New goals and priorities on Iain Campbell’s life.
South African Iain Campbell, age 32, former world champion (2017), has moved to the United Kingdom with his wife, Rosie, in May 2023.
For a long time he has been one of the most important figures in the sport and on the world tour with unforgettable wins in Pipe/Hawaii (2020), Itacoatiara/Brazil (2018), Sintra/Portugal (2017), Viana do Castelo/Portugal (2016 and 2017), Arica/Chile (2016).
Surprising everyone and everything, he announce he is quitting the world tour in 2024. In the above video, the South African refers he wants to do more content, more travel, more videos and get to surf more new waves/locations. According to Iain, “this will happen while running my own shop and doing bodyboard coaching in UK.”
Campbell also appoints three main reasons that led him to make this decision: life priorities changed; the current world tour situation (unpaid competitors and prize money being the same from 10 years ago); and the financial part as the whole tour cost about 13.000 euros.
“I have had great success on the world tour over the past few years, but it is time for me to take a step back from it all”, ends up saying.
This is definitely a big loss for the IBC, for the tour and for the world competition, which, remember, had already lost the 5x world champion Isabela Sousa in August due to technical disagreements. xxx
