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The
Beach Breaks Carnival is a vibrant community event
held along the picturesque Maroubra Beach promenade.
The event celebrates the surfing history and culture
of Maroubra Beach.
The
Beach Breaks Carnival includes surfing contests, market
stalls, food and drinks, amusement rides, live entertainment
and an induction of a surfing legend into the Australian
Surfing Walk of Fame.
The
event will be held on Sunday 23 July 2017, from
12noon to 4.30pm.
Carnival
venue
Maroubra
Beach
Event
details
Nominations for the Australian Surfing Walk of Fame
have now closed.
The Australian Surfing Walk of Fame at Maroubra Beach
was initiated in 2006 and is the first of its kind
in Australia. The Surfing Walk of Fame recognises
and celebrates the outstanding achievements of Australia's
leading surfers and surf life savers. The Surfing
Walk of Fame is a prestigious and sought after award
within Australia's surfing beach culture. Inductees
are highly regarded and considered 'Legends of Surf'
– water men and water women.
The
surfers and surf life savers inducted into the Australian
Surfing Walk of Fame will have a bronze plaque laid
into the promenade at Maroubra Beach at the 2017 Beach
Breaks Carnival on Sunday 23 July 2017 at 1pm.
Stallholder
Information - submissions closed COB 30 June 2017
Randwick City Council invited local businesses and
organisation to support this year's Beach Breaks Carnival
and Surfing Walk of Fame by participating as an event
stallholder.
Stallholder
Information Booklet PDF, 10126.63 KB
Sustainable
event tips PDF, 762.8 KB
For
more information, please call our Events Team on 9399
0792 or email events@randwick.nsw.gov.au.
Here
are some highlights from the 2016 Beach Breaks Carnival
PAST
INDUCTEES
2016
Gordon Merchant AM - Founding member of Maroubra Surfers
Association and outstanding contribution to surfing
Jon Donohoe AM - Australian Surf Race Champion 1955,
1958, 1959, 1961, Australian Surf team representative
1960, 1961 (Captain), Olympian 1956
Leigh McCleery (nee Habler) - 1st Female Australian
Surf Lifesaving Team Captain 1999-2001, Australian
Surf Lifesaving team member 1996, 1999, 2000, 2001,
2002, Olympian 1992
2015
Steve ‘Blackie’ Wilson - Pro surfer, big
wave charger and local Maroubra legend
Jessi Miley-Dyer - World Junior champion 2003, 2005,
Billabong Pro Maui Champion 2006, World Number 4,
WCT 2006-2011
Walter Brown - Olympic Bronze Medallist 1956 K2 10,000
metres, Australian Surf Ski Champion 1953 &1956
Ron McKeon - Australian Surf Live Saving Champion
Cadet Surf 1976, Junior Surf 1977, 1979, Open Surf
1980, Open Belt 1984, Olympian 1980 & 1984
2014
Mark Scott - 1980 World Surfing Champion and outstanding
contribution to surf life saving
Dennis Green - Australian Surf Life Saving Champion
2013
Grant Kenny - OAM World Ironman Champion and Outstanding
contribution to surf life saving
Tony Seddon - Australian Surf Life Saving Champion
and outstanding contribution to surfing
Lynette MacKenzie - World Surfing Champion
2009
Dennis Heussner - OAM Captain Australian Surf Life
Saving Team 1970-1971
Karla Gilbert - World Ironwoman Championship 2000-2002
Larry Blair - 2SM/Coca Cola Surfabout Championship
1978
Mark Richards - World Surfing Championship 1979 –
1982 Inductees Inductees Australian Surfing Walk of
Fame at Maroubra Beach
2006
Snow McAlister - Outstanding contribution to surfing
Nat Young - World Surfing Champion
Midget Farrelly - World Surfing Champion 1964
Barry Rodgers - Australian Ironman Champion 1967,
1968, 1969
(Credit:
Randwick City Council)
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