Surfing

Lakey Peterson unleashed the heat of the 2019 season so far with the top two-wave total of the year, a near perfect 18.83 in QF 4 against Stephanie Gilmore

Stop number four on the 2019 World Surf League Championship Tour,  has been called on today in four to six-foot conditions at Main Break,

Stephanie Gilmore and Kanoa Igarashi won the Corona Bali Protected the third stop on the 2019 World Surf League championship.

Kanoa Igarashi won his first CT event title today after taking down a stacked field of veterans and first CT Win for Japan

Gilmore, seven-time WSL Champion, came into the Corona Bali Protected sitting in fifth place on the Jeep Leaderboard and took out the win.

Aussie Jack Freestone has taken out the Red Bull Airborne Bali, a World Surf League speciality event that highlights aerial surfing. 

Current World Number One’s John John Florence and Caroline Marks Fly Through their Seeding rounds at the Corona Bali Protected

The Corona Bali Protected has welcomed back the worlds best surfers for the start of the third stop on the World Surf League CT.

Billly Stairmand and Kirra Belle-Olsson have won the 2019 Gold Coast Open yesterday, in 2-3ft waves at Burleigh Point.  Crowds swarmed to Burleigh Hill

Beautiful sunny conditions and clean peeling waves welcomed competitors today at The Gold Coast Open with the stage for a massive finals day. 

Some of the world’s top surfers have converged on the Gold Coast ahead of the 2019 Gold Coast Open presented by Flight Centre which is set to kick off tomorrow, and will see surfers from all over the globe battling it out head-to-head for valuable World Surf League (WSL) Qualifying Series (QS) points. The event […]

In an amazing showing yesterday, Courtney Conlogue and John John Florence are winners of the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach ringing that iconic Bell

Finals Day at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, Stop No. 2 on the 2019 World Surf League Championship Tour is ON and underway with the men’s Quarterfinals. 

It’s Finals Day at Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach with Lakey Peterson, Courtney Conlogue, Malia Manuel vs Caroline Marks all competing to ring that Bell

The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach has been called on this morning in building six to eight-foot waves at Bells Beach with Womens Quarters and Mens Rounds.

A matchup for the ages with Two of the greatest surfers of the 1980s and 1990s, Mark ‘Occy’ Occhilupo and Tom Curren in the Heritage Heat at Bells Beach. 

Round 3 is now underway with overlapping heats and the swell is expected to improve with a once in 50-year storm expected

The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach will be off again today due to small surf, but with the expectation of improving conditions in the next few days

The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach,  Stop no 2 on the 2019 World Surf League Championship Tour has been called OFF for the day due to small swell.

The Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach, Stop No. 2 on the 2019 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), will recommence today with the remaining three heats of men’s Round 1, women’s Round 1, and men’s and women’s Round 2. After being on hold for the past three days, the event will begin at 7:05 […]

After a sensational season opener here on the Gold Coast, The world best have descended on Bells Beach ahead of the 58th Annual Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach.

Wayne resides on the Gold Coast, and his current venture sees him as a significant stakeholder in the music festival “The Drop Festival”, which is the

Today, Italo Ferreira and Caroline Marks won the Quiksilver Pro and Boost Mobile Pro Gold Coast, the opening stop on the World Surf League

Today Italo Ferreira, the 24-year-old got his World Title campaign off to a perfect start with a come-from-behind victory over Californian Kolohe Andino

17-year-old Marks earned her career-first event win today and vaults to No. 1 on the World Rankings. With only one year on the CT to her name

“Finals Day for the Quiksilver Pro and Boost Mobile Pro is on,” said Kieren Perrow, WSL Competition Director. “We will run at 6:35 a.m. AEST at Duranbah

Caroline Marks signature surfing has today earned her the biggest win of her career, 17-year-old Marks had Gilmore under pressure, requiring a near-perfect 9.16 (out of a possible 10) after she posted a 16.33 (out of a possible 20) heat total. Marks kept improving her lead with a third excellent ride to seal the deal […]

