Owen Wright

Owen Wright is an Australian professional surfer who competes on the World Surf League Championship Tour, the elite men's circuit that was known as the Association of Surfing Professionals before it was renamed. Born on 16 January 1990, he grew up at Culburra Beach on the south coast of New South Wales in a family of surfers that includes his sister Tyler Wright, a two-time women's world champion, and his brother Mikey, who also competes on the tour. He won the Australian title in 2007, qualified for the Championship Tour in 2009 and was named Rookie of the Year after ranking seventh in his 2010 debut season. In 2015 he became the first surfer to post two perfect scores in a single event, at the Fiji Pro, but a wipeout at Banzai Pipeline that December caused a traumatic brain injury and a year of recovery. He returned in 2017 to win the opening event at Snapper Rocks, and at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games he won Australia's first Olympic bronze medal in surfing.