Joey Buran will lead the United States surfing team into the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in Japan. USA Surfing, the national governing body for the sport of surfing in the United States of America, announced that Buran will be the head coach of the US Olympic surfing team. Joey Buran won the 1984 Pipeline […]
Kanoa Igarashi has taken out the Pro Santa Cruz 2018 in historic fashion, claiming victory in the final against Aritz Aranburu, in three-to-five foot surf at Praia da Física, in Santa Cruz. Stop number six on the 2018 World Surf League (WSL) European Qualifying Series (QS), the Pro Santa Cruz 2018 has been treated to mixed […]
Kanoa Igarashi will represent Japan in the 2018 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour. The 20-year-old surfer was born in Huntington Beach, California, but he has dual citizenship – his parents and family are Japanese. With this announcement, Igarashi hopes to compete for the Land of the Rising Sun in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Simultaneously, […]
The International Surfing Association (ISA) and the World Surf League (WSL) have reached an agreement on the qualification principles for surfing’s debut in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. According to both organizations, 18 of the 40 places at the Games will be reserved for WSL’s Championship Tour (CT) surfers (10 men and 8 women), with the […]
Four-time world champion. World surfing legend. Australian hero. One of the most humble, down-to-earth world champions the sport has ever produced. Explore the mind and the thoughts of Mark Richards. Mark Richards was born on March 7, 1957, in Newcastle, New South Wales. He won four consecutive world titles (1979-1982) under the International Professional Surfers […]
Tokyo 2020 announced that the Olympic surfing competition will take place at Tsurigasaki Beach, in Japan. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) Executive Board approved the venues for the Olympic debut of five new sports (surfing, skateboarding, sport climbing, karate, and baseball/softball). Surfing’s first Olympic Games appearance will occur at Tsurigasaki Beach, in the Chiba prefecture, […]
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 […]
Kelly Slater says he would be honored to represent the United States of America in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. The 11-time world surfing champion will be 48 by the time the Olympics begin in Japan, but he believes he can do it if physically fit. Slater is well aware of the courtship between surfing […]
Surfing has been confirmed in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, in Japan. What do surfers and industry professionals have to say? More than two decades after kicking off the Olympic campaign, and losing five bids, surfing made the cut. Surfing is one step closer of becoming an Olympic sport, with 40 male and female wave riders […]
Hiroto Ohhara has conquered the 2015 Vans US Open of Surfing, in two-foot surf at Huntington Beach, California. Japan is celebrating an historic win. Ohhara defeated Tanner Hendrickson to become the first ever Japanese surfer to claim the US Open of Surfing. The victory was sealed with an excellent 9.17 when there were only three […]