Andre Botha

Andre Botha is a South African bodyboarder, born in Cape Town in 1981. He left school at fifteen to become a professional rider and, within three years, had won two world titles: his first at seventeen and his second at eighteen, taking both the World GOB Tour Series and the Pipeline World Championships. He was the first South African to win the Morey Banzai Pipe Championships and the last champion of that seventeen year old event, and the first South African to win the Global Organization of Bodyboarding world title. He was also the second rider to win both the Pipe and GOB titles in a single year, and the following year won the first Mike Stewart Pipeline Pro. In December 2015 he was the first to reach Evan Geiselman after a serious wipeout at Pipeline.