Italo Ferreira won the 2019 World Championship. He did it with a mix of good old fashioned hard work, perseverance, and surfing so good it doesn’t even look real. If you were watching the finals at Pipeline, you saw a few things: one of the most emotional post-heat interviews ever and Medina’s burn. But dramatics aside, Italo’s sponsor released a quick-hit celebrating his win… and who he is as a person. “With an approach like no other and a permanent, infectious smile, 25-year-old Italo Ferreira is the ultimate people’s champ,” the Billabong team wrote. “His supernatural talent on a surfboard is hard to describe, so we had our team take a crack at it… Congrats, Italo. We are all so stoke-ed.”
