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☆ Stephanie Gilmore and Carissa Moore: Two of the greatest female surfers stepping back from the sport
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Amy Woodyatt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

CNN —Surfing is about to experience a seismic change in 2024 as two of the standard-bearers of the sport are stepping away from the board and waves. Eight-time world champion Stephanie Gilmore is taking a break from competitive surfing – for a year, at least. Australian Gilmore, widely regarded as the greatest female surfer of all time, announced that she won’t be competing in the 2024 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour season, instead focusing on enjoying other things in life. Carissa Moore still plans to compete in Oahu and Tahiti for the Olympics before stepping away from the sport for good. Ryan Pierse/Getty Images/File“All those wins, the competitive part that’s so much of my identity, I’m taking that away, and I’m facing myself this year,” Moore told the Times.

Persons: Stephanie Gilmore, Australian Gilmore, “, ” Gilmore, haven’t, –, Carissa Moore, ”, Gilmore, Moore, Ryan Pierse, ” Moore Organizations: CNN, League, USA, Paris, New York Times, Times Locations: Australian, Oahu, Tahiti, Shore

☆ An Olympic Champion Goes in Search of a New Identity
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( John Branch | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

There is a shelf at Carissa Moore’s home in Honolulu where she keeps her journals. This year, knowing that she was going to retire from competition, she wrote a new goal: Face your fears. She is a five-time world champion and current defender of an Olympic gold medal. Now she wants to start a family with her husband, Luke Untermann. She wants to be challenged in a different way, even though the easiest thing might be to stick around.

Persons: Moore, Luke Untermann Locations: Honolulu

☆ Caroline Marks: How surfer capitalized on a ‘special connection with the ocean’ to win her first surfing world title
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-03 | by ( George Ramsay | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

Marks celebrates winning the world title at Lower Trestles in California. Pat Nolan/World Surf League/Getty Images“I feel like I had a special connection with the ocean already that day, and my board felt amazing,” says Marks. But for Marks, winning the world title was the culmination of years of hard work, a goal that had formed in her mind even before she became the youngest surfer to qualify for the Championship Tour aged 15. But this year’s world title, Marks says, was even more satisfying after last season’s four-month absence from competitions. “The world title to me was my biggest goal ever,” says Marks, who won the Tahiti Pro event in August.

Persons: Caroline Marks, Marks, Carissa Moore, Tyler Wright –, ” Marks, idolize Moore, Moore, Pat Nolan, ”, “, Caitlin Simmers, Wright, Kelly Slater, Marks “, Ryan Pierse, –, I’ve, that’s, “ I’d, She’s, Mike Parsons, “ She’s, Marks hasn’t, there’s, Matt Dunbar, She’ll, gunning Organizations: CNN, CNN Sport, women’s, SHISEIDO Tahiti Pro, Tokyo, Kyodo, Tokyo Games, Tahiti Locations: Trestles, Southern California, Florida, California, Melbourne Beach, Tahiti –

☆ Caroline Marks: American surfer wins her first surfing world title, defeating Olympic champion
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-10 | by ( Issy Ronald | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +1 min

CNN —American surfer Caroline Marks won her first world title on Saturday, defeating Olympic champion and five-time world champion Carissa Moore. On her way to the World Surf League final, the 21-year-old defeated fellow American Caitlin Simmers and Australia’s Tyler Wright before taking on Moore in the gold-medal match. “There’s definitely going to be a massive party after this and everyone is invited!” Marks told the WSL afterwards. Pat Nolan/World Surf League/Getty ImagesMarks became just the fourth women’s world champion in the last 15 years, after Moore, Wright and Stephanie Gilmore have dominated the sport. Marks also qualified for the 2024 Olympics with her world title win, securing the final spot available for the USA through the WSL Championship Tour.

Persons: Caroline Marks, Carissa Moore, Caitlin Simmers, Australia’s Tyler Wright, Moore, “ There’s, ” Marks, Marks, Pat Nolan, Wright, Stephanie Gilmore Organizations: CNN, Olympic, Surf, Getty, USA Locations: American, Florida, California

Sept 9 (Reuters) - American surfer Caroline Marks powered her way to her first world title on Saturday, while Brazil's Filipe Toledo went back-to-back to claim his second championship with a hard-fought win over surprise finalist Ethan Ewing from Australia. Toledo, however, showed once again his mastery of his adopted home break, combining his own searing turns with high-risk aerials to edge Ewing 2-0 and retain his title. Marks, already a five-year world tour veteran at 21, overcame Hawaii's five-time world champion and Olympic gold medallist Carissa Moore in the women's final. Everyone from Florida and from San Clemente has been supporting me, I just can't believe it," Marks said after her win. The win breaks the stranglehold that Moore, Wright and Australia's Steph Gilmore have had on the world title since 2007, and confirms Marks' place alongside Moore in the U.S. surfing team for the Paris Olympics in Tahiti next year.

Persons: Caroline Marks, Brazil's Filipe Toledo, Ethan Ewing, Ewing, Brazil's Joao Chianca, Griffin Colapinto, Toledo, Marks, Carissa Moore, Caitlin Simmers, Tyler Wright, Moore, San Clemente, Wright, Steph Gilmore, Hugh Lawson Organizations: Toledo ., Paris, Lincoln, Thomson Locations: American, Australia, Tahiti, Lower Trestles, Southern, Toledo . Toledo, Toledo, San Clemente, Florida, San, U.S, Sydney

Ahead of the contest, Australian Ethan Ewing experienced Teahupo'o's ferocity, fracturing two vertebrae during a warmup and putting the world No. 3 in doubt for the one-day Rip Curl WSL Finals in California next month to decide a world champion. The win gives Robinson the remaining spot at next month's Finals to go with his Olympic qualification secured earlier in the competition. Medina just missed out on both the Finals and the Brazil Olympic team. Simmers or Marks will qualify along with reigning world and Olympic champion Carissa Moore on Team USA depending on their final ranking after the Finals at Lower Trestles in San Clemente.

Persons: Jack Robinson, Caroline Marks, Caitlin Simmers, Marks, Teahupo'o, Ethan Ewing, Robinson, Medina, pip Medina, Carissa Moore, Joao Chianca, Griffin Colapinto, John John Florence, Leonardo Fioravante, Kanoa Igarashi, Jordy Smith, Matthew McGillivray, Moore, Tyler Wright, Molly Picklum, Tatiana Weston, Johanne Defay, Brisa Hennessy, Teresa Bonvalot, Jamie Freed Organizations: Tahiti Pro, Wednesday, Paris Olympics, Olympic, Brazil Olympic, Team USA, Lower, MEN Filipe Toledo, Lincoln, Thomson Locations: California, Western Australia, Lower Trestles, San Clemente, Brazil, USA, Australia, Italy, Japan, South Africa, Webb, France, Costa Rica, Portugal, CALIFORNIA, Toledo, Hawaii, Sydney

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