"The day i found out we have a big wave spot at home here in portugal, it gave me an enormous motivation to come to nazaré, and once i got to know this place and its people, that brought me back over and over again."
Biography
From the Algarve, Lagos, Alex was born on August 6th 1990. He grew up by the sea where almost anything he did was in the ocean. Later, as a teenager, this connection with the ocean drove him to travel until he started to spend the winters in California, dedicated to the wave of Mavericks, where his passion for big waves was born and grew. Nowadays he’s definitely one of the best free surfers of the country, and since 2013 he’s shown a big interest in surfing the waves at Praia do Norte, where he’s been a standout in the paddle sessions. Alex Botelho won in 2016 the Red Chargers prize for Portuguese performance and 3 out of 5 categories from the EDP Mar Sem Fim Awards.
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Alex Botelho
