Green, Gary
Cheerful, sardonic Australian pro surfer from Cronulla, New South Wales; world-ranked #14 in 1986, the same year he won the Gunston 500, his first and only pro tour victory. Green was born in 1963, the son of a rubber factory worker and a barmaid, and raised in a $30-a-week flat in land-locked western Sydney. He began surfing in Cronulla at age 10. At 14, his parents divorced, and two years later ...
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(L to R) Mark Occhilupo, Joe Engel, Gary Green, 1984 Billabong adSubscribe to view
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Gary Green
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Gary Green. Photo: Robert Beck
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Gary Green, around 1985
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Gary Green, 1985. Photo: Martin Tullemans
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Gary Green. Photo: Sean Davey
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(L to R) Mark Occhilupo, Joe Engel, Gary Green, 1984 Billabong ad