Billabong Pipeline Masters

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Billabong Pipe Masters
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event Billabong Pipe Masters 2019
SportSurfing
CountryHawaii
Most recent
champion(s)		 John John Florence (USA)
Most titles Kelly Slater (USA) (7)

The Billabong Pipeline Masters is an event in surfing held annually at Banzai Pipeline in Oahu, Hawaii. It was established in 1971, and has been sponsored by Billabong since 2007.[1]

The event attracts the top 34 surfers from The World Surf League (WSL) as well as 32 surfers who compete in walk-on trials. The surfers compete for a share of US$525,000 prize money.[citation needed][needs update?] The event is the final leg of the Triple Crown of Surfing and the final event on the WSL Championship Tour,[2] except in 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic eliminated the 2020 calendar season, with the December Pipeline Masters serving as the opening event of a 2020–21 competition season.[3]

Winners[]

Year Winner
1971 Hawaii Jeff Hakman
1972 Hawaii Gerry Lopez
1973 Hawaii Gerry Lopez (2)
1974 United States
1975 South Africa Shaun Tomson
1976 Hawaii
1977 Hawaii (2)
1978 Australia
1979 Australia (2)
1980 Australia Mark Richards
1981 Australia Simon Anderson
1982 Hawaii Michael Ho
1983 Hawaii
1984 United States
1985 Australia Mark Occhilupo
1986 Hawaii Derek Ho
1987 Australia Tom Carroll
Australia
Australia Gary Elkerton
Australia Tom Carroll (2)
Australia Tom Carroll (3)
United States Kelly Slater
Hawaii Derek Ho (2)
United States Kelly Slater (2)
United States Kelly Slater (3)
United States Kelly Slater (4)
Hawaii John Gomes
Australia Jake Paterson
United States Kelly Slater (5)
2000 United States Rob Machado
2001 Hawaii Bruce Irons
2002 Hawaii Andy Irons
2003 Hawaii Andy Irons (2)
2004 Hawaii Jamie O'Brien
2005 Hawaii Andy Irons (3)
2006 Hawaii Andy Irons (4)
2007 Australia Bede Durbidge
2008 United States Kelly Slater (6)
2009 Australia Taj Burrow
2010 France Jeremy Flores
2011 Australia
2012 Australia Joel Parkinson
2013 United States Kelly Slater (7)
2014 Australia Julian Wilson
2015 Brazil Adriano de Souza
2016 French Polynesia Michel Bourez
2017 France Jérémy Florès (2)
2018 Brazil Gabriel Medina
2019 Brazil Italo Ferreira
2020† Hawaii John John Florence

† Rather than the closing event of the 2020 WSL season, which was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the December 2020 Pipeline Masters event kicks off a hybrid 2020-21 competitive season.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ Hartford, Teresa (2007-01-04). "Billabong to Sponsor Pipeline Masters". SGB Media. Retrieved 2021-11-27.
  2. ^ "2015 Men's Samsung Galaxy Championship Tour". World Surf League. Retrieved 30 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Things you need to know about the 2021 WSL surfing season(...)". Olympic Channel. December 3, 2020. Retrieved December 21, 2020.

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