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Current season, competition or edition: Corona Open J-Bay 2023 | |
Sport | Surfing |
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Country | South Africa |
Most recent champion(s) | Filipe Toledo (men) Lakey Peterson (women) |
Most titles | Kelly Slater and Mick Fanning (men) (4 titles) Tatiana Weston-Webb (women) (1 title) |
Official website | Hurley Pro Sunset Beach |
J-Bay Open a.k.a. Billabong Pro Jeffreys Bay is an event on the World Surf League. The event is held every year at Jeffreys Bay in Eastern Cape, South Africa. Inaugural winner Kelly Slater, and Mick Fanning share the most victories with 4. [1]
Since the birth of this competition it had different names.
Sir Alec John Jeffreys, is a British geneticist known for developing techniques for genetic fingerprinting and DNA profiling which are now used worldwide in forensic science to assist police detective work and to resolve paternity and immigration disputes. He is Professor of Genetics at the University of Leicester, and became an honorary freeman of the City of Leicester on 26 November 1992. In 1994, he was knighted for services to genetics.
Robert Kelly Slater is an American professional surfer, best known for being crowned World Surf League champion a record 11 times. Slater is widely regarded as the greatest professional surfer of all time, and holds 56 Championship Tour victories. Slater is also the oldest surfer still active on the World Surf League, winning his 8th Billabong Pipeline Masters title at age 49.
Baron Jeffreys is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. The first creation came in the Peerage of England on 16 May 1685 when the lawyer and later Lord Chancellor, Sir George Jeffreys, 1st Baronet, was made Baron Jeffreys, of Wem. He had already been created a Baronet, of Bulstrode in the County of Buckingham, in the Baronetage of England in 1681. The titles became extinct on the death of his son, the second Baron, in 1702, who had no male heir: his daughter, the writer Henrietta Fermor, married the 1st Earl of Pomfret. The estates passed to Jeffreys's widow, Lady Charlotte Herbert, who later remarried as Viscountess Windsor.
Jeffreys Bay is a town of 27,107 inhabitants as of the 2011 census in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It Is the seat of the Kouga municipality and is famous amongst surfers as a surf capital due to the right-hand point break at Supertubes Beach. The town is situated just off the N2 Highway, about 75 kilometres southwest of Port Elizabeth.
Garland Jeffreys is an American singer and songwriter in rock and roll, reggae, blues, and soul music.
Sheila Jeffreys is a former professor of political science at the University of Melbourne, born in England. A lesbian feminist scholar, she analyses the history and politics of human sexuality.
Michael Eugene Fanning is an Australian professional surfer who was crowned champion of the Association of Surfing Professionals/World Surf League (ASP/WSL)'s World Tour in 2007, 2009 and 2013. In 2015, he survived a shark attack by what is suspected to be a great white shark during the J-Bay Open finals in Jeffreys Bay.
Events from the year 1685 in England. This year sees a change of monarch.
Kouga Municipality is a local municipality in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, approximately 80 km west of Gqebera. It forms part of the Sarah Baartman District Municipality. Its territory includes the coastal zone between the Van Stadens River in the east and the Tsitsikamma River in the west, and stretches inland towards the Baviaanskloof Mountains in the north.
Wilhelm Rudolf Mann was a German factory manager for IG Farben and later with Bayer.
Aston Bay is a suburb of Jeffreys Bay in Sarah Baartman District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It incorporates Marina Martinique, a large residential marina.
Sylvia Jeffreys is an Australian journalist and television presenter.
Somebody's Daughter is the third studio album by Australian country singer Gina Jeffreys. It was released in June 1998 and became Jeffreys' second top twenty album after it debuted at No.13 It was certified Gold in Australia.
The J-Bay Open 2015 was an event of the World Surf League Championship Tour.
Surfing in South Africa began in Durban in the 1940s.
The J-Bay Open 2016 was an event of the Association of Surfing Professionals for 2016 World Surf League.
The J-Bay Open 2017 was an event of the Association of Surfing Professionals for 2017 World Surf League.
The Corona Open J-Bay 2019 was the sixth event of the Men's Championship Tour in the 2019 World Surf League. It took place from 9 to 19 July at Jeffreys Bay in Eastern Cape, South Africa, and was contested by 36 surfers.
The Jeffrey’s Bay Wind Energy Facility is a wind farm in the Kouga Local Municipality, built between Jeffrey’s Bay and Humansdorp, in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.