Coming out of the surf after an all-Gisborne over-60s heat at the 2018 national championships in Gisborne are (from left) Benny Hutchings, John Gisby, Ross Moodie and Chris Ransley. Gisby won the title that year and in Dunedin this week claimed the over-70s crown. Alongside him in that final were Moodie, who was second, and Hutchings, third. Gisby won his first nationals title (the senior division) in Gisborne in 1984. Ransley was second to him in that final. Gisborne Herald file picture
John Gisby is 70 and as excited as his 12-year-old self catching his first wave at Roberts Road on a big wooden surfboard.
“I’m absolutely ecstatic,” he said by phone from Dunedin after winning the over-70s men’s division of the national surfing championships at St Clair Beach on Monday.
It brought to 40, the number of Gisby’s national titles, and this after a two-year break from the t...
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