The World Surfing Champion title is awarded annually to the best competition surfer for the year, based on points earned for placings at which events?
2016 World Surf League Source: Legend Legend 2016 World Surf League The 2016 World Surf League World Championship Tour (WCT) is a professional competitive surfing league run by the World Surf League. Men and women compete in separate tours with events taking place from late February to mid-December, at various surfing locations around the world. Surfers receive points for their best events. The surfer with the most points at the end of the tour (after discarding their two worst results) is announced the 2016 World Surf League Surfing World Champion. Points are awarded using the following structure: Legend Source: Points are awarded using the
Peter Townend (surfer) Peter Townend (surfer) Peter Townend (born 1953), also known as PT, is an Australian surfer and first IPS/ASP World Surfing Champion. Townend, born in Coolangatta, Queensland (Australia), was considered to be one of the best surfers in the world throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Townend had an extensive résumé apart from surfing, including movie stuntman, contest organizer, writer, publisher, marketer, and coach to future champions. Townend began surfing in 1967 and attended his first competition in 1969. By this time he was already shaping boards as well as doing promotional work for Gordon and Smith Australia and working as a