News Flash
10.01.05
Ben Dunn shows true champion qualities to win
the Globe Jetty Surf Pro in one of surfings
memorable battles!
15.10.04
Ben Dunn wins Hot Buttered/OE Pro Junior.
10.10.04
Ben signs
with Red Bull
10.01.04
Ben Dunn re-signs with rip curl.
5.12.0
3 Ben
Dunn win's Australian Titles
03.10.03 Ben Dunn wins
Billabong Pro Teen Series event at Bells Beach
and takes out Billabong Pro teen Series.
08.08.03
Ben Dunn signs with Scheky Accessories
24.08.03
Ben Dunn wins World Junior Championships
Athlete History
Ben was introduced to the ocean
by his father on the beautiful beaches of Old
Bar on the mid north coast of NSW. Ben’s
father Martin Dunn has been involved in the
surfing industry for the past 20 years and is
widely regarded as one of the world’s
top surfing coaches.
 Ben
has utilized his father's knowledge and his
incredible natural talent to develop into one
of the world's great future talents. He has
had the opportunity to spend his younger years
watching and learning from some of the world's
best surfers that have stayed at his house.
Regarded as one of the hottest
and most naturally talented junior surfers in
the world, Ben has always been able to back
up this ability with outstanding results. Fluent
and fast, Ben boasts one of the cleanest styles
in the world junior ranks and a competitive
record second to none. Ben has won the U/18
Australian Title in Western Australia beating
Australia’s top junior surfers. He won
the 2001 World U/16 Junior Title in Sydney,
he has also won countless cadet pro junior events
and has been consistently placed in final rounds
of pro junior events.
Surfing against his older and
more experienced competitors in the Billabong
Pro Junior Series, Ben finished the 2002 season
in 11th place. This is an amazing achievement
as the Pro Junior Series is an under 20 years
of age tour and Ben was only sixteen years of
age.
This year Ben has come of age
and has absolutely blitzed his competition.
In the final of the Balin Pro Ben’s competitors
needed a combination of scores to win. Ben finished
the final with a radical new age airial and
took home his first Pro Junior win. Ben finished
the Australain junior ratings in 2nd place only
300 points behind the winner. Ben went out on
a high by winning the last event of the year
the Billabong Pro junior at Bells Beach. His
win was made even more special by the fact that
he still has three years left in the junior
series and he was surfing with a plaster cast
due to a broken wrist. Ben’s brilliant
victory also saw him win the Billabong Junior
Series. The winner of the Billabong series is
decided from the 5 Billabong series events held
throughout the year.
In late August this year Ben proved
to the surfing world that he is the best junior
in the world and won the U/18 Quiksilver ISA
World Junior surfing Championships in Durban,
South Africa.
In a closely contested final, Australia’s
top seed showed great m aturity
to clench victory in the dieing minutes. Waiting
nearly 10 minutes, Ben’s first ride was
a lefthander through the bowl that connected
with the inside section, for a solid 7.10 points.
He then backed that up five minutes later with
a 5.50 that left him within 6.50 points of the
lead, which had been held by the two Brazilians,
William Cardoso and Leandro Bastos, who had
five rides each by that stage.
In early October Ben stamped himself
as one of the best 17-year-old surfers in the
world with an emphatic victory at the Billabong
Pro-Teen Series event held at Bells Beach. Ben’s
win sore him finish the ratings in second place
only 300 points behind Daniel Ross.
His win was made even more special
by the fact that he still has three years left
in the junior series and he was surfing with
a plaster cast due to a broken wrist. A five
thousand dollar cheque from events sponsors
Billabong should help ease the pain. Dunn defeated
last year’s Australasian circuit winner
and defending event champion Luke Munro (Gold
Coast), Nick Coghlan (Manly) and Shaun Cansdell
(Mullaway, NSW).
Ben’s brilliant victory also saw him win
the Billabong Junior Series. The winner of the
Billabong series is decided from the 5 Billabong
series events held throughout the year.
