Gabe Davies
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{{short description |British big-wave surfer}}
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4-time British surfing Champion
XXL big wave nominee 2009
La Vaca Gigante III big wave winner 2010
wave of the day award winner Billabong/Monster Mullaghmore tow-in event 2011.
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Gabriel 'Gabe' Davies is a British big-wave surfer.
Surf career
Davies is a four-time British surfing champion and big wave surfer from Newcastle, UK. He has appeared in award-winning surfing documentaries such as Joel Conroy's Eye of the Storm in 2002[http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/7439/news.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120323090803/http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/7439/news.htm |date=23 March 2012 }} Bundoran in the ‘Eye of the storm by Declan Browne and in 2009 he co-lead with Richie Fitzgerald in Joel Conroy's first featured documentary, Waveriders. Together they tow surfed the biggest swell ever ridden off the Irish Atlantic Coast for which Davies was nominated for a worldwide XXL big wave award.
[http://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/red-bulletin/riding-green-giants-waveriders-the-irish-surf-film-1810176.html "Riding green giants: Waveriders, the Irish surf film"], Independent, July 7, 2009[http://www.ukprosurf.com/tour-history-c26.html UK Pro Surf Roll of Honour] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605042551/http://www.ukprosurf.com/tour-history-c26.html |date=2010-06-05 }}[http://www.waveridersthefilm.com/cast-crew/gabe-davies-waveriders-cast-bio/ waveriders cast profile]
Davies has appeared in numerous television and film productions including presenting Channel 4's 'Surf Trip' with Tess Daly {{cite web |url=http://quiksilver.co.uk/england/team/surf/32/davies-gabriel.html |title=Quiksilver Europe - Team |accessdate=2011-03-07 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110609034055/http://quiksilver.co.uk/england/team/surf/32/davies-gabriel.html |archivedate=2011-06-09 }} and BBC 2's Teenage Video Diaries {{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2955366/otherworks|title=Gabe Davies|website=IMDb}}
On the 16 November 2009 he won 'Best Surfer' at The Quiksilver ‘La Vaca Gigante III’ Big Wave Invitational Event {{Cite web |url=http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/44061/news.htm |title=SurfersVillage |access-date=7 February 2011 |archive-date=5 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405132658/http://www.surfersvillage.com/surfing/44061/news.htm |url-status=dead }} In February 2011, he won the Wave of the Day Award at Ireland's inaugural big wave invitational event.{{citation needed|date=August 2014}} He currently{{when|date=August 2023}} resides in the North East of England, and is married to author and screenwriter Lauren Davies[http://www.laurendavies.net/] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101229143310/http://www.laurendavies.net/ |date=December 29, 2010 }}
References
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