Pierre-Louis COSTES – French Surfing Federation

Born on 25 January 1990
HAIR Vichy (Allier)
Discipline : Bodyboarding
Category : Open
Club : Union of Surf Clubs of Arcachon Bay (Gironde)

Prize list
APB World Champion 2016
ISA World Champion 2011
2011 IBA World Champion
2010 IBA world vice champion
APB world vice-champion 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2019
Winner of the European Tour of Bodyboard in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015

National ranking: No. 2
Number of selections for the French team: 6

Organic express

Nothing was destined for “PLC” to become one of the best bodyboarders on the planet. He was born in Vichy and grew up in Antibes. But aged 9, his parents moved to Morocco where he received a bodyboard for Christmas 1999. A few months later he won his first competition. The start of a magnificent career.
Back in France, the Costes family settled in Landes. PLC quickly became young French champion, then European champion. At 15, he took part in his first professional competition in Australia. Based on the trials, he won ahead of some of the best in the world. A few weeks later he was a semi-finalist in the Sintra Pro, a leg of the world tour.
He quickly climbed up the world hierarchy, moving to number 2 behind his friend Amaury Lavernhe in 2010 and logically becoming world champion the following year. Even better, he also won the ISA world title with the French team. Considered one of, if not the best in the world, the most incredible records, PLC finished the 2014 season in second place behind Lavernhe.
Let him double in 2015 to fail 30 small units from South African Jared Houston. Vice-world champion after a dramatic finale during the last leg of the APB tour in November in Puerto Rico, Landais finished the season like a cannonball. World No. 2, winner for the fourth consecutive year of the European Tour (ETB), he donned the costume of the French team four years after his last appearance (and the 2011 World Championship) to compete in the World Nations Championships ISA in Chile. Relay gold winner, PLC went out too early in the Open.
We totally found the competitor that seemed to have placed itself in the shadow of the free surfer. If his clips are still staggering, Pierre-Louis Costes (age 26) had a near-perfect 2016 season that took him to the World Cup in October. He started the season even better than he finished the last one: He won hands down during the first stage of the world tour, at the beginning of March in Pipeline (Hawaii). Winning in Nazaré in early October, landais reached the final of Fronton King by securing his second professional world title in the semi-finals.
He lost the world title in 2017 but managed to secure a vice-world title (his third) at the end of a season that saw him skip several competitions due to paternity.
Despite two finals in Chile and Sintra, PLC finished the 2018 season in 4th place in the world rankings. He was then vice world champion in 2019. On forced rest in 2020, he distinguished himself in 2021 by winning the Fronton King (Canaries) and then the Annaëlle Challenge (Brittany) each time in difficult conditions.
He came back even stronger in 2022, notably winning the Sintra Pro and eventually finishing 6th in the world rankings after the final stage in the Canary Islands.