Mark Occhilupo "2000 Surf Champion"
Mr. Comeback
PHOTO: Courtesy Don King
No surfing champion has ever had the comeback story as that of Mark Occhilupo. From Australia in the early eighties, he had back to back dynamic wins of the O.P. Pro in Huntington Beach in 1985 and 1986. When the world title eluded Occhy he disappeared from the competitive scene to re-emerge in the mid nineties and become ASP World Champ in 1999.
Richard 1994
Curren 1995
Young 1996
Tomson 1997
Townend 1998
Carroll 1999
Occhilupo 2000
Bartholomew 2001
Slater 2002
Potter 2003
Carroll 2004
Nuuhiwa 2005
Richards 2006
Farrelly 2007
Martinson 2009
Irons 2008
Cairns 2010
Garcia 2010
Machado 2011
Ho 2012
Knox 2013
Bertlemann 2014
Abellira 2015
Hobgood 2016
Lynch 2017
Fanning 2018
Tudor 2019
Derek Ho 2019
Hardman 2021
Simpson 2022
Horan 2023