Sofía Mulánovich

Sofía Mulánovich Aljovín, born on 24 June 1983 in Punta Hermosa, Lima, is a Peruvian surfer and three-time world surfing champion, with one World Surf League title and two International Surfing Association world titles. In 2004 she won three of the six World Championship Tour events and became the first Latin American woman to win the world title, as well as the first Peruvian to win a World Championship Tour event; the same year she won the ISA championship in Salinas, Ecuador, and she won the ISA title again in Miyazaki, Japan in 2019. She won the Vans Triple Crown of Surfing and the U.S. Open of Surfing, was inducted into the Surfers Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach in 2007 and the Surfing Walk of Fame in 2015, won an ESPY for Best Action-Sports Athlete in 2005, and opened a surfing academy for young people in Punta Hermosa in 2015.