"PERU WORLD CONTEST," BY JOHN SEVERSON (1965)
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The 1965 World Surfing Championships, held in Lima, Peru, has always been a surf-world oddity. Of the six pre-professional world titles ('64 to '72), Peru was the only one scheduled in an odd-numbered year, the only one held in big waves, and the only one with to produce a Latin American winner. The contest was essentially an overlay on the 1965 Peru International, same location, same format, whic...
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