Carissa Moore

Carissa Moore is an American surfer who grew up in Hawaii and was born on August 27, 1992. She started surfing with her father at Waikiki around the age of five, collected a record 11 amateur titles in National Scholastic Surfing Association competitions and, at 16 in 2008, became the youngest champion at a Triple Crown of Surfing event when she won the Reef Hawaiian Pro. She qualified for the World Surf League Championship Tour in 2010, was named Rookie of the Year, and in 2011 won her first world title at 18, the youngest surfer of either sex to do so. Further world titles came in 2013, 2015, 2019 and 2021, five in all. At the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo she became the first Olympic gold medallist in women's shortboard surfing, beating South Africa's Bianca Buitendag in the final, and she was the first surfer to win a WSL title and the Olympic title in the same year.