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Aussie great Gilmore delivers at home surf break

Stephanie Gilmore has used her local knowledge to bank a breakthrough win in her return to the World Surf League, with Australians lighting up day one.

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Back at 'perfect wave', Gilmore leans on surf IQ

Superb swell is expected when the World Surf League's top tour returns to Snapper Rocks, where Stephanie Gilmore has won six times, after a seven-year gap.

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‘I’m frothing’: George Pittar breaks eight-year surfing duck at Margaret River Pro

The Australian hadn’t won a competition since he was 15 but stunned Brazilian great Gabriel Medina in the final in WA to claim his first World Surf League title

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Aussie Pittar stuns world champion at Margaret River

Australian George Pittar has the chance to claim his maiden World Surf League tour win after making it through to the semi-finals of the Margaret River Pro.

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Aussie great denied in pumping Margaret River surf

Canadian surfing rising star Erin Brooks claimed a major local scalp as the Margaret River Pro opened on Thursday with six- to eight-foot conditions.

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Picklum falls short in decider, Hawaiian ace rings bell

Hawaii's Gabriela Bryan continued her head to head dominance over Molly Picklum as she defeated Australia's surfing world champion in the Bells Beach final.

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‘We’ll start a creche’: how the World Surf League is becoming family friendly for parents on tour

The tour brings in maternity wildcard and parental leave, with surfers saying it is a ‘huge step in the right direction’ and ‘so sick’ for the sport

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Pain-free Robinson ready for Bells Beach title defence

Jack Robinson used the long World Surf League off-season to have overdue knee surgery and is fit and firing as he defends his Bells Beach title.

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Surfers excited as new-look tour kicks off at Bells

The world's best surfers will finally hit the water at Bells Beach, with the Championship Tour competition set to get under way next week.

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My surf addiction didn’t need more fuel. Then I found the WSL third-tier live stream

The Qualifying Series is the lowest rung on the competitive World Surf League ladder but the next generation has sucked me in with their talent

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Aussie surf legend locks in tour return

Stephanie Gilmore will take up a World Surf League wildcard with the eight-time world champion returning to the tour in 2026 after a two-year hiatus.

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Aussies rule the waves with another world surfing crown

Australia's Kai Ellice-Flint has won his maiden world title, clinching the men's longboard crown with victory in the World Surf League final in El Salvador.

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Aussie surfers dominate on World Surf Games stage

Dane Henry could be Australia's next big surf star after the teenager won the men's event at the World Surfing Games while still holding the junior crown.

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Picklum's full-circle moment on path to surf title

Starting out as a grom on the Central Coast in NSW, Molly Picklum believes she's just getting started after winning her first World Surf League title.

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Picklum joins Australian greats as world surf champion

Taking the title in Fiji, Molly Picklum has joined the likes of Stephanie Gilmore, Tyler Wright and Layne Beachley in becoming a surfing world champion.

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Surfing's GOAT tips Robinson for Cloudbreak glory

The World Surf League finals are set to begin on Tuesday at Fiji's Cloudbreak, with the great Kelly Slater tipping Jack Robinson to start with a bang.

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'Spanner in the works': surf star researching new venue

The World Surf League finals in Fiji could switch to a different - less familiar - break, prompting competitors to do their homework.

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Aussies have the Wright stuff to win surf world titles

Owen Wright made World Surf League history with two perfect heats to win at Cloudbreak, and thinks Molly Picklum and Jack Robinson can also leave their mark.

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Picklum looking to follow path of Aussie surfing legend

Molly Picklum says Australia deserves another world champion as she looks to follow surfing legend Stephanie Gilmore, with the title going on the line in Fiji.

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Good golly: Molly one win from title after Tahiti test

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.

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Aussie surfers remain alive in high-stakes Tahiti Pro

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.

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Kelia Mehani Gallina: the 12-year-old girl staring down monster waves at Teahupo’o

The young Tahiti surfer will become the WSL’s youngest competitor when she takes on the fearsome break she can see from her family home

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Revamped surf league to launch on Australian shores

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.

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Hesitant Picklum misses chance of World Surf League win

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.

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Ewing into J-Bay quarters as surfing finals loom

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.

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