Tom Carroll personal 6’6 thruster shaped by JP Stark (1994)

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Tom Carroll personal 6’6 thruster signed by Tom in 1994 and shaped by the legendary Jean Pierre Stark.

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Thomas Victor “Tom” 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 Pipe Masters. He became the first surfing millionaire after signing a contract with Quiksilver in 1989.

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 the challenge from veteran Shaun Tomson to win the championship again.

In 1988, he made history again by becoming the first surfer to secure a million dollar contract (with Quiksilver). He finished third that year and again in 1991 (taking the Triple Crown the same year) before retiring in 1993. In total, Carroll took 26 career world tour wins, three Pipe Masters victories (87, 90, and 91), and two world titles.

Carroll and fellow Australian big wave surfer Ross Clarke-Jones currently travel the world searching for large swells for the Discovery Channel television series Storm Surfers. In 2012, he appeared in Storm Surfers 3D.

Carroll won the 1984 Surfer Poll and was inducted into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame in 1990. In 1991, he won Australia’s Surfing Life Peer Poll and 8 years later was inducted into the Huntington Beach Surfing Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1992. He was voted in at Number 7 on Surfer Magazine’s list of the “Greatest Surfers of All Time”.

Read the full article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Carroll_(surfer)

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