Lennox Head’s Joel Taylor, 43, has successfully defended his Australian para-surfing title at the 2024 Australian Surfing Championships.
He told The Echo he won on August 8 in clean 2-to-3-foot waves at North Haven, just south of Port Macquarie on the Mid North Coast of NSW.
He says, ‘By winning, I have qualified to represent Australia and the Irukandjis again and can now defend my World Title at the ISA World Para Surfing Championships in Huntington Beach, California, this November’.
‘Until then, my next stop is Oceanside, California, in early September, for the fourth and final event of the world adaptive surfing tour in which I am in the running to win the tour championship in my rookie year’.
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