Claire Bevilacqua

Claire Bevilacqua, nicknamed Bevo, is a professional surfer from Perth, Western Australia, born on 29 January 1983 to an Australian mother and an Italian father. She took up surfing at fourteen after skateboarding from a young age, and in 2003 she won the State Champion title and the Australian Pro Junior Women's Champion title. She joined the World Championship Tour of the Association of Surfing Professionals in 2004, ranked tenth on it in 2005 and sixth in 2006, and later took a year away from competition to write, shoot and film for sponsors. She returned in 2009 and won the Women's Pipeline Pro in Hawaii, which moved her to third on the World Qualifying Series. She also appeared in ESPN The Magazine's 2009 Body Issue.