2003 ASP World Tour
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The ASP World Tour is a professional competitive surfing
Surfing
Surfing' is a surface water sport in which the surfer rides a surfboard on the crest and face of a wave which is carrying the surfer towards the shore...

 league. It is run by the Association of Surfing Professionals
Association of Surfing Professionals
The Association of Surfing Professionals is the governing body for professional surfers and is dedicated to showcasing the world’s best talent in a variety of progressive formats.- Predecessors to the ASP :...

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Tournaments

Date Location Country Event Winner Runner-up Ref
March 4-March 16 Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

Quiksilver Pro
Quiksilver Pro
Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast is an event on the ASP World Surfing Tour. The event is held every year at Coolangatta in Queensland, Australia.- Results :...

Report
April 16-April 26 Bells Beach
Bells Beach
Bells Beach is a coastal locality of Victoria, Australia in Surf Coast Shire and a renowned surf beach, located 100 km south-west of Melbourne, on the Great Ocean Road near the towns of Torquay and Jan Juc....

Rip Curl Pro
Rip Curl Pro
Formerly the Bells Beach Surf Classic, The Rip Curl Pro is an ASP World Tour surfing competition held in and around Torquay, Victoria. The event is based at Bells Beach, Victoria, Australia...

Report
May 6-May 18 Teahupoo, Tahiti
Tahiti
Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...

Billabong Pro Report
May 26-June 4 Tavarua
Tavarua
Tavarua is a heart shaped island in Fiji. It has an area of . The island is close to the main Fijian isand, Viti Levu, and is surrounded by a coral reef....

Quiksiver Pro Report
June 18-June 29 Niijima Island Quiksilver Pro
Quiksilver Pro
Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast is an event on the ASP World Surfing Tour. The event is held every year at Coolangatta in Queensland, Australia.- Results :...

Report
July 15-July 25 Jeffreys Bay
Jeffreys Bay
Jeffreys Bay is a town located in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town is situated just off the N2 Highway, about an hour's drive southwest of Port Elizabeth.- History :...

Billabong Pro Report
September 4-September 13 Trestles
Trestles
Trestles is a collection of surfing spots at San Onofre State Beach in San Diego County, California. Trestles consists of, from north to south, Upper Trestles , Lower Trestles , and Middle Trestles . North of Upper Trestles is the surf spot called Cottons...

Boost Mobile Pro Report
September 30-October 11 Hossegor Quiksilver Pro
Quiksilver Pro
Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast is an event on the ASP World Surfing Tour. The event is held every year at Coolangatta in Queensland, Australia.- Results :...

Report
October 12-October 24 Mundaka
Mundaka
Mundaka is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. On the coast, Mundaka is internationally-renowned for its surfing scene....

Billabong Pro Report
October 27-November 4 Santa Catarina
Santa Catarina (state)
Santa Catarina is a state in southern Brazil with one of the highest standards of living in Latin America. Its capital is Florianópolis, which mostly lies on the Santa Catarina Island. Neighbouring states are Rio Grande do Sul to the south and Paraná to the north. It is bounded on the east by...

Nova Schin Festival Report
November 24-December 7 Sunset Beach
Sunset Beach
- United States :* Sunset Beach , in Cape May, New Jersey* Sunset Beach , in Pupukea, Oahu, Hawaii* Sunset Beach State Recreation Site, in Oregon* Sunset State Beach, near Watsonville, California- Canada :* Sunset Beach, Alberta...

, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

Rip Curl Cup Report
December 8-December 20 Pipeline
Banzai Pipeline
The Banzai Pipeline, or simply "Pipeline" or "Pipe," is a surf reef break located in Hawaii, off Ehukai Beach Park in Pupukea on O'ahu's North Shore. A reef break is an area in the ocean where waves start to break once they reach the shallows of a reef...

, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

X-Box Pipeline Masters Report
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Final Standings

Rank Name Country Points
1 Andy Irons
Andy Irons
Philip Andrew "Andy" Irons was a professional surfer. Irons learned to surf on the dangerous and shallow reefs of the North Shore in Kauai, Hawaii...

 Hawaii 8,964
2 Kelly Slater
Kelly Slater
Robert Kelly Slater is an American professional surfer known for his competitive prowess and style. He has been crowned ASP World Champion a record 11 times, including 5 consecutive titles from 1994–98. He is the youngest and the oldest to win the title...

8,544
3 Taj Burrow
Taj Burrow
Taj Burrow is an Australian professional surfer who is currently competing in this 14th year on the ASP World Tour.-Career:...

