“One guy dropped in on me, I got him by his wetsuit and pushed him into the rocks.”
Phyllis O’Donnell was Australia’s first female surfing world champion, claiming victory in the 1964 world titles, alongside Midget Farrelly, at Manly. Phyllis was also one of surfing’s most endearing characters. She travelled the world in pursuit of waves, visited Hawaii 18 times and loved to surf Sunset.
With Snowy’s coaxing, Phyllis became a regular down at Manly beach, and by the time she was 27, she had won the 1964 World Surfing Championships, alongside Midge Farrelly.Advertisement And so Phyllis O’Donnell, for whom surfing was a kind of dance, became Australia’s first female world champ, and her prize, as she loves to tell, was a carton of Craven A cigarettes. “And I smoked ’em all!” she declares with a chuckle.
The women’s world surfboard champion, 27-year-old Phyllis O’Donnell, prepares to represent Australia in the International Surf-board championships in Honolulu, 1964.“I can’t believe I used to carry a whole tray of middies, of spirits and beer, holding it above my head!” “On the beach at D-Bah in January 1971, upon my return from Europe, I attended a contest where the men and the boys were out with the good surf and the women were left to the poor surf.
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