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Similo Dlamini, who has only one fully functioning leg due to a birth defect, has found her niche in swimming and surfing

Tracy McKay is among a team of nine Team SA para surfing athletes who travelled – often solo on multiple 24-hour-plus journeys – to represent their country at the World Para Surfing Championship a few weeks after the gees of the Bok victory in Paris. 

Athletes are required to cough up about R70,000 to compete in the World Para Surfing Championships in the US next month.

It was the first time the event returned to Muizenberg since the inaugural SA Para Surf Championships in 2017 and was the first stop of the newly launched Global Para Surf League.

Surfing burst onto the Olympic calendar at the last Games in Tokyo in 2021 and will also feature when Paris hosts in 2024.

The contest not only saw the best of South Africa rise to the podium, but was also the first stop and the first-of-its-kind Para Surfing Continental Zone Championships.

California dreaming: Para surf hopefuls eye Los Angeles Olympics

Under perfect California skies, Liv Stone elegantly flips her board into the hollow of a wave, perfectly executing the kind of move this disabled surfer would love to replicate at the 2028 Los Angeles…

Under perfect California skies, Liv Stone elegantly flips her board into the hollow of a wave, perfectly executing the kind of move this disabled surfer would

A team of para surfers across the country is hoping to make waves at the World Championships in Pismo, California, in December.