Stephanie Gilmore won a historic seventh world surfing title at Honolua Bay, in Hawaii. The Australian surfer equals the record for the most women’s world titles – currently held by Layne Beachley – and puts Gilmore in an elite class within surfing’s world champions. In fact, only two other individuals have accomplished the feat of […]
Competitive surfing can be divided into five different eras. From crowning the first world champion in 1964 until now, there have been several tours, spanning from 1964 to present day. The history of surfing is also made of champions. Athletes who, in a judge-based action sport, surfed better than their opponents in the decisive heat. […]
The world’s best young guns will ride for glory at the 2015 International Surfing Association (ISA) World Junior Surfing Championship, to be run in Oceanside, California, between October 11th-18th. Tom Curren, Gabriel Medina, Julian Wilson, Jordy Smith, Alejo Muniz, Filipe Toledo, Owen Wright, Stephanie Gilmore, Sally Fitzgibbons, Laura Enever and Tyler Wright have won gold […]
Carissa Moore won the Rip Curl Women’s Pro Bells Beach 2015. The Hawaiian defeated Stephanie Gilmore in a tight final, and she is the first female surfer to win three consecutive titles in the Australian break. In their 21st matchup in pro surfing, Moore and Gilmore gave all they had. Stephanie opened with a sharp […]
Roxy Pro Round 2 Fires Up Snapper RocksTuesday, 3 March 2015 COOLANGATTA, Queensland/Australia (Tuesday, March 3, 2015) – Action at the Roxy Pro Gold Coast presented by BOQ continued today with Round 2 after two-consecutive lay days. The first elimination round of this year’s Samsung Galaxy World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour saw fiery exchanges […]
The world’s best male and female surfers have touched down in the beach breaks of Southwest France. The Quiksilver Pro France 2014 and Roxy Pro France 2014 have ordered heavy barrels and surprising buzzer-beater decisions. Are you ready? Mick Fanning has won the Quiksilver Pro France four times. He’s the Hossegor master, the surfer who […]
The 2014 Vans US Open will celebrate its 20th anniversary, between 27th July and 3rd August, in Huntington Beach, Surf City USA. The prestigious American title is up for grabs exactly when Huntington Beach commemorates 100 years of surfing in town. The event will attract Dream Tour, Qualification Series, and Pro Junior surfers from all […]
The best female surfers in the world have tasted the power of Restaurants, as the 2014 Fiji Women’s Pro enters Round 4 in four-to-six foot (1.5-2 metre) surf. Laura Enever shone as the day’s highest scorer, combining tubes, turns and lip attacks to secure an overall heat total of 18.84 points against Sally Fitzgibbons and […]
Gabriel Medina defeated Joel Parkinson to win the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast 2014, at Snapper Rocks. The Brazilian wonder boy is the first Brazilian and only the second goofy-footer ever to win the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. Medina took out the title by a very narrow margin: 0.06 points. Parkinson opened the final with an […]
TARANAKI, New Zealand (Saturday, April 14, 2012) – Stephanie Gilmore (AUS), 24, has won the TSB Bank NZ Surf Festival’s blue ribbon event, the Dow AgroSciences Pro in clean three foot (1.5 metre) surf over Carissa Moore (HAW), 19, at Taranaki, New Zealand today.