7,344
4 Mick Fanning
Mick Fanning
Michael Eugene "Mick" Fanning, nicknamed "White Lightning", is an Australian professional surfer and dual world champion. Fanning won both the 2007 and 2009 ASP World Tour.-Early years:...

7,080
5 Joel Parkinson
Joel Parkinson
Joel Parkinson is an Australian surfer who competes on the ASP World Tour. Known as Parko, he grew up on the Gold Coast with fellow surfer Mick Fanning...

6,972
6 Kieren Perrow 6,480
7 Taylor Knox
Taylor Knox
Taylor Knox is an American professional surfer. He is currently competing on the ASP World Tour.Knox was born in Thousand Oaks, California and began surfing at 8 years old. He moved with his family to Carlsbad at 13 and continued to pursue his dream of becoming a pro surfer...

6,000
8 Michael Lowe 5,820
9 Cory Lopez
Cory Lopez
Cory Lopez is a professional surfer born on March 21, 1977 in Dunedin, Florida, USA. Lopey and Coreman are his nicknames on the professional circuit.-Career:...

5,814
10 Dean Morrison 5,778
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Tournaments

Date Location Country Event Winner Runner-up Ref
March 4-March 16 Gold Coast
Gold Coast, Queensland
Gold Coast is a coastal city of Australia located in South East Queensland, 94km south of the state capital Brisbane. With a population approximately 540,000 in 2010, it is the second most populous city in the state, the sixth most populous city in the country, and also the most populous...

Roxy Pro Report
April 27-May 3 Tavarua
Tavarua
Tavarua is a heart shaped island in Fiji. It has an area of . The island is close to the main Fijian isand, Viti Levu, and is surrounded by a coral reef....

Roxy Pro Fiji Report
May 6-May 18 Teahupoo, Tahiti
Tahiti
Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...

Billabong Pro Tahiti Report
September 30-October 11 South West Coast Roxy Pro Report
December 8-December 20 Honolua Bay, Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii is the newest of the 50 U.S. states , and is the only U.S. state made up entirely of islands. It is the northernmost island group in Polynesia, occupying most of an archipelago in the central Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of...

Billabong Pro Report
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Final Standings

Rank Name Country Points
1 Layne Beachley
Layne Beachley
Layne Beachley is a former professional surfer from Manly, Australia. She won the World Championship seven times.-Surfing career:At the age of 16 Beachley became a professional surfer. By the age of 20 she was ranked sixth in the world. Beachley became the Women's ASP World Champion in 1998, and...

3,696
2 Keala Kennelly
Keala Kennelly
Keala Kennelly is a professional surfer. She was featured playing herself in the movie Blue Crush. She was also in the movie Step Into Liquid.She set a record in 2005 at Teahupoo, riding the biggest tow in wave by a woman....

 Hawaii 3,516
3 Heather Clark
Heather Clark
Heather Clark is a writer for Associated Press working out of its bureau in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She normally covers issues concerning the Rocky Mountain region of the United States, such as Los Alamos National Laboratory and New Mexico elections for a national audience.Clark came to some...

3,240
4 Chelsea Georgeson
Chelsea Georgeson
Chelsea Georgeson is an Australian surfer who won the world title in 2005. She won the title after beating Brazil's Jacqueline Silva in the final at the season-ending event at Honolulu Bay, Hawaii. She started surfing at the age of 13. -References:* , ABC News Online. 17 December 2005...

3,060
5 Samantha Cornish
Samantha Cornish
Samantha Cornish is a professional surfer from New South Wales, Australia. She began surfing at an early age and entered her first competition at the age of 11. Her father, Peter Cornish, was also a pro surfer. At the age of 15 she won the 1996 World Junior Championships and was named the Young...

2,664
6 Trudy Todd 2,436
7 Sofía Mulánovich
Sofia Mulanovich
Sofía Mulánovich Aljovín is a Peruvian surfer. She is the first Peruvian surfer ever to win an Association of Surfing Professionals World Championship Tour event. She is the first South American ever to win the World Title. In 2004, she won three out of the six World Championship Tour events, and...

2,424
8 Lynette MacKenzie 2,220
9 Rochelle Ballard
Rochelle Ballard
Rochelle Ballard is a professional female surfer who is a 10 year veteran the Association of Surfing Professional’s World Championship Tour. She is considered the best female tube rider in the world and has been a pioneer to the advancement of women’s surfing in the past two decades...

 Hawaii 2,052
10 Jacqueline Silva
Jacqueline Silva
Jacqueline Silva is a professional surfer from Florianopolis, Brazil. She is considered to be a pioneer in women's Brazilian surfing and has garnered the best results from someone from Brazil, male or female. She began at a time when there were no female categories in Brazilian surfing championships...

2,028
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