Pauline Menczer

Pauline Menczer is an Australian surfer, born on 21 May 1970, who was Women's World Champion for Professional Surfing in 1993. She started surfing at about the age of twelve, won the 1988 women's amateur world title in Puerto Rico, and was narrowly beaten for the world championship in 1991 and 1992 by Wendy Botha before winning in 1993, when she qualified for half of the competition finals and won a quarter of all events. She also won the World Qualifying Series in 2002, and over a career of more than twenty years she won 20 World Championship Tour events and 8 World Qualifying Series events, a total only Layne Beachley has bettered. She was inducted into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame in 2018.