The 2019 World Surf League season has kicked off with a bang on the Gold Coast this week with a series of surprise results with 11x World Champ Kelly Slater being bundled out in Round 2 Today the surprises have continued which has seen an upset reminiscent of a young Gilmore hunting down the seasoned […]

The Quiksilver Pro and Boost Mobile Pro Gold Coast, the opening stop on the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), will continue today with Round 3 of both events called ON. The men will start at 7:05 a.m. AEST with overlapping, 40-minute heats. Women’s Round 3 will follow at 12:45 p.m. AEST with overlapping […]

Today, Italo Ferreira took out the Red Bull Airborne Gold Coast,  a World Surf League speciality event full of legends and characters all competing for the best in aerial surfing. The 24-year-old is known for his creative antics in the air, landing some of the Championship Tour’s biggest manoeuvres and setting the bar for above-the-lip […]

In a highly charged start to the year, and with a new format for the World Surf League that has seen some of the best of the best move surprisingly into the second round underway now at Duranbah. Has just seen a massive moment with 11x World Champion Kelly Slater eliminated in the second round […]

After a much-anticipated start, the World Surf League Championship Tour has officially opened for the 2019 season.  The first day of the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast saw the completion of Round 1 where the men took on Duranbah, the event’s back-up site, in four to five-foot conditions. The Red Bull Airborne Gold Coast also got […]

The 2019 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) season will officially open today with the Quiksilver Pro and Boost Mobile Pro Gold Coast. The event will launch what is set to be one of the biggest years in surfing yet with equal prize money, Olympic qualification, and a new level of progression from the […]

The World’s best have descended on the Gold Coast ahead of the season opener but before the competition kicks off it was time to celebrate with WSL Awards.

One such talent is the current female world surf champion, Stephanie Gilmore. Much more than just a talent she is, in fact, one of the greatest (if not the greatest) surfers ever to lay feet on a board.

It’s that time of year when the world best surfers are descending on the Gold Coast ahead of the world title opener next month; this year is set to be a massive year for the WSL with the announcement of prize money parity across the tours. We were lucky enough to catch up with one […]

Massive crowds have braved unruly weather to line the shores of Manly Beach and watch 11-time WSL World Champion Kelly Slater hit the water and compete at the 2019 Vissla Sydney Surf Pro,  World Surf League Qualifying Series event. The greatest surfer of all time didn’t disappoint, taking out his opening heat against QS warriors […]

The Sydney Surf Pro and Sydney Women’s Surf Pro saw an incredible opening day for 2019 at Manly with some of the world’s best surfers doing battle for World Surf League Qualification. Taking to the clean 2-3 foot waves at Manly, one of the world’s most iconic surfing locations, The Newcastle Surfest didn’t go to […]

Sally Fitzgibbons and Alex Ribiero have claimed victory at the 34th annual Newcastle Surfest, World Surf League Qualifying Series 6000 event in excellent waves at Merewether Beach.   The two has to battle through a massive field of surfers from all over the world to claim the first combined QS6,000 of the season. Sally Fitzgibbons now […]

After six years in the position, Commissioner Kieren Perror is stepping back

After a hugely successful event in 2018 and many years before it, the Burleigh Pro will return in 2019 better than ever – renamed as the Gold Coast Open presented by Flight Centre. The event is a World Surf League (WSL) QS 1,500 rated event and will run over 6 full days from the 7th to the […]

The stage is set for the upcoming opening event of the 2019 Women’s Championship Tour on the Gold Coast, Where history will be made as the first ever championship tour event to

The World Surf League has announced a renewal of their partnership with Quiksilver as the Title Sponsor of the opening event of the men’s WSL .

Today marks the end of a stellar career for Gold Coast owns Joel Parkinson who earlier today, surfed the last heat of his professional career on the Championship Tour,

The day’s final heat carried huge repercussions as 11-time World Champion Kelly Slater took on the Title hopeful Filipe Toledo at The Billabong Pipe Masters

Today Molly Picklum and Micah Margieson are the Under 18 Girls and Boys 2018 Surf Dive ‘n Ski Australian Junior Surfing Titles Champions.

