Farrelly’s death was reported by Surfing Australia, the country’s surfing organization, which did not say where he had died. PhotoBernard Farrelly, a pioneering Australian surfboarder who won the sport’s first world championship, in 1964, died on Saturday. “Does the beach take dope, do the waves take dope, do the sea gulls take dope?” he wrote in Surfing World. Then, in 1964, Farrelly won the first official championship, at Manly Beach in Sydney, Australia. But he had also been an outsider in the surfing world.

Source: International New York Times August 10, 2016 19:01 UTC