Australian pro-surfer Joel Parkinson has announced this will be his last year on surfing’s world tour, making the announcement in a post on Instagram earlier today.
The 2012 world champion and Tweed Heads local will retire at the conclusion of the Pipe Masters event in Hawaii in December, 19-years after winning his first world tour event at Jeffreys Bay.
Parkinson, who won Newcastle’s Surfest event in 2013, has claimed 11 world tour event wins as well as finished as runner up on the world tour on four occasions.
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