Carroll, Tom
Dynamic and durable power surfer from Sydney, Australia; world champion in 1983 and 1984, and one of the sport's premier tuberiders. Carroll was born (1961) in Sydney, the son of a newspaper editor, raised in the beachfront suburb of Newport, and began surfing at age eight, a few months after his mother died of pancreatic cancer. Hawaiian style master Gerry Lopez was an early influence on Carroll,...
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Tom Carroll
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Tom Carroll, 1980. Photo: Craig Fineman
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Tom Carroll. Photo: Brian Bielmann
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Tom Carroll, Kirra, 1984. Photo: Hugh McLeod
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Tom Carroll, Pipeline, 1991. Photo: A. Sodre
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Tom Carroll, 1983 Stubbies