Ricardo Campello
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 Ricardo Campello at the Windsurf World Cup Sylt 2009 |
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| Full name | Ricardo Rochebois Campello Alvarez | ||||||||||||||||
| nation |
 Venezuela
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| birthday | July 16, 1985 | ||||||||||||||||
| place of birth |
Rio de Janeiro , Brazil
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| size | 178 cm | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg | ||||||||||||||||
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| Sail number | V-111 (formerly BRA-111) | ||||||||||||||||
| discipline | Wave , Freestyle , Super-X | ||||||||||||||||
| status | active | ||||||||||||||||
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| last change: November 1st, 2019 | |||||||||||||||||
Ricardo Campello (born July 16, 1985 in Rio de Janeiro ) is a Venezuelan windsurfer of Brazilian origin. At the age of 18 he became world champion in freestyle and dominated this discipline in the following years. He became freestyle world champion two more times (2004 and 2005) and invented over 30 new moves. He later switched to the wave discipline and over time became one of the best and most influential drivers. He was runner-up three times ( 2010 , 2011 and 2018 ) and was the first to try the triple loop.
biography
Campello grew up in Rio de Janeiro and started surfing there on the beach where competitions of the World Surf League were already taking place. In 1988 he moved to Isla Margarita ( Venezuela ) with his mother and stepfather , where he started windsurfing . The local windsurfing spot El Yaque is considered the Mecca of freestyle. The multiple freestyle world champion Gollito Estredo and the (former) World Cup drivers Diony Guadagnino and Douglas Diaz , as well as the former freestyle world champion Colette Guadagnino, also come from here . As a result of these influences, he took part in the Windsurf World Cup just three years later and was able to classify himself among the ten best freestyle riders in his first season. During that season he received his first professional contract from JP Australia . He was quickly seen as a “child prodigy” and became vice world champion in 2002 and world champion in the following three years.
Despite his great superiority in freestyle, from then on he concentrated on wave riding. In the 2008 season he reached the top 10 for the first time and in 2010 he was runner-up behind Víctor Fernández López . He was able to repeat this success in 2011 . Despite two more top 5 placements in the next two years, his board sponsor JP Australia and his sailing sponsor Neil Pryde parted ways with him at the beginning of 2014 after working together for 14 years. Henceforth he became a driver for the board brand Patrik and the sailing brand Point-7. Together with Patrik, Campello developed his own wave board, the “campello wave”. In the 2014 season he was able to classify himself again among the top three of the World Cup. In 2017 he announced the separation from his board sponsor Patrik and drove a season without a sponsor. In the coming year he signed another sponsorship contract with Brunotti . He came very close to his goal of becoming wave world champion in the 2018 season . At the Windsurf World Cup Sylt it looked like it at first, but he lost the super final against Thomas Traversa and thus became vice world champion just behind Víctor Fernández López.
For the 2020 season, Campello has signed with the sail and board manufacturer Naish .
Although Campello is considered a friendly driver, he invites all drivers to his birthday, which he often celebrates during the PWA event in Pozo Izquierdo , but is also a very emotional athlete. He is the driver who has been punished most often by the PWA for violating the rules and he says of himself that he is “not a good loser”.
Campello continues to live on Isla Margarita , although his favorite spots are Ponta Preta do Sul near Santa Maria ( Cape Verde ) and on Jawa Barat ( Indonesia ). His favorite move is the cutback .
successes
World Cup ratings
| season | Wave | Freestyle | Super X | |||
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| space | Points | space | Points | space | Points | |
| 2001 | - | - | 9. | 5311 | - | - |
| 2002 | - | - | 2. | 6135 | - | - |
| 2003 | - | - | 1. | 6152 | 4th | 2001 |
| 2004 | - | - | 1. | 6234 | ? | ? |
| 2005 | ? | 2034 | 1. | 4068 | ? | ? |
| 2006 | 12. | 4750 | 6th | 1935 | - | - |
| 2007 | 22nd | 5960 | 4th | 5970 | - | - |
| 2008 | 9. | 5047 | 6th | 5987 | - | - |
| 2009 | 7th | 5311 | - | - | - | - |
| 2010 | 2. | 4068 | 55. | 154 | - | - |
| 2011 | 2. | 6003 | - | - | - | - |
| 2012 | 4th | 6003 | - | - | - | - |
| 2013 | 5. | 5476 | 31. | 1787 | - | - |
| 2014 | 3. | 8021 | 35. | 1721 | - | - |
| 2015 | 5. | 5789 | - | - | - | - |
| 2016 | 13. | 4866 | 50. | 830 | - | - |
| 2017 | 8th. | 2780 | 44. | 620 | - | - |
| 2018 | 2. | 23,035 | 33. | 6,400 | - | - |
| 2019 | 3. | 26,646 | - | - | - | - |
World Cup victories
Campello has won eleven World Cups so far.
| date | place | country | discipline |
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| July 26th to July 30th, 2002 | Costa Calma | Spain | Freestyle |
| April 30 to May 4, 2003 | Agüimes | Spain | Wave |
| June 26th to July 3rd, 2003 | Pozo Izquierdo | Spain | Freestyle |
| December 2 to December 9, 2003 | Kralendijk | Bonaire | Freestyle |
| July 7th to July 15th, 2004 | Costa Teguise | Spain | Freestyle |
| July 17 to July 25, 2004 | Costa Calma | Spain | Freestyle |
| January 10 to January 16, 2005 | London | United Kingdom | Indoor |
| June 28 to July 6, 2005 | Costa Calma | Spain | Freestyle |
| January 12 to January 15, 2006 | London | United Kingdom | Indoor |
| October 18 to October 26, 2014 | Plomeur | France | Wave |
| July 14th to July 20th, 2019 | Pozo Izquierdo | Spain | Wave |
More Achievements
- KING OF THE HUTS ( Aruba ) 1999 - 1st freestyle junior ranking
- KING OF EL YAQUE ( Isla Margarita ) 1999 - 1st freestyle
- KING OF THE HUTS ( Aruba ) 2000 - 1st freestyle junior ranking
- Margarita Hi-winds ( Isla Margarita ) 2000 - 1st freestyle
- Margarita Hi-winds ( Isla Margarita ) 2001 - 1st freestyle
- Prince of the Lake ( Lake Garda ) 2001
- Ceara Wind ( Jericoacoara ) 2002 - 1st place
Web links
- Ricardo Campello's Instagram profile
- Ricardo Campello on the website of the World Cup Association PWA (English)
- Windsurfers: Ricardo Campello - an interview with the enfant terrible
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c surf magazine: Ricardo Campello drives for Patrik Board, published on January 27, 2014, accessed on August 15, 2017
- ↑ a b c d e f Graham Ezzy: Ricardo Campello - Nobody believed in me, surf magazine 4/2017, pp. 81–85
- ↑ a b Ricardo Campello on the website of the World Cup Association PWA (English), accessed on August 15, 2017
- ↑ Windsurf World Cup: world championship title
- ↑ Windsurfers: Ricardo Campello - Interview with the Enfant Terrible, accessed on August 25, 2017
- ↑ Patrik Windsurf: campello-wave, accessed on August 16, 2017
- ↑ Ricardo Campello Joins Naish in First Big Transfer of the Close Season , PWA, December 3, 2019
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Campello, Ricardo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Campello Alvarez, Ricardo Rochebois |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | venzuelan windsurfer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rio de Janeiro |