Tas Pappas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tas Pappas
Occupation	Skateboarder
Date Of Birth	Feb 9, 1975(1975-02-09)
Age	49
Birthplace	Melbourne
Country	Australia
Birth City	Victoria
Horoscope	Aquarius

Tas Pappas Biography

Tas Pappas is one of the most popular and richest Skateboarder who was born on February 9, 1975 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Pappas is a native of Melbourne, Victoria and grew in the suburb of St Albans, located in the north-western part that is St Albans. He and his brother Ben were the sole kids of a Greek-Australian dad who was employed by an accounting firm, as well as an Australian mother who worked as a catering professional. The parents split up after they married in the early years of their marriage.

Pappas took home his 1995 World Championships skateboard contest over Tony Hawk that led to his number one ranking in the world. He won after sustaining a fractured rib during the contest. Pappas said his reaction felt “humbled” soon afterward, when he injured his back. The Pappas brothers discovered that they were not able to get a foothold in the American skateboard industry because of their behavior, which was thought to be aggressive and wild. Australian filmmaker Eddie Martin, who knew the Pappas brothers as teens who skated at the Prahran skating park said that in the year 2014 “They’re [Pappas brothers] very Australian characters. They were so raw and full of passion. They just went over there and stuck it to them. It just didn’t go down very well.”

1991 – Australian Amateur titles in late 1991 at Darling Harbour
1993 – Pappas’ first US competition in Tampa, Florida
1994 – 7 August Pappas competed in Munster Monster Mastership Germany, coming 4th
1995 – Triple crown in Las Vegas
1995 – Came 3rd in Slam City Jam vert competition
1996 – Came 3rd in X Games after Andy MacDonald (1) and Tony Hawk (2) – Providence & Newport, Rhode Island
1996 – Tas won 1996 Triple Crown finals, in which Pappas edged past Tony Hawk after one amazing run.
1996 – Tas #1 ranked Vert skateboarder worldwide
1997 – Vancouver Slam City Jam, coming 10th
1997 – Pappas finishes 44th in World Cup of Skateboarding
1997 – Pappas Wins LG competition in Las Vegas
1997 or 98 – Demo in Switzerland
1998 – Pappas finishes 39th in World Cup of Skateboarding
1998 – Pappas comes twelfth in B3 Vert, Beaverton, Oregon
1999 – May – Pappas finishes in 22nd position in Vancouver Slam City Jam
1999 – June – Pappas finishes 8th in Vans Hardcore Triple Crown in Milwaukee
1999 – July – Pappas finishes 7th in Radlands in Northampton UK
1999 – 9–11 July Pappas came 2nd in Munster Monster Mastership Germany
1999 – 16–18 July Pappas comes 2nd in Prague
1999 – 28 August – Pappas comes 1st in vert competition at the B3 in Beaverton, Oregon
2001 – (17–22 August 2001) Pappas comes 3rd in X-Games in Philadelphia
2003 – Cincinnati
2003 – Pomona – Pappas gets injured from Vert ramp fall
2003 – Washington
2003 – 11–13 July Armegeddon Cup Skateboarding Event Birmingham, UK – Pappas comes 2nd
2004 – Beijing LG tour
2004 – Cincinnati
2004 – Dulles, VA
2004 – Pomona
2004 – Sacramento
2004 – Shanghai LG tour
2004 – Cleveland, OH – Summer Gravity Games (15-19 Sept.) Tas (6th in Vert, 5th in Vert Best Trick)
2005 – Cincinnati
2005 – Manchester
2005 – Moscow
2005 – Pomona, CA
2005 – Sacramento ASA
2006 – Birmingham, UK
2006 – Amsterdam
2006 – Berlin
2006 – Dallas (Pappas won)
2006 – Paris
2006 – Richmond
2006 – San Diego
2006 – Amsterdam (Pappas came in 1st place in LG Action Sports World Tour competition)
2006 – Birmingham, UK (Pappas came in 3rd place in LG Action Sports World Tour competition)
2006 – Dallas – (Pappas came in 1st place in LG Action Sports World Tour competition)
2006 – Richmond – (Pappas came in 2nd place in LG Action Sports World Tour competition)
2006 – San Diego – (Pappas came in ? place in LG Action Sports World Tour competition)
2006 – Portland – Dew Action Sports Tour Vans Invitational – Pappas finishes in 9th position
2006 – Orlando – Dew Tour – Pappas comes 2nd in Vert competition
2007 or 2008 – Pappas at Globe World Cup in Melbourne, Australia

In 2005, Pappas married Colleen, an American he met through skateboarding. They lived in San Diego with their two children. However, due to financial difficulties, the relationship was strained and Pappas began using crystal methamphetamine, to numb the pain from injuries during contests that he desperately participated in to earn money. Additionally, Pappas was prescribed an antidepressant after he consulted a doctor for help with a low emotional state caused by his life situation—Pappas proceeded to use alcohol and cocaine with the medication.

The year 1996 was the time that Pappas took home both the titles and crowns at the Hard Rock Cafe Skateboarding World Championships (the finals event in addition to points for the whole year) He beat Tony Hawk. Then, Pappas suffered a number of serious injuries. He could not compete or keep up the pace at which he was skating prior to the accident. In 1999, following his physical rehabilitation of his injuries Pappas scored high in a series of competitions which included his participation in the X Games and the Milwaukee Triple Crown.

Tas Pappas Net Worth

Tas Pappas is one of the richest Skateboarder from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tas Pappas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Tasou Micah Tasou Micah (born 1975) is better known as Tas Pappas is an Australian sponsored skateboarder. He previously was a professional skateboarder, with a focus on the sport of vert skating and participated in several major international competitions. In the 1990s the Pappas brothers Ben and Jeremy was a highly-regarded skateboarder globally and climbed to the top two positions on the global rankings.

In a commercial from 1994 for the now defunct Mad Circle skateboard deck company, an scan of Pappas’ femur, complete with metal plates and screws is shown with the tagline: “Tas Pappas, Mad Circle’s Answer to the Bionic Man.” Pappas was then portrayed alongside Moses Itkonen, Edward Devera, Mike Cao, Justin Girard and Scott Johnston in the 1996 Mad Circle video Let The Horns Blow.

In 1999, Pappas’ brother Ben was intercepted by law enforcement while attempting to smuggle cocaine into Australia and, in addition to a prison term, his passport was confiscated for a three-year period and he was unable to continue his skateboarding career in the US.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Tas Pappas Dating?

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Following Pappas’s success with the Hard Rock Cafe competition, both he and his brother were credited with helping to revive the popularity of vert skateboarding, which was beginning to fade. In August 2011, Tas and Ben Pappas both received the number 10 ranking in Transworld Skateboarding’s “10 Infamous Australians” article for “rekindl[ing] vert’s flickering candle” during the 1990s.

Facts & Trivia

Tas Ranked on the list of most popular Skateboarder. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Tas Pappas celebrates birthday on February 9 of every year.

In November 2011, Pappas was afforded the privilege of prison day-release on weekends and used this time to skate the vert ramp in Albury, New South Wales. In December 2011, after internet blogs reported Pappas’ Albury visits, SLAM Skateboarding Magazine ran a feature on Pappas and suggested that, at the time, he remained one of the most highly skilled skateboarders in Australia. The video footage that SLAM published to coincide with the article revealed that the session was Pappas’ “third skate in 3 years” due to his incarceration—the video was filmed by Stewart.