Manuel Centeno is a former bodyboarding

Bodyboarding

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 European and World Champion, having won the ISA World Surfing Games 2006 on the 22nd October, at Huntington Beach

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, California

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, United States

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Manuel Centeno was born in Porto

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, Portugal

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, he started practicing bodyboarding

Bodyboarding

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 at the age of 14, and at the age of 16 he had already won some local trophies. Besides practicing professional bodyboarding, Manuel Centeno has finished in December 2006, the architecture degree, at the University of Porto

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• 2000 - Portuguese Champion
• 2001 - European Champion
• 2006 - Portuguese Champion
• 2006 - European Champion
• 2006 - World Champion

Trivia

• Favourite Bodyboarder: Ryan Hardy
• Favourite Architects: Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron
• Favourite Wave: Pipeline
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• Favourite Building: House of Musica, Porto
• Favourite Local Beach: Praia do Norte
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  , Nazaré
  Nazaré
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• Favourite Foreign Beach: Desert Point, Lombok
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  , Indonesia
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