Australian Molly Picklum stared down a pumping Teahupo'o and came out the other side to sit one win away from a maiden world surfing title.
Murray Wenzel
Local surfing prodigy Willow Hardy has fallen just short at the Rip Curl Cup in Bali, but only enhanced her reputation after tackling some huge swells at Bali’s Bukit Peninsula.
Jake Santa Maria
Ethan Ewing and Jack Robinson are into the round of 16 at the Tahiti Pro, where places in the top-five World Surf League Finals are on the line.
Melissa Woods
Australian world No.1 surfer Molly Picklum says 12-year-old local Kelia Gallina is ready to make history at the Tahiti Pro.
Roger Vaughan
Great Southern surfers were on show among WA’s top stand-up paddle-boarding talent in Geraldton on July 28, with Denmark father-daughter Isi and Peter Campbell emerging as dual champions.
Jacki Elezovich
World Surf League is to update its format for 2026, the 50th anniversary season of pro surfing, with more women, an enhanced finale - and an Australian start.
Glenn Moore
Emotions ran high at the opening of the Great Southern’s first artificial surf reef on Wednesday as the project’s key movers and shakers reflected on the hard-won fight to establish the reef.
Melissa Sheil
Molly Picklum has missed out on another World Surf League crown in South Africa, but Australian-born Japanese surfer Connor O'Leary took out the men's event.
Ian Chadband
After more than 30 years of campaigning, Albany surfers finally got to ride their Middleton Beach waves as the Southern Ocean Surf Reef officially opened on Wednesday.
Ethan Ewing is the lone Australlan surfer left in the men's field at J-Bay, with three compatriots looming large in the women's draw.
Three Australian women are through to the quarter-finals of the WSL event in Jeffreys Bay, South Africa, with two Aussies in the men's round of 16.
Staff Writers
A dominant first-round win in South Africa has assured Australia's series leader Molly Picklum a spot in the season-ending, five-woman World Surf League final.
Molly Picklum will wear the rankings leader's yellow jersey at J-Bay, but a number of Australians need to go deep in South Africa ahead of the WSL Finals.
Australia's Molly Picklum has celebrated going top of the WSL Tour standings in perfect fashion, taking out the Vivo Rio Pro in Brazil.
Ethan Ewing and Molly Picklum will go for glory on a busy final day of the Vivo Rio Pro after weather conditions wiped out the penultimate day's competition.
There aren’t many sports where the people covering the action also need to go into training before an event. But there also aren’t many sports like the World Surf League.
Rourke Walsh
Australian Molly Picklum will wear the yellow jersey as the rankings leader after advancing to the final four of the Rio Pro in Brazil.
Australian surfer Molly Picklum has a chance to take over the rankings lead when competition finally gets under way in Brazil.
With only two events before the World Surf League Finals, Jack Robinson and Ethan Ewing need to win their elimination rounds to stay in touch with the top five.
Molly Picklum's strong form has continued with the Australian the world's only top-five surfer to advance to the quarter-finals at the Rio Pro.
Australian Molly Picklum had one of the waves of the season on the way to the Trestles Pro final to solidify a top-five spot in the World Surf League.
Jack Robinson, Ethan Ewing and rookie Joel Vaughan are into the quarters at Lower Trestles, while Molly Picklum has made the final four of the WSL competition.
World No.3 Molly Picklum and fellow Australian surfer Jack Robinson won their round-one heats on the opening day of the Trestles Pro in California.
When you listen to Joe Turpel call surfing it’s clear he was made for the job. It’s little wonder that after almost two decades of commentating, he’s now known as “the voice of surfing”.
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