Midget Farrelly
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Bernard "Midget" Farrelly Template:Post-nominals (13 September 1944 – 6 August 2016) was the first world surfing champion.
Farrelly, was the first Australian to win a major surfing title, the 1962 Makaha International Surfing Championships, the unofficial world surfing championship of the day.[1] In 1964 he won the inaugural World Surfing Championship at Manly Beach in Sydney.[2][3][4]
Farrelly was also the first president, in 1961, of Australia's oldest surfboard riders club, Dee Why Surfing Fraternity, which still operates under the same name today.[5] He presented a ten-part television series about surfing in Australia, The Midget Farrelly Surf Show, for the ABC in 1967.[6]
Farrelly was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 and into the Surfing Walk of Fame at California's Huntington Beach in 2007.[7] Farrelly died on 6 August 2016, aged 71, from stomach cancer and liver failure.[3][8][9]
Farrelly was posthumously inducted as a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours.[10]
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- ↑ 1960 Dee Why Surfing Fraternity, www.dysf.com.au. Retrieved 7 August 2016
- ↑ Matt Warshaw, The Encyclopedia of Surfing, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005, pp. 193–94.
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External links
- Template:Trim/ Midget Farrelly at IMDbTemplate:EditAtWikidataScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".