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Team. 2024 Arecibo. Team. Fitzgibbons (far right) aboard super-maxi yacht Perpetual Loyal. Sally Fitzgibbons (born 19 December 1990) is an Australian professional surfer on the Association of Surfing Professionals World Tour (2009–2013). In June 2019, she was ranked No. 1 in the world for women's surfing after winning the Rio Pro .
Bethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer and writer. In 2003, she survived a shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off; ultimately, she returned to professional surfing and wrote about her experiences in the 2004 autobiography, Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board.
World Games. 2019 Miyazaki. Team. Caroline Marks (born February 14, 2002) is an American professional surfer. She is the 2023 World Surf League Women's World Tour Champion and an Olympic gold medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She has won multiple national championships and is the youngest woman to compete in a World Surf League event.
Surfing career. Menczer started surfing aged 12 [ 1 ] in about 1982. She won the 1988 women's amateur world title at the competition held in Puerto Rico, [ 2 ] the 1993 women's world championship and was a long-standing competitor on the world championship tour. In 1991 and 1992 Menczer was narrowly beaten in the world championship by Wendy ...
ESPY Award ( Best Female Action Sports Athlete (2009) Teen Choice Awards 2010. Maya Reis Gabeira (born April 10, 1987) is a Brazilian big wave surfer. She surfed a 22.4 m (73 ft) high wave in Nazaré, Portugal in February 2020, recorded by Guinness World Records as the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman. [1] [2] She also held the previous ...
The biggest difference from her experiences growing up as a five-sport athlete in a straight-size body, however, was the lack of community that she felt as a plus-size woman attempting the same ...
Olympic. Yes, as of the 2020 Olympics. Women's surfing is thought to date back to the 17th century. One of the earliest records of women surfing is of princess Keleanohoana’api’api, also known as Kalea or the Maui Surf Riding Princess. It is rumored that Kalea was the trailblazer of surfing and could surf better than both men and women.
Laura Louise " Lakey " Peterson (born September 30, 1994) is an American professional surfer. She has been ranked as high as No. 1 by the World Surf League, [ 3] the highest professional level of women's surfing, and #6 on the ASP Women's World Ranking. [ 4] In 2009, Peterson landed the first-ever aerial in NSSA women's competition history and ...