Talk:Guilherme Tâmega

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Tâmega's Timeline

1985 – Was given his first bodyboard, and went to his first championship finals.
1986 – Was already a fierce competitor and had a good set of sponsors (bodyboarding was "the sport" of fashion in Brazil in 1986).
1987 – Won praise from the specialized Brazilian media; speculation that he could be a future world champion.
1988 – First Hawaiian winter; Brazilian amateur champion.
1989 – Went pro and took part in his first international final in Australia. First trip to Bali and its tubes. Won the Brazilian national tour for the first time.
1990 – Broke his leg while skateboarding, keeping him away from bodyboarding for five months. Started to commercialize his own board brand.
1991 – First time at the famous pipe event, went to the finals. Two-time Brazilian pro champion.
1992 – Third place at the pipe event. Three-time Brazilian champion.
1993 – Second place at the pipe event. First international sponsoring deal with Wave Rebel. Four-time national champion.
1994 – World champion at the pipe event in sick, 12 to 15 feet waves. Five-time national champion.
1995 – Won the first event of the first world tour ever (GOB - Global Organization of Bodyboarders) and went on to won the world title.
1996 – Three-time world champion. He led the tour from the beginning and was also the American (North American) champion and the ISA Surfing Games champion.
1997 – Four-time world champion. Pan-American champion. Vice-champion at the pipe event
1998 – Second place at the world tour. Lost by 72 points to a very young Andre Botha.
1999 – Second place at the world tour again (to Andre Botha).
2000 – Fifth place at the world tour (his worst ranking position ever). Won the ISA again. Six-time national champion. His friend, Paulo Barcellos, won the world title.
2001 – Won both world tours (GQT and GST). Won the pipe event.
2002 - Six-time world champion. Won the Human Shark Island Challenge for the first time.
2003 - Lost the world title to Damian King. Won the Human Shark Island Challenge for the second time.
2004 - Lost the world title to Damian King again in the final of the last event. Won the Human Shark Island Challenge for the third time in a row. Also met up and coming grom Jono Cain at Shark Island Challenge.

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