Karin Larsen · CBC News · Posted: Jul 10, 2024 4:45 PM PDT | Last Updated: July 10 Five-time Para surf world champion Victoria Feige, left, recruited eleven-time world surf champion Kelly Slater, right, to help raise awareness for the campaign to get Para surfing in the 2028 Paralympic Games....
Squad places 9th to meet target; Cody Young might be reserve for Paris Game Canada's Sanoa Demple-Olin, pictured competing at the surfing world championships this week in Puerto Rico, posted the single-highest wave score and heat total, surpassing reigning Olympic gold medallist and five-time world champion...
A battle of North America's emerging talents and event standouts provided a showdown in the Final featuring Watanabe and Hasburgh. Watanabe struck first in the but it was not a wave of scoring consequence as Hasburgh waited for his opportunity to answer holding priority. Hasburgh's...
In defining fashion, Sanoa Dempfle-Olin claimed her maiden WSL Pro Junior victory over a stacked Final including Bella Kenworthy, Talia Swindal, and Reid Van Wagoner. Dempfle-Olin's 8.50 secured her victory and she starts 2024 as North America Pro Junior No. 1. ...
An exclusive interview with the Olympic surfing qualifier. In less than 8 months, 24 men and 24 women will don their 2024 Olympic jerseys and battle it out at one of the world's heaviest lefthanders for a gold, silver, or bronze. Among this ensemble of 48...
Sixteen-year-old Olympic surfing hopeful Erin Brooks is now a Canadian citizen. It's good news for many families and children in the same position The good news arrived Saturday morning: After a protracted battle and initial rejection by Ottawa, 16-year-old surfing phenom Erin Brooks will become a...
2023 has been a wildly successful year for Canadian National Team Surfers who scored 30 International Podiums (ISA, WSL, PASA, PanAmSports) plus 1 Olympian qualified, with 1 more Olympic Qualifier to go! Here are your Canadian All-Star Surfers that hit the podium in 2023: Sanoa Olin -...
Winningest woman in sport's history takes home gold in women's kneel division Canadian Para surfer Victoria Feige continued her reign of dominance by winning her fifth straight world title on Saturday in Huntington Beach, Calif., extending her record for most gold medals at the sport's premier...
Sanoa Dempfle-Olin snagged silver at the 2023 Pan American Games in Chile B.C.'s Sanoa Dempfle-Olin, 18, is the first Canadian surfer to qualify for the Summer Olympics. (Instagram/sanoa_olin) Surfing isn't a sport most people associate with Canada. But when the 2024 Summer Olympics get underway next July, at least...
Sanoa Olin (CAN) and Tokyo 2020 Olympian Lucca Mesinas (PER) qualify for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games Returning Pan American Champions Isabella Gomez (COL), Lucca Mesinas (PER), Connor Baxter (USA) and Benoit ‘Piccolo’ Clemente (PER) win back-to-back gold medals First Pan American gold medals for Tatiana Weston-Webb...
