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The same week a speciality Big Wave contest was held at Villa Beach, won by Australian surfer, Bob Pike.

Correcting the previous entry, Felipe Pomar emailed in January 2010:
I was enjoying your site when I came across a mistake .
You site shows Bob Pike from Au. as the winner of the Peruvian International 1962 Big Wave event.
Bob was my friend,and a great big wave surfer.
And he did win that event that year at Villa beach.
That event however was a specialty event.
The Peru International Big wave event was held that same week at the Kon Tiki Surf spot.
The winner of the Peru International Big Wave Contest in the year 1962 was  Felipe Pomar.
Sorry to point out a mistake in your site.
Hopefully you can correct that .
Many thanks to Felipe for this contribution.

1964 World Tittles Awards, Many Beach, 17 th May.
Top : Mike Doyle - Midget Farrelly - Joey Cabell
Left : Wayne Cowper - Robert Conneely - Nat Young
Right : Phyllis O’Donell - Linda Benson
Photograph by Ron Perrott
Nat's History, page 96.

According to the ..... Midget Farrelly won the small wave event.

The contest was filmed by Bob Evans for XXX?? (196?) and some of the footage was used in his 1968 retrospective, Ride a White Horse, released on DVD in 2009.

The results above are collated from the following extracts from:
John Severson: Peru World Contest
Surfer Magazine, May 1965, Volume 6 Number  2, pages18 to 24 .

Page 20
This year the contest was switched from the Kon Tiki beach because Punta Rocas is directly in front of a high cliff- easy to see the break, easy to judge, as well as providing a steeper, more spectacular ride.
There were disadvantages: the tricky, chorros-covered rocks dinged many a board; but the Peruvians provided beach boys who waded over the rocks and retrieved loose boards.

The Peruvians insisted on a big-wave contest- and that's what they got.
Meet Director Eduardo Arena had asked the Peruvian Navy to recommend the best time for big surf at Punta Rocas.
The Navy did- and it was right.

The judging stressed that a surfer, to get the most points, should slide at the greatest speed, the longest possible distance, in the most dangerous part of the longest and highest surf.
In other words, the judges wanted the best possible performance in the biggest and most critical waves.
...
California with its 22-man team was an early favorite to place a few men high, if only because of numbers.
Hawaii's big-wave experts were given a good chance in the Punta Rocas boomers, and the Aussies were strong with such stars as defending champion FarrreIly, Nat Young, Queensland Champ Ken Adler and Peter Troy, who had been living in Peru and surfing Rocas for two months.

Page 22
California had the lion's share of contestants moving into the 18-man semi- finals, placing six surfers. Hawaii had five, Peru three, Australia three and South Africa one.
The semi-final field was (adjusted by country):
California-  Mike Doyle, Richard Chew, Danny Lenahan, Robert August, Joey Cabell, Mickey Munoz.
Hawaii-        Buffalo Keaulana, Bobby Cloutier, Paul Strauch, George Downing, Fred Hemmings.
Peru-            Felipe Pomar, Roberto Tode, Hector Velarde.
Australia-    Nat Young, Midget FarreIly, Ken Adler.
Sth Africa-  Anthony Vandenheuve.

In the semi-finals the waves continued to roll, causing Meet Director Arena to comment, "We couldn't have asked for better surf."
Nat Young was one of the hotter semi-finalists, catching 22 waves during his one-hour heat.

Page 23
The win had all the more presige because if the international flavor of the five judges: One Australian, a Hawaiian, a Californian and two Peruvians.
Here's how close the scoring was (adjusted):

Place	Competitor	Country	Scores	Total
1st	Felipe Pomar	Peru	62-71-64-72-74	343
2nd	Nat Young	Australia	61-77-63-71-70	342
3rd	Paul Strauch	Hawaii	61-74-63-69-74	341
4th	Mickey Munoz	California	61-70-59-70-67	327
5th	Fred Hemmings	Hawaii	54-69-65-65-71	324
6th	Mike Doyle	California	58-71-59-66-70	324
7th	George Downing	Hawaii	54-66-62-67-65	314
8th	Ken Adler	Australia	59-66-52-63-65	305

The rest of the surfing program was an anti-climax.
Hot-dogging and the girls' contest were run off at the Waikiki Surf Club at Mira Hores in Lima.
But this was not connected with the official world contest.
There was no competition for juniors.

For the hot-dogging, or habilidad de la playa as the Peruvians called it, the best of an excellent International field was Paul Strauch.
Steve Bigler was a surprise second place and light-footed ...

Page 24
... David Nuuhiwa was third.
Bigler and Nuuhiwa were members of the strong Long Beach Surf Club that turned the Women's competition into an inter-club exhibition.
Makaha winner Joyce Hoffman was first followed by Nancy Nelson and Candy Calhoun.

In other events, Felipe Pomar won the 2,000 meter paddling race with Tony Vandenhueve of South Africa second and Pancho Aramburu of Peru third.
Nat Young actually hit the beach first, but Nat forgot to run up the rocks and touch the finish line flag.
He stood holding his board while the first three finishers stumbled past him.
However, Nat recouped by completely outclassing the field in the four-mile paddle.
In a relay race, a California team of Doyle, Chew, Bigler and Sumpter barely edged out Australia and Peru.
Makaha tandem winner, Mike Doyle, this time teamed  with Linda Merrill, won the tandem competition on a regular surfboard; Jim Graham and Heidi Edwards were second with Hector Velarde and a pretty  Peruvian senorita third.

Contest reports:
John Witzig and Lester Brien : Windansea Invitational Contest, 1967.
SURF INTERNATIONAL Magazine Vol. 1. No. 3 February 1968  pages 20 to 25.

1968 Ian Smith and Jack Sullivan : Windansea Invitational Contest, 1967.
Surfabout Volume 4 Number 4, March 1968, pages 25 to 29.

The contest was filmed and included in Eric Blum's  Fantastic Plastic Machine, released in 1969.
The difficulties in producing the film are detailed by scriptwriter BrianSt. Pierre in his The Plastic Fantastic Voyage- Across the South Pacific with Surfers and a Camera, 1969.

Wayne Lynch - switchfoot reef dance without legrope.
 Alan Oke Conest Final, Blacks Reef, Phillip Island, Victoria.1977
Photograph by Peter Crawford
Surfing World Magazine, Volume 25 Number 3 July 1977, page 62.

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