Pauline Ado

Pauline Ado is a French professional surfer born on 14 February 1991 in Bayonne, in the Basque country of south-western France. She won two junior championships in 2005, and in 2009, at the age of 17, she became the first surfer from outside Australia to win a junior world championship. By 2016 she ranked ninth on the Qualifying Series, the second tier of the professional tour that feeds the elite circuit, and in 2016 she won a bronze medal for France at the ISA World Surfing Games held at Playa Jaco in Costa Rica. She represented France in the Olympic surfing event, which joined the Games in 2020. Her record shows a surfer who rose from the French junior ranks to international competition over more than a decade.