Manuel Centeno

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Manuel Centeno (born 18 September 1980) is a former bodyboarding ^[1] European and World Champion, having won the ISA World Surfing Games 2006 on 22 October, at Huntington Beach, California, United States.

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Manuel Centeno was born in Porto, Portugal, he started practicing bodyboarding 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.

Porto is the second-largest city in Portugal after Lisbon and one of the major urban areas of the Iberian Peninsula. The city proper has a population of 287,591 and the metropolitan area of Porto, which extends beyond the administrative limits of the city, has a population of 2.3 million (2011) in an area of 2,395 km² (925 sq mi), making it the second-largest urban area in Portugal. It is recognized as a gamma-level global city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Study Group, the only Portuguese city besides Lisbon to be recognised as a global city.

Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, is a country located mostly on the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. It is the westernmost sovereign state of mainland Europe, being bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain. Its territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira, both autonomous regions with their own regional governments.

The University of Porto is a Portuguese public university located in Porto, and founded on 22 March 1911. It is the second largest Portuguese university by number of enrolled students, after the University of Lisbon, and has one of the most noted research outputs in Portugal.

2000 - Portuguese Champion
2001 - European Champion
2006 - Portuguese Champion
2006 - European Champion
2006 - World Champion^[2]

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↑ Boal, Bruce; Surfersvillage (2009-05-15). The Surfing Yearbook. Gibbs Smith. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-4236-0558-4 . Retrieved 8 April 2011. ..bodyboard In a tough final in which the favorites were the locals Manuel Centeno and Hugo Pinheiro (gold and silver medal winners in the 2006 Games) surfing on their home turf,...
↑ "South Africa gets gold in longboard at ISA World Games". Global Surf News. 11–19 October 2008. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.

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[BoalSurfersvillage2009-1] Boal, Bruce; Surfersvillage (2009-05-15). The Surfing Yearbook. Gibbs Smith. p. 90. ISBN 978-1-4236-0558-4 . Retrieved 8 April 2011. ..bodyboard In a tough final in which the favorites were the locals Manuel Centeno and Hugo Pinheiro (gold and silver medal winners in the 2006 Games) surfing on their home turf,...

[2] "South Africa gets gold in longboard at ISA World Games". Global Surf News. 11–19 October 2008. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 8 April 2011.