Mathea Olin

Mathea Dempfle-Olin, known as Mathea Olin, is a Canadian surfer born on 2 February 2003 in Canmore, Alberta. She moved at the age of six to Tofino, British Columbia, where she began surfing, and she started competing at ten. She was also a gymnast and dreamed of the Olympics in that sport until surfing was added to the 2020 Summer Olympics. As a 14 year old she won Canada's first international surfing medals, a gold in longboard and a bronze in shortboard at the 2017 Pan American Surf Games, and she later won bronze in the women's longboard at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru. In 2017 she became the first surfer supported by the Petro-Canada FACE program, and her sister Sanoa is also a competitive surfer.