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  1. Jun 25, 2015 · Photos: Witzig. Forty-five years ago, Rolf Aurness flew to Australia and absolutely ran the field to win the 1970 World Championships. Rolf was 18, and barely out of the Juniors division. Not only did he win convincingly, at a time when the Aussies were at their first and maybe greatest peak of high-performance domination (see: Evolution), but ...

  2. Gentle-natured goofyfoot surfer from Pacific Palisades, California; winner of the 1970 World Surfing Championships, at age 18, just months before dropping off the surf scene entirely. "He was the most magic surfer I've ever seen—apart from Tom Curren," surfboard shaper Marc Andreini later said. "Rolf simply floated across the water as if it ...

  3. Feb 18, 2014 · That was 44 years ago today. He won it unanimously, in excellent beachbreak surf at Johanna, up the coast from Lorne. Aurness was just 18 but collected and poised beyond his years, and he beat the finest, most progressive surfers from Australia, California, and Hawaii, in...

  4. Jun 5, 2019 · * * * In May of 1970, a tall, lean 18-year-old California goofyfoot named Rolf Aurness became the World Surfing Champion by overwhelming a stellar group of finalists —including Midget Farrelly, Peter Dro...

  5. Rolf Aurness - Surfing Wiki. Rolf Aurness was born on February 18, 1952 in Santa Monica, California. He won the 1970 World Surfing Championships held at Johanna in Victoria, Australia, beating Midget Farrelly in the finals. [1] [2] Contents. 1 Surfing career. 2 Personal life. 3 See also. 4 References. Surfing career.

  6. m.imdb.com › name › nm1000355Rolf Aurness - IMDb

    Actor: ISF World Surfing Championships. Rolf Aurness was born on 18 February 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is an actor, known for ISF World Surfing Championships (1964), Blue Cool (1972) and Pacific Vibrations (1970). He was previously married to Amilda Cuddy.

  7. Dec 28, 2022 · James Arness and his father Rolf Aurness | Here's a brief, rare and charming interview with James Arness and his father Rolf about their Norwegian ancestry, how Arness became an actor, and about... | By The Legacy of Gunsmoke | Father was nice enough to take me over. Yeah, come on in here Dan. We all getting the picture here today.

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