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Baronial surf contest organizer from Lima, Peru; founder, in 1964, of the International Surfing Federation, and director of the World Surfing Championships in 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, and 1972. Arena was born (1928) and raised in Lima, and began riding waves in 1948 in front of Club Waikiki in Miraflores, the birthplace and longtime hub of Peruvian surfing. He took an engineering degree from Lima's National University in Lima in 1950, and three years later received a master's in engineering from UCLA.

Arena won the debut Peru International contest in 1956, and in 1964 traveled to Australia to represent Peru in the first World Surfing Championships. While in Sydney, Arena laid the groundwork for the formation of the International Surfing Federation (ISF), to consolidate the surf world's quickly multiplying organizations, and to provide an overseeing body for future World Championship events. A few weeks later the group was chartered, with Arena elected chairman. The ISF produced the 1965 World Championships, held in Lima, with Arena serving admirably as contest director; "a dapper Peruvian gentleman," Australian contestant Nat Young later recalled, "with a warm smile and a distinguished mane of gray hair."

It was Arena, more than anyone, who first codified the rules and regulations of international competitive surfing. He also helped convince ABC to cover the 1966 World Championships in San Diego, California, as well as the 1968 Championships in Puerto Rico. The 1970 and 1972 Championships (held in Victoria, Australia, and San Diego, respectively) didn't go nearly as well as the previous three, and in late 1972 Arena and the ISF both quietly withdrew from international amateur surfing. Arena did, however, help organize and run the Smirnoff Pro-Am, in Hawaii, during the early '70s.

In 2008, Arena received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Surf Industry Manufacturers Association.

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