When did surfing become an Olympic sport? Surfing became an Olympic sport for the first time during the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, held in 2021, with events off of Tsurigasaki Beach in Japan. Japan has won ...

Dana Point’s Rachael Tilly has twice taken the runner-up, silver medal spot – but this time, the surfer rode her way to gold. The longboard surfer clinched a gold medal win at the 2025 International ...

Reigning world champion Caroline Marks surfed to a gold medal Monday in waters off the coast of Teahupo'o, Tahiti, triumphing over Brazilian Tatiana Weston-Webb following days of weather delays. The ...

But it was his compatriot, 16-year-old Ocean Lancaster of Newcastle, New South Wales, who won the Rip Curl GromSearch International Final as an online wildcard a month ago, who sealed the deal in the ...

Olympic organizers made a big bet in holding the 2024 Paris Olympics surfing competition at an ominous location in French Polynesia nearly 10,000 miles from Paris, with pretty much no space for ...

American Carissa Moore won the first women’s surfing shortboard event in Olympic history, taking down South Africa’s Bianca Buitendag, 14.93- 8.46 in the gold medal match. The beginning of the match ...

Caroline Marks is the last hope for the U.S. after Carissa Moore was unable to advance to the semifinals. All the important ...

What country has the most medals for surfing at the Olympics? Japan has won two medals total for surfing at the Olympics, with Kanoa Igarashi winning a silver medal in the men's event in Tokyo, and ...