ASB Surfing Spirit Award: Misfit Aid representatives with Keith Curtain of ASB Magazine Male Surfer of the Year: Joel Parkinson Female Surfer of the Year: Stephanie Gilmore with Senator the Hon Kate Lundy
Surfing Australia Chief Executive Officer Andrew Stark said the night was an historic moment for the sport. “What a fantastic night for our sport and one that will certainly become entrenched in the history books as one of the great celebrations of the sport,” Stark said. “We certainly celebrated the 50th Anniversary in style and we are very proud of the event itself with so many amazing ambassadors in attendance to celebrate. It was a gathering of the surfing tribe from grassroots to the greatest champions.” The Australian Surfing Awards was proudly supported by the NSW Government, through Destination NSW, and is a key event on the NSW Events Calendar. In other awards announced during the ceremony, current ASP Men’s World Champion Joel Parkinson was named the Male Surfer of the Year; Gilmore was named Female Surfer of the Year; and ASP Men’s World Junior Champion Jack Freestone won the Rising Star Award. Ten-time Molokai paddleboard champion, big wave rider and SUP champion Jamie Mitchell won the Waterman of the Year Award. The ASB Surfing Spirit Award was won by Misfit Aid, which is the not-for-profit arm of Sydney-based surfboard manufacturer Misfit Shapes. Its aim is to design, implement and resource aid and development projects in communities around the world. The Peter Troy Lifestyle Award for the person who has given their life over to surfing and in doing so has enriched the surfing culture around them was won by surfing historian Bob Smith. The Surf Culture Award was won by The Reef, a co-production by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Tura New Music. It is a multimedia performance inspired by the rugged surf and tough desert landscape of the Ningaloo Coast in north-west Australia. The Simon Anderson Club Award was won by Kirra Surfriders Club, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2012. Peter ‘Joli’ Wilson’s photo of the wave Cloudbreak off Fiji during the enormous run of swell in June, 2012, won the Nikon Surf Photo of the Year and Storm Surfers 3D featuring Ross Clarke-Jones and Tom Carroll was named the Nikon Surf Movie of the Year.
Waterman of the Year: Jamie Mitchell
Peter Troy Lifestyle Award: Bob Smith with Libby Troy
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Surf Culture Award: The Reef – by the Australian Chamber Orchestra and Tura New Music. Mike Sowry (right) with Surfing Australia chairman Norm Innis
Nikon Surf Movie of the Year: Storm Surfers 3D team with Nikon Brand Communications Manager Georgia Way (left)
Nikon Surf Photo of the Year: Peter ‘Joli’ Wilson (right) with Nikon Head of Marketing Nick Segger
Simon Anderson Club Award: Kirra Surfriders Club – Simon Anderson with club representatives
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