Surfboard, used by Kelly Slater
date: label: date made
content: ca 2010
name: label: user
content: Slater, Kelly
notes: label: Description (Brief)
content: Champion surfer Kelly Slater (b. 1972) used this Channel Islands board to win the Rip Curl Pro tournament at Bells Beach, Australia, in April 2010. Later that year, the thirty-eight-year-old won an unprecedented tenth Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship. Slater chose this particular board to donate because of its special significance; he had a bad first event at the Bells Beach competition and was injured going into the second event. There were rumors that he was getting to old to surf but using this board he was able to win the event and turn his season around eventually winning his record setting 10th title. Slater has been surfing since he was a teen and is the only surfer to win the ASP World Surfing championship eleven times with five consecutive titles during the years 1994-1998. Slater is the youngest to win the title as a twenty year old and the oldest at age thirty-eight making him the most successful champion in the history of the sport. Slater continues to surf and is dedicated to preserving the oceans.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: name of sport
content: Surfing
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Highlights from the Culture and the Arts Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Kelly Slater
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0064.01
label: accession number
content: 2011.0064
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0064.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: surfboard
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: fiberglass (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 267 cm x 45 cm x 15 cm; 105 1/8 in x 17 23/32 in x 5 29/32 in