Bernard “Midget” Farrelly, who won surfing’s first world championship and was a pioneering surfboard designer, has died at age 71, Surfing Australia confirmed Monday. Farrelly became the first Australian to win a major surfing title when he won the Makaha Invitational in Hawaii in 1963. He won the first official world championship off Sydney’s Manly […]
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