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Triple Paralympic bronze medallist Katja Dedekind of Sippy Downs has been named the University of the Sunshine Coast’s Sportsperson of the Year for

United States’ Carissa Moore eased through her heat at the World Surf League Championship Tour in Rottnest Island, but Tatiana Weston-Webb was forced into the elimination round.

Monday, 19 April 2021 World champion Italo Ferreira of Brazil has been knocked out of the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour event in Narrabeen in Australia after a controversial defeat to the United States' Conner Coffin. On a day with easier to read, smaller, more predictable waves, what was not predictable was Ferreira's early exit from the men's competition. Coffin's power-turns gave him the win against Ferreira's airs, leading to the Brazilian destroying his surfboard against a beach-side shower, followed by a stomp to split it in half in the athletes' locker room, in anger at th...

Italo boosted a massive air to get the win over Griffin Colapinto. Photo: WSL Despite being a replacement event, the surfing hotbed of Newcastle has provided plenty of highlights as the World Surf League gets back underway with its Australian tour. Day Three from the Rip Curl Newcastle Cup is in the books, and with finals day on the near horizon (next call is just three hours away), we’ve already seen plenty of pressure-beating rides, upsets, and the wait has paid off as the surf is now absolutely cookin’. For those who haven’t been glued to their screens like I have the past few days, ...

Charlie Rodrigues is not longer Gabriel Medina’s surf coach. Photo: World Surf League/Kirstin Gabriel Medina is one the savviest competitive surfers on Earth. Hell, he might be the most savvy. He surfs to win, which, in a contest setting, is a good thing. Gabriel Medina recently made what he hopes is a savvy pick, hiring Andy King as his new coach. Ever since Medina first began seriously competing, his step dad Charlie Rodrigues has been the one wearing the coaching hat. Charlie was famously loud, furiously passionate, and likely instilled that take-no-prisoners attitude in the two-time wor...