 On
Friday December 5th, 2003 (Nth Stradbroke Island,
QLD) Ben capped off his final year as a junior
in a sensational way with another victory in
the Quiksilver Australian Grommet Titles. The
win gives Dunn an unprecedented winning record
of 3 national and 1 world junior titles.
Ben had a brilliant year in 2004
on both the Junior series and the WQS. On the
junior series Ben finished 2nd after a closley
fought battle at the Billabong Pro Teen at Bells
Beach capping off a monumental three way showdown
that emerged between Leigh Sedley, Ryan Campbell
and Ben.
The three competitors were first,
second and third respectively on the ratings
leading into the event and were all vying for
the prestigious title of ASP Australasian Junior
Champion for 2004.
With Ryan narrowly defeated by
Joe Haddon (Forster) and Travis Lynch(Merewether)
in the quarter finals it ultimately came down
to Leigh and Ben in the 25 minute final decider
to battle it out for the title. Leigh struggled
in the final however failure of Ben to secure
a win in the match handed Leigh the coveted
title.
Ben also surfed in his first
WCT event, the Rip Curl Pro, which he finished
17th after beating Kireen Perrow in Rd 2. On
the WQS Ben impressed all his peers consistently
making it to the final rounds of competition
to finish the year in 132nd.
Ben has had a fantastic start
to the 2005 Junior ratings. He is currently
in first position on the junior ratings after
winning the Jetty surf Pro and is lookig strong
to attain his goal of the 2005 ASP junior rating
crown.
Ben is destined to reach the top
echelon of surfing. His commitment and dedication
to achieve his goals are that of a far more
mature aged athlete. In the not too distant
future Ben Dunn will be a major contender for
the World Surfing Crown.
Personal Particulars
- Sponsors:
Rip Curl, Dahlberg Surfboards, Scheky.
- Local break:
Saltwater Point, Old Bar beaches and Wallaby
Reef.
- Ambition:
Make the top 44, then the top 10, then win
the World Title.
- Hobbies: Golf,
fishing, skating.
- Favourite video:
Loose Change
- Favourite music:
Unwritten Law
- Age: 17(January
8, 1986)
- Nickname:
dunne
- Home: Old
Bar, New South Wales
- Local break:
Saltwater Point
- Occupation:
Professional surfer
- Place of Birth:
Maclean, NSW, Australia
- Height: 5’11
- Weight: 70kg
- Stance: Natural
- Trademark moves:
cutback
- Training: Coaching
with Martin Dunn
- Favourite Food:
Chicken
- Favourite Music:
Foo Fighters
- Other Interests:
Golf, Tennis
- Years Surfing:
11
- Years Competing:
5
- Eye Colour:
Hazel
- Hair Colour:Light
Brown
- Shoe Size:
10
Pland and Goals 2005
- Compete in all Australian
pro junior events and win the 2005 junior
ratings.
- Compete in selected
WQS events and make top 100 WQS rating.Including
Australia, America, Europe and Japan.
- Do two international
promo/photo trips.
- Compete in the 2005
Rip Curl Pro, WCT and better 2004 position
of 3rd round.
- Go to Hawaii at the
end of the year and compete in WQS events.
Career Highlights
- 1st Place, Jetty Surf,
Pro Junior. 2005.
- 2nd place 2004 ASP
Australian Junior Ratings.
- 1st Place, Ocean Earth/Hot
Buttered Pro Junior. 2004.
- Compete in Rip Curl
Pro, WCT. Bells Beach.2004.
- 1st Place 2003 Australian
Titles.
- 1st Place, 2003
ISA Quiksilver World Junior Title.
- 2ND place, 2003 Australian
Junior Ratings
- 1st Place Balin Pro
Junior, Gunamatta, 2003.
- 1st Place World Grommet
Titles Under 16 2001
- Awarded 2002 Sportsman
Of the year by the Greater Taree City Council.
- Nominated Sports Star
of the year for Manning Valley 2003.
- 1st – Australian
Junior Titles (Under 18)- Western Australia
2002
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