Sally Fitzgibbons

Sally Fitzgibbons is an Australian professional surfer, born on 19 December 1990 and raised on the New South Wales coast at Gerroa. She was one of the youngest surfers ever to win an Association of Surfing Professionals Pro Junior event and qualified for the elite women's World Tour in her first attempt at the qualifying series, finishing fifth in her rookie season of 2009. She was runner-up in the world title race in 2010, 2011 and 2012, and between 2011 and 2012 she won a run of tour events at Bells Beach, Taranaki, the US Open of Surf and Rio. Before surfing took over she also competed in athletics and won middle-distance gold at the 2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival. She qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where she lost in the quarterfinal and finished fifth, and she holds three International Surfing Association World titles, the most of any female surfer.