American surfer Caroline Marks won her first world title on Saturday, defeating Olympic champion and five-time world champion Carissa Moore. https://www.worldsurfleague.com/pages/history
American surfer Caroline Marks won her first world title on Saturday, defeating Olympic champion and five-time world champion Carissa Moore. On her way to the World Surf League final, the 21-year-old defeated fellow American Caitlin Simmers and Australia’s Tyler Wright before taking on Moore in the gold-medal match. There, she won the first two heats comfortably scoring 17.10 and 14.60 out of a maximum 20 points.
My family, they’re everything to me and the fact they’re all here, it’s the biggest dream ever.” “This whole week has been magical and everyone from Florida has been supporting me and I can’t believe it,” she added. Marks became just the fourth women’s world champion in the last 15 years, after Moore, Wright and Stephanie Gilmore have dominated the sport.
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