Carroll (left) and Curren, Bells, 1986
The Western world developed a huge Aussie crush in the 1980s: Mel Gibson, Men at Work, Crocodile Dundee, Olivia Newton-John, The Thorn Birds. Surfing, of course, had Tom Carroll.
The Marui Pro world tour contest, held at Chiba, Japan, was the least-popular event among IPS pros. It was a long flight for most surfers to get there, the language barrier was high, the surf was often flat, and the English-language surf mags usually didn't bother to send a reporter. Yet the 1982 Marui Pro proved to be the bellwether event of the year. The surf, for once, was good—overhead and of...
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Tom Carroll (surfer)
Australian surfer
| Tom Carroll | |
|---|---|
| Born | Thomas Victor Carroll (1961-11-26) 26 November 1961 (age 63) Newport, New South Wales, Australia |
| Height | 169 cm (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 69 kg (152 lb) |
| Best year | 1984 |
| Major achievements | WCT Title 1983, 1984 |
| Stance | Goofy |
Thomas Victor Carroll (born 26 November 1961, Newport, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian former professional surfer from Sydney. He won the Australian Junior Title in 1978, the Pro Juniors in 1977 and 1980, the 1983 and 1984 ASP World Tour, and the 1987, 1990 and 1991 Pipe Masters. He became the first surfing millionaire after signing a contract with Quiksilver in 1989.[1]
Pro tour highlights
Carroll made the finals of the 1979 Pipe Masters as a world tour rookie, finishing 24th in the world that same year. He continued to ascend from 17th to 10th to 3rd before taking the world title in 1983 (winning 6 of 13 events) and distinguishing himself as the first goofy foot world champion.
The following year he answered t
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