Manuel Centeno

Manuel Centeno is a former Portuguese bodyboarder, born on 18 September 1980 in Porto, who won both European and world titles in the sport. He took up bodyboarding at the age of fourteen and had already collected local trophies by sixteen. His results list Portuguese champion in 2000 and again in 2006, European champion in 2001 and again in 2006, and world champion in 2006, the year he won the ISA World Surfing Games at Huntington Beach in California on 22 October. Alongside his competitive career he studied architecture at the University of Porto and finished that degree in December 2006. The English Wikipedia article is brief, so this entry covers only his birth, his start in the sport, his championship years and his degree, and it makes no claim about what he did after 2006.