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2025 World Surf League
The 2025 World Surf League is the 48th season of all iterations of the tour circuit for professional surfers. Billabong Pipe Masters will be the first round of the tour. For the first time, the season will end Cloudbreak, in Tavarua, Fiji, will host the WSL Finals to determine the 2025 World Champions. It is the first time the WSL Finals has moved locations since its debut in 2021. John John Florence and Caitlin Simmers are the defending champions from the 2024 season. Florence announced on 21 January 2025 his withdrawal from the 2025 season, allowing rookie Alan Cleland Jr. to take his spot on the CT. Eight time World Title holder Stephanie Gilmore also confirmed she will not compete in the 2025 WSL CT. The 2025 CT will include eleven regular-season events in nine countries. The Mid-season cut will come into action following stop number seven in Margaret River, Australia. Surfers who make the cut will compete in United States, Brazil and South Africa. The final event of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hawaii
Hawaii ( ; ) is an island U.S. state, state of the United States, in the Pacific Ocean about southwest of the U.S. mainland. One of the two Non-contiguous United States, non-contiguous U.S. states (along with Alaska), it is the only state not on the North American mainland, the only state that is an archipelago, and the only state in the tropics. Hawaii consists of 137 volcanic islands that comprise almost the entire Hawaiian Islands, Hawaiian archipelago (the exception, which is outside the state, is Midway Atoll). Spanning , the state is Physical geography, physiographically and Ethnology, ethnologically part of the Polynesian subregion of Oceania. Hawaii's ocean coastline is consequently the List of U.S. states and territories by coastline, fourth-longest in the U.S., at about . The eight main islands, from northwest to southeast, are Niihau, Niihau, Kauai, Kauai, Oahu, Oahu, Molokai, Molokai, Lanai, Lānai, Kahoʻolawe, Kahoolawe, Maui, and Hawaii (island), Hawaii, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caitlin Simmers
Caitlin Simmers (born October 26, 2005) is an American surfer from Oceanside, California, who has competed professionally since 2018. She qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games. Career Simmers qualified for the 2022 CT by finishing fourth in the 2021 Challenger Series. Her first victory on the professional circuit was when she won the US Open of Surfing, the first event of the CS in 2021. In 2022 Simmers, who was 16-years old, decided to withdraw from the 2022 WSL Championship Tour to focus on developing her surfing and staying close to her family. She returned to compete in the 2022 Challenger Series where she once again qualified for the 2023 WSL Championship Tour. She won the first CS event in 2022, beating Molly Picklum in the grand final of the Boost Mobile Gold Coast Pro in Australia. 2023 Season In 2023, Simmers made her debut in the world surfing elite. Her first major result was victory at MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal beating Courtney Conlogue in the grand final. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanne Defay
Johanne Defay (born 19 November 1993) is a French professional surfer. She was born in Le Puy-en-Velay in the Auvergne region of France. She qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games where she won bronze. She began surfing at the age of 8 off the beaches of Reunion Island, which is her home today. After Johanne's first competition when she was only ten years old, she quickly moved through the European amateur ranks to eventually take on the WSL World Qualifying Series. In 2008 Defay almost gave up competing. She was finding it difficult to transition from the juniors to the WQS and then the economy crashed causing many surf companies cancel their sponsorships. At that time, Johanne found herself without sponsors and also without decent results. However, with her parents’ encouragement, Johanne was able to qualify for the World Championship Tour within two years. She has won five World Surf League The World Surf League (WSL) is the governing body for professional surfing, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yago Dora
Yago Dora (born May 18, 1996), is a Brazilian professional surfer who is in the World Surf League. Early life Yago Dora was born in Curitiba, but developed his passion for surfing when his family moved to Florianópolis, encouraged by his father, Leandro Dora, a great coach of the world's surfing elite. Dora started later than others in the world of surfing, but at 11 everything changed and he was soon doing radical maneuvers. Career In 2017, he made his first appearance at a WSL Men's Championship Tour event at the Saquarema stage of the Oi Rio Pro as a wildcard, where he performed surprisingly well, finishing 3rd and defeating big names in world surfing such as Gabriel Medina, Mick Fanning and John John Florence. That same year, he placed 6th in the Qualifying Series and qualified for the 2018 CT for the first time in his career. In the following years, Yago quickly gained prominence on the world circuit, but his rise was interrupted after tearing the ligament in his lef ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Picklum
Molly Picklum (born 26 November 2002) is an Australian professional surfer. She competes in the elite (top 16) of the World Surf League. She was born in Gosford, Australia.https://www.redbull.com/us-en/athlete/molly-picklum In her second year in WCT tour (2023) she won the event in Sunset Beach (Hawaii) and in 2024 successfully defended her title. She represented Australia in the 2024 Summer Olympics The 2024 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad () and branded as Paris 2024, were an international multi-sport event held in France from 26 July to 11 August 2024, with several events started from 24 July. P .... Surfing results Victories References External linksProfile in World Surf League * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethan Ewing