Today our very own Stephanie Gilmore claimed an historic seventh World Surfing Title at Honolua Bay in Hawaii. Gilmore’s incredible achievement comes following remaining challenger Lakey Peterson early elimination

The 2018 World Title Race head to Maui with only Stephanie Gilmore and Lakey Peterson mathematically in contention to win the prestigious World Championship and possibly with Gilmore claiming her 7th World Title equalling Lane Beachley

2012 World Champion Joel Parkinson (AUS) was a vision of classic power surfing today at the Hawaiian Pro and earned the event win for the second time in his professional career

Stop No. 10 of 11 on the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), over Joan Duru (FRA) in a Final held in clean three-to-four foot (1 – 1.2 metre) surf at the iconic Supertubos beach break

Stop No. 10 of 11 on the Men’s World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), will kick off tomorrow

The final day of competition witnessed Julian Wilson and Courtney Conlogue plow through a stacked field to earn their momentous wins at the 17th running of the iconic French event.

The Quiksilver Pro France, Stop No. 9 on the World Surf League resumed today, Where Wildcard Ryan Callinan Upsets World Title Race, Eliminates Filipe Toledo

Stop No. 9 on the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), continued today in ideal four-to-six foot (1.2 – 1.8 metre) conditions at Plage des Culs Nus

The Roxy Pro France, Stop No. 9 on this year’s World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), resumed yesterday in three-to-four foot (1 – 1.2 metre) surf in the afternoon at Culs Nus

The World Surf League (WSL) announced that Maya Gabeira (BRA) has claimed the inaugural Women’s XXL Biggest Wave Award and a Guiness World Records title

Manly Beach will once again play host to world surfing’s elite when the Vissla Sydney Surf Pro returns from the 16 – 24 March 2019.

Australians Rob Bain, Layne Beachley and Dave Macaulay have won the Azores Airlines World Masters Championship in historic fashion today, claiming victory in the Final bouts against Cheyne Horan

The tropical setting at Praia da Tiririca, Bahia can be described simply as having great waves, lots of sun, warm water, amazing food and friendly people. From October 18 – 21,

The finals of the West Sumbawa Pro have been run and won at Yo-Yo’s for the first ever Word Surf League (WSL)

Carissa Moore and Gabriel Medina have won the inaugural Surf Ranch Pro presented by Hurley, Stop No. 8 on the World Surf League Championship Tour

The Surf Ranch Pro determined its eight male finalists and four female finalists today after the conclusion of the Qualifying Round,

The Surf Ranch Pro presented by Hurley fired back into action with the top-ranked surfers completing their first runs at Stop No. 8 on the World Surf League

The inaugural Surf Ranch Pro presented by Hurley commenced today in Lemoore, California with the world’s best surfers taking on inland California’s man-made wave, the Surf Ranch. Surfing in a format new to the Champion Tour (CT), eighteen men and ten women tested the leaderboard structure today at Stop No. 8 on the World Surf […]

The inaugural Surf Ranch Pro presented by Hurley gets underway today in Lemoore, California. The world’s best surfers will compete at Stop No. 8 on the World Surf League (WSL) Men’s and Women’s Championship

WSL today announced that it will award equal prize money to male and female athletes becoming the first and only US based global sports league, and among

Coco Ho (HAW) and Weslley Dantas (BRA) have won the Pull&Bear Pantin Classic Galicia Pro in the Final bouts against Sage Erickson (USA) and Carlos Munoz (CRI) held in pumping four-to-six foot surf in Pantin. Stop No. 10 of 12 on the 2018 World Surf League (WSL) European Qualifying Series (QS), the Pull&Bear Pantin Classic […]

Australian surfers Liam O’Brien and Vittoria Farmer have taken out the inaugural Simeulue Pro held on the paradise island in Aceh Province, Indonesia. For Farmer, it was her second QS win in a week while O’Brien found his second victory in under a year. The final day was blessed with super clean and extremely high […]

