Gary Elkerton
- January 10, 2024
- Surfer
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Gary Elkerton Biography
| Name | Gary Elkerton |
| Birthday | Aug 21 |
| Birth Year | 1964 |
| Birth Country | Australia |
| Birth Sign | Leo |
Gary Elkerton is one of the most popular and richest Surfer who was born on August 21, 1964 in Australia.
Elkerton won many prestigious amateur and pro-am titles around Australia throughout the years 1980–1984, including numerous Queensland Junior and Opens, the Cue Cola and JJJ Pro Juniors, The Jesus Classic Pro-Am and the Australian Open Amateur. 1978 World Champion, Wayne ‘Rabbit’ Bartholomew, became a lifelong mentor, confidant and friend during the period. He also developed a close friendship with Quiksilver founder Al Green, who funded trips to Hawaii and Grajagan, Java, Indonesia (where an outside reef break was also dubbed “Kong’s”). Hawaiian film maker Jack McCoy’s movie footage of Gary during these early surf trips and Quiksilver’s advertising campaigns caused ‘Kong’ to gain notoriety for his matadorial bravado in big waves, his low body-torque power and his hard-partying antics on land.
Elkerton the competitor was driven by the need to be world champion. His intent was to claim a World Amateur Title before embarking as a full-time professional on the ASP Pro Tour. Injury in 1982 and the failure of foreigners to impact the 1984 World Amateur Titles in California disrupted the plan; so he joined the Pro Tour halfway through the ’84 season, not as World Amateur Champion, but as a rookie with the highest possible profile.
Gary Elkerton Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Surfer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Gary Elkerton is one of the richest Surfer from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gary Elkerton 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Gary Elkerton (born 21 August 1964), known as Kong is an Australian surfer, three time world masters champion (2000–01, 2003), three time world professional runner-up (1987, 1990, 1993), twice Hawaiian Triple Crown champion (1987, 1989) and Australian amateur champion (1984). He is regarded as an iconic big-wave rider and is highly respected by his peers for his unique, powerful surfing style. In 2009, Gary was inducted into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame.
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Until his retirement from the Pro Tour in at the conclusion of the 1996 season, Elkerton was considered a perennial favourite to win contests in large or powerful waves. His final Tour highlight was at Grajagan in ’96. He beat rising super star Kelly Slater in the semi-final by scoring a perfect ten point ride.
Facts & Trivia
Marcelo Ranked on the list of most popular Surfer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Gary Elkerton celebrates birthday on August 21 of every year.
Elkerton joined the local boardriders club – North Shore Boardriders – and was soon making an impression in contests with his unusually powerful technique. High School was routinely skipped in favour of surfing. Eventually, he was suspended from Maroochydore High School for inveterate truancy, upon which Keith Elkerton insisted that his fourteen-year-old son commence full-time work as a deckhand aboard the trawler. Gary spent the next two and half years diving from the trawler deck and surfing alone on the shark-infested, remote open ocean waves of the Great Barrier Reef and Queensland’s isolated off-shore sand islands. By 1980, he had achieved significant success as a competitive junior surfer during his breaks from the trawler, so much so that he won his first of several Queensland Titles. Encouraged by sponsorships from emerging surf labels Quiksilver and Rip Curl, and acknowledging his less than dedicated performance as a prawn trawlerman; the Elkertons decided that Gary ought to pursue a career as a surfer, rather than remain in the family business.
Top Facts about Gary Elkerton
- Gary Elkerton is an Australian professional surfer.
- He was born on January 14, 1966 in Tweed Heads, Australia.
- Elkerton won the ASP World Tour event four times.
- He was known for his powerful and aggressive surfing style.
- Elkerton was inducted into the Surfing Walk of Fame in 2000.
- He retired from professional surfing in 2001 at age 35.
- Elkerton has been a commentator for surf events since retiring.
- He has also worked as a surfboard shaper and designer.
- Elkerton is considered one of the greatest surfers of all time.
- His nickname is “Kong” due to his physical strength and size.