Ethan Ewing (born 2 September 1998, in North Stradbroke Island, Queensland) is an Australian professional surfer. Ewing had his best WSL performance in 2023, when he finished 3rd on the CT after the regular season. In the Rip Curl WSL finals, Ewing defeated Griffin Colapinto before falling to champion Filipe Toledo to finish 2nd in the world. He qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games. Surfing characteristics Ethan Ewing is known for his impeccable rail surfing, the Australian is often compared to Mick Fanning and Andy Irons, mainly for the way he attacks the waves, mainly by the use of speed, power and flow. Ewing surfs regular and tends to prioritize the more traditional Aussie lineup with a power surf. However, the "Aussie" also shows he can do airs, proving that at the 2023 Surf Ranch. Surfing career Ethan started in the WSL in 2012 at the Junior World Championships and made his debut in the Men's Qualifying Series in 2015. In 2016, at the age of 18, he raised his level a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brisa Hennessy
Brisa Tomi Hennessy Kobara (born September 16, 1999) is a Costa Rican professional surfer who competes in the World Surf League (WSL). In 2019, Hennessy's standing in the WSL qualified her to represent Costa Rica for Surfing at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.Costa Rican Surfer Brisa Hennessy Qualifies for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, ''The Costa Rica Star'', 5 December 2019 (accessed 29 March 2021) The Tokyo Olympics marked the first instance for surfing to be recognised as an . She [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Robinson (surfer)
Jack Robinson (born 27 December 1997) is an Australian professional surfer who competes on the World Surf League Men's Championship Tour. He was crowned surfer of the year twice at the Australian Surfing Awards in 2020 and 2021. Robinson is often considered to one of the best barrel riders of the current days. Robinson did his best WSL performance in 2022 where he finished 3rd on the final rankings. He qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games, where he won silver. Early years and personal life Robinson was born in December 1997 in Perth, Western Australia to parents Mersina Stratos and Trevor Robinson. He began surfing at age three. By the age of six, he moved with his family to Margaret River, Western Australia. By age 11, Robinson was surfing eight-to-10 foot "second reef" waves at Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii. In 2010, Robinson was featured on the cover of '' The Weekend Australian Magazine'' and was described as a potential future Kelly Slater. In 2020, he married Julia Muniz, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatiana Weston-Webb
Tatiana "Tati" Guimarães Weston-Webb (born May 9, 1996) is a Brazilian surfer based in Kauai, Hawaii. She is also both American and English. She was the only rookie on the professional surfing World Championship Tour in 2015. Weston-Webb wears jersey number 9, and her 2016 'CT rank is number 4. She competed in both the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics for Brazil, winning silver in the latter and because of that she became the first woman surfer from Brazil to win a medal at the Olympics. Personal life Weston-Webb's father, Douglas Weston-Webb, was born in England, a descendant of a family engaged in the textile business. The Weston-Webb name is a heritable double-barrelled surname, created through the marriage of two children from significant families in that industry. He moved at an early age to the U.S. state of Florida, where he was raised. He learned to surf at age eight and later became a " surf bum" and relocated to Kauai in his 20s. Weston-Webb's mother, Tanira Westo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Griffin Colapinto
Griffin Colapinto ( ; born July 29, 1998) is an American professional surfer who has competed on the World Surf League Men's World Tour since 2018. Colapinto has finished twice in the top three of the World Surf League Championship, in 2023 and 2024. He qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games where he was eliminated in the third round of the men's shortboard competition. Surfing career Colapinto has been surfing in competition since the 2011 men's junior season at 13 years old. In 2015, he won first place at the Junior Men's US Open of Surfing. As a junior surfer, Colapinto went viral in 2016 with an air-reverse to win a Qualifying Series heat at the Hawaii Pro. In 2017, he made the final of the WSL's World Junior Championship. He finished the year winning the Triple Crown in Hawaii and claimed the top spot in the Qualifying Series rankings. He thus qualified for the following year's Championship Tour. At the 2018 Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast he completed a triple-barrel an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Caroline Marks
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. Marks is the youngest surfer to qualify for the women's Championship Tour. She competed in the elite (top 16) of the World Surf League and ended 2018 season in 7th place, earning Rookie of the Year. She lives in San Clemente, California. In 2019, Marks qualified as one of the two women on the United States' first surfing team to compete at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. At the 2024 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal in the women's shortboard event. Early life Marks' mother and grandmother were raised in Greece. Marks' mother later moved to the United States and gave birth to Marks in Florida. She is the third of six children.Graham, Pat (July 10, 2021)"High ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ítalo Ferreira
Ítalo Ferreira da Costa (born 6 May 1994) is a Brazilian professional surfer hailing from a small community of Baía Formosa, in Rio Grande do Norte on the northeastern coast of Brazil. Early life Ferreira learned to surf on a three-foot-long lid of a coolbox his father used to transport fish to sell to restaurants in Baia Formosa. He quickly progressed to a real board and at 12 years of age, his talent was noticed and then nurtured by fellow surfer Jadson André, Jadson Andre and the legendary Brazilian surf coach, Luiz 'Pinga' Campos, who was then marketing director of one of the world's leading surf brands. Career Soon after, Ítalo won two rounds of the Junior World Championship in 2011 (finishing runner-up in the category overall), won the Brazilian Championship and in 2014, he finally qualified for the World Surf League, World Championship Tour. Ferreira first gained notoriety on the Championship Tour during his 2015 World Surf League, 2015 rookie season. During hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