Gabriel Medina (BRA) claimed victory today at the Tahiti Pro Teahupo’o, Stop No. 7 on the World Surf League (WSL) Men’s Championship Tour (CT). An exciting Finals Day witnessed Medina take his first win of the 2018 season in clean three-to-five foot (1 – 1.5 metre) waves at the famed South Pacific reef pass. Medina, […]

Josh Kerr (AUS) has taken out the 2018 Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy in a thrilling Final Day of action in pumping surf at Sultans. Kerr won two of the three divisions to set up a Grand Finale matchup with Alejo Muniz (BRA). Day 3 of competition saw the best conditions of the event […]

Twelve of Australia’s best junior female surfers have wrapped up three days to remember in the 2018 Layne Beachley Camp at the Surfing Australia High Performance Centre (HPC) as part of the Localsearch Talent ID Program. The group has benefited from judged surf sessions, jet ski assisted surf sessions, video review sessions, a breath enhancement […]

With today marking Day One of the 2018 Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy, competitors for this year’s event have arrived at the sublime island paradise of Four Seasons Kuda Huraa. With a great looking forecast for the perfect right-handers of Sultans, the race is on to see who will take out this year instalment […]

Hometown heroes Courtney Conlogue (USA) and Kanoa Igarashi (JPN) won the 2018 Vans US Open of Surfing presented by Swatch in the World Surf League (WSL) Women’s Championship Tour (CT) and Men’s Qualifying Series (QS) divisions, respectively. Conlogue’s dream of winning the esteemed US Open title as a CT contender was realized after taking down current Jeep Rankings Leader Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) in […]

The 2018 Vans US Open of Surfing presented by Swatch got back underway with an exciting, inaugural Women’s Duct Invitational event and heavyweight Round 3 Men’s Qualifying Series (QS) matchups before the first two heats of Round 4 were contested. Big names stumbled on the men’s front as QS newcomers continue making a name for […]

The 2018 Vans US Open of Surfing presented by Swatch scorched through competition with the Women’s Pro Junior event completing Round 1, the Quarterfinals and Semifinals before running through the remaining heats of the Men’s Qualifying Series (QS) 10,000 Round 2 Heats (17-24). Now, both Men’s and Women’s Pro Junior Final matchups are set and […]

With Just a few weeks until the 2018 Four Seasons Maldives Surfing Champions Trophy kicks off, momentum is building with the announcement of the final invitees for the ‘world’s most luxurious surf event.’

Mick Fanning has called time on a professional surfing career that has thrilled fans around the world since he won his first competition back in 2001.

Today, Filipe Toledo (BRA) won the Men’s Corona Open J-Bay for the second year in a row. The Brasilian lit up four-to-six foot (1.3 – 2 metre) Supertubes at Jeffreys Bay to win the sixth stop the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) and vault to World No. 1 on the Jeep Leaderboard. “Back-to-back […]

Today, 2012 WSL Champion Joel Parkinson, 37, announced his retirement from the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT). Parkinson will surf the remaining CT events of the year (excluding the MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal) and retire from full-time competition after his final heat at the world-renowned Billabong Pipe Masters in Memory of Andy […]

There’s nothing like a dose of surf, sand, and waves to help cleanse the spirit, reconnect with nature and get you out of your comfort zone. Much like diving into an unknown destination, surfing can be intimidating at first – but once you get in the groove, the adrenaline rush can lead to a lifelong […]

The World Surf League (WSL) today announced the appointment of Andrew Stark as its General Manager, WSL, for Australia & Oceania. Stark will lead the day-to-day operations of WSL in the Australia & Oceania Region with particular focus on Partnerships, Marketing and Public Relations, Event Operations as well as the development of the first WSL […]

The 2017 Australian Open of Surfing is off and running at Manly Beach with Round 1 of the Girls Make Your Call Women’s Pro in the water. Both the Men’s and Women’s events are the second WSL Qualifying Series (QS) 6000 events of the season meaning they have attracted an international field with some of the sports […]