The Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has supported the proposal to add surfing – and four new individual and team sports – to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The sport of surfing will be included in the Games of the XXXII Olympiad. For the first time in its history, surfers will battle […]
Miguel Pupo won the Oi HD Sao Paulo Open of Surfing, in Maresias, Brazil. The Brazilian surfer has secured a spot in the 2016 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour after claiming the QS 10,000 event in front of his home crowd. The final heat got underway in four-to-six-foot surf. Pupo defeated the Australian sensation […]
Kanoa Igarashi has done it. The US surfer will take part on the 2016 World Surf League Championship Tour. The 18-year-old surfer from Huntington Beach won the 2015 Mahalo Surf Eco Festival, in Brazil. Igarashi defeated Connor O’Leary in the final held at Praia da Tiririca, in Itacaré, and confirmed a golden spot among the […]
Filipe Toledo scored a Perfect 10 to conquer the Oi Rio Pro 2015, at Barra de Tijuca, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Toledo’s air game paid off. Once again. The Brazilian surfer defeated Bede Durbidge with a near-perfect final, i.e., a total heat score of 19.87. Filipe won two of the first four stages in the 2015 World […]
The Brazilian pro surfer Ricardo dos Santos is battling for his life after being shot three times by two men, in Praia da Guarda do Embaú, near Palhoca, in Brazil. Dos Santos suffered three shots in the chest and lungs at 8:50am, while he was making home improvements with his grandfather and two workers. Apparently, […]
Gabriel Medina is the first ever Brazilian to claim a world surfing trophy. The history of competitive surfing has just added another flag to the list of champions. And it’s not easy to win a world title these days. Precisely 50 years after the inaugural ISF World Surfing Championships won by Midget Farrelly and Phyllis […]
The 2014 Vans Triple Crown of Surfing is on. Waves peaking at 25 feet opened the Reef Hawaiian Pro, at Haleiwa, Hawaii. The locals dominated Round 1. Ezekiel Lau, 20, was a standout surfer of the day. The Hawaiian was able to steal the highest heat score of the day – 18.53 points out of […]
Fourteen ASP World Championship Tour (WCT) surfers have requalified for the 2015 World Surf League. Gabriel Medina, Mick Fanning, Kelly Slater, John John Florence, Michel Bourez, Joel Parkinson, Jordy Smith, Adriano De Souza, Taj Burrow, Kolohe Andino, Josh Kerr, Owen Wright, Nat Young, and Bede Durbidge can keep it cool for Pipe. But there’s too […]
The SATA Azores Pro 2014 has entered quarterfinals, in bumpy two-to-three foot surf, at the magnificent Praia de Santa Barbara, in the Azores Islands. Leonardo Fioravanti, the reigning European junior surfing champion, surprised fans with a victory against Patrick Gudauskas. The Italian kept calm and seized the only two opportunities he was given, including a […]
Kieran Grant has taken out the 2014 US Deaf Open of Surfing, Huntington Beach, California. The event held by the International Deaf Surfriders Association attracted competitors from all over the world, including Brazil, Israel, England, Ireland, Australia, Japan, Basque Country, Uruguay and the USA. The US Deaf Open of Surfing was formed in 2001 to […]