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View Pictures -View Comments -View Friends -HomeKelly Slater (born Robert Kelly Slater on February 11, 1972) from Cocoa Beach, Florida is the most successful professional surfer in the history of the sport. He is, according to peers, a surfing genius.
Kelly is a seven-time world champion (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005) 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. 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 Beach with her mother.
Slater is considered by the specialized media as the best surfer ever. At the Nova Schin Festival in Brazil in November 2005, he won his seventh 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.
- Wikipedia.org Career victories: 43
WCT victories: 31
World titles: 7 (1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005)
2005
Billabong Pro (Teahupoo, Tahiti)
The Globe WCT (Fiji)
Billabong Pro (South Africa)
The Boost Mobile Pro (Trestles, California)
2004
Snickers Australian Open (QS)
Energy Australia Open (QS)
2003
Billabong Pro (Teahupoo, Tahiti)
Billabong Pro (South Africa)
Billabong Pro (Mundaka, Spain)
Nova Schin Festival (Brazil)
2002
The Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau (Specialty-Hawaii)
2000
Gotcha Tahiti Pro presented by Globe (Tahiti)
1999
Mountain Dew Pipe Masters (Hawaii)
1998
Billabong Pro (Australia)
G-Shock Triple Crown of Surfing (Specialty-Hawaii)
1997
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
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
Quiksilver Pro (Indonesia)
Chiemsee Pipe Masters (Hawaii)
Triple Crown of Surfing (Specialty-Hawaii)
1994
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
Marui Pro (Japan)
1992
Rip Curl Pro Landes (France)
Marui Masters (Hawaii)