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11th February 1972 |
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Cocoa Beach, Florida, USA |
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Kelly Slater (born Robert Kelly Slater on February 11, 1972) is a top professional surfer from Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Kelly was six-time world champion (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998) and took many modern surfing moves to a new level. He was involved in the X-Games in 2003 and 2004 and has been a big factor that has helped the East Coast beat the West Coast team two years in a row in the Surfing competition.
To this day, he can be seen in magazines such as Surfing Magazine, Transworld Surf, and Surfer magazine. In the 2005 Billabong Pro Tahiti event on the ASP World Championship Tour, Kelly set an ASP record by scoring 2 perfect 10s in a final. Kelly is the first to have a perfect heat since the two-wave scoring system was implemented.
In 1991 Kelly was chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World. Besides surfing he's also modeled for Versace and during the 90's he formed a band called The Surfers which released an album of surf music, Songs From the Pipe. Slater also acted for one season on the American TV series Baywatch as the character Jimmy Slade. A videogame by Treyarch and Activision named Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer was released September 17, 2002.. In 2003 he released an autobiography called, "Pipe Dreams: A Surfer's Journey." Kelly has an eight year old daugther named Taylor who lives in Cocoa with her mother.
Slater is considered by the specialized media as the best surfer ever. He is now Leading, with a very good margin, the 2005 ratings for the World Title. He has been given the nickname "the Michael Jordan of surfing" by the media and his fans.. His main sponsor is Quiksilver and his favorite waves are the Pipe in Hawaii and Kirra in Australia.
Pro Surfing Titles
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- Career victories: 37
- WCT victories: 27
- World titles: 6 (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998)
2003
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- The Billabong Pro in Teahupoo, Tahiti
- The Billabong Pro in South Africa
- The Billabong Pro in Mundaka, Spain
- The Nova Schin Festival in Brazil
2002
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- The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau (Specialty-Hawaii)
2000
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- Gotcha Tahiti Pro presented by Globe (Tahiti)
1999
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- Mountain Dew Pipe Masters (Hawaii)
1998
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- Billabong Pro (Australia)
- G-Shock Triple Crown of Surfing (Specialty-Hawaii)
1997
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- Coke Surf Classic (Australia)
- Billabong Pro (Australia)
- Tokushima Pro (Japan)
- Marui Pro (Japan)
- Kaiser Summer Surf WCT (Brazil)
- Grand Slam (Specialty-Australia)
- Typhoon Lagoon Surf Challenge (Specialty-USA)
1996
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- Coke Surf Classic (Australia)
- Rip Curl Pro Saint Leu (Reunion Island)
- CSI pres. Billabong Pro (South Africa)
- U.S. Open (California)
- Rip Curl Pro Hossegor (France)
- Quiksilver Surfmasters (France)
- Chiemsee Pipe Masters (Hawaii)
- Sud Ouest Trophee (Specialty-France)
- Da Hui Backdoor Shootout (Specialty-Hawaii)
1995
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- Quiksilver Pro (Indonesia)
- Chiemsee Pipe Masters (Hawaii)
- Triple Crown of Surfing (Specialty-Hawaii)
1994
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- Rip Curl Pro (Australia)
- Gotcha Lacanau Pro (France)
- Chiemsee Pipe Masters (Hawaii)
- The Bud Surf Tour (WQS-USA)
- The Bud Surf Tour (WQS-USA)
- Sud Ouest Trophee (Specialty-France)
1993
1992
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- Rip Curl Pro Landes (France) Marui Masters (Hawaii)
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