Billy Tennant is a professional
flowboarder from
Durban
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Situated on the east coast of South ...
, South Africa. He has won multiple tour titles and championships in South Africa. He competed on the US National Flow tour is 2007 and got a 2nd at the inaugural world championships in
San Diego
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, CA. He was a member of the 2009/10 SA Team that travelled to
Sentosa
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,
Singapore
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for the IFC World Championships. Billy won the pro division of
bodyboard
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ing (prone) and was declared the (Prone) bodyboarding world champion on the
flowbarrel and came 2nd overall in the IFC Rankings. The SA team won the IFC Team event and were the 2009 world champions. Billy is also the 2009/10 SA Flow Bodyboarding Champion 2008/2009. Billy won the 2011 World FLOW Championships in his home town of Durban, South Africa. He is the reigning 2011 World Champion.
Billy is sponsored by Thiel Board Company,
Rip Curl
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clothing and wetsuits and Reef
Brazil
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Footwear.
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References
The Malibu Flow Championships https://web.archive.org/web/20120227011357/http://www.wavehouse.com/news/ifc-news/malibu-flow-championships-2011-presented-city-durban-sunday-9th-october
External links
Billy Tennant profile on sixty40 Bodyboarding
Living people
South African sportspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
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