Jason Polakow (born 10 November 1971 in Torquay, Victoria) is an Australian professional windsurfer from Victoria.[1] He founded the watersports company JP Australia and [2] was the first windsurfer to ride big wave of Nazare, in Portugal.[3] Polakow gained notoriety in 1991 when we won the Marui/O’Neill World Cup Grand Slam contest against Robby Naish becoming the first non-Hawaiian ever to win a World Cup Wave contest in Hawaii. [4] Polakow won the PWA World Tour wave world title in 1997 and 1998.[5][6]
References
edit- ^ "PWA Athletes". PWA World Tour.
- ^ "Jason Polakow". JP Australia. 2019.
- ^ "Jason Polakow is the first windsurfer to ride Nazare". IFCA. 2016.
- ^ "Jason Polakow". JP Australia. 2009.
- ^ "A short history of the PWA World Tour". Surfertoday.
- ^ "PWA WORLD WINDSURFING TOUR: Athletes".