Matt Formston is arguably the world’s greatest blind surfer. Diagnosed with Macular Dystrophy at age five, Matt has lived life with only three percent of his vision. But it hasn’t slowed him down. In fact, it has...
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Byron Bay to host the Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championship
Bryon Bay will host the Australian Pro Adaptive Surfing Championship between March 26 - 30 in a huge win for the region. The event will be an official stop on the Adaptive Surfing Professionals World Championship...
2024 ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship – Team announce
Surfing Australia is excited to announce the three surfers who will represent Australia at the 2024 ISA World SUP and Paddleboard Championship in Copenhagen, Denmark next month. Kobe Schulz (Mermaid...
Champions crowned at the Ingenia Australian Para Surfing Titles
Five new Australian Para Surfing champions have been crowned at the Ingenia Australian Para Surfing Titles on the last day of the Hyundai High Performance Centre Australian Surf Championships at North Haven in the Port...
Testing conditions at Club North Haven Shortboard Titles
The 2024 Australian Shortboard Titles got underway at North Haven with Open Men's heats contested in clean 2-3ft waves just north of the break wall. New South Welshman Josh Stretton top-scored in round one of the Open...
PARIS 2024: Robinson secures surfing silver for Australia
Jack Robinson has claimed Australia's best-ever result in Olympic surfing, a silver medal, after falling to local Kauli Vaast in the gold medal match in Tahiti. The Margaret River-raised surfer beat Gabriel Medina of...
PARIS 2024: Robinson will surf for gold after Teahupo’o semi win
Jack Robinson will go for gold in the Olympic surfing after stunning Brazilian Gabriel Medina in their semi-final. The Western Australian pulled out a mighty barrel run at Tahiti's Teahupo'o break to lock up a medal....
PARIS 2024: Lay day in Tahiti ahead of finals
With finals for surfing at the #Paris24 Olympics called off for another day in Tahiti, Team Australia has been exploring this beautiful island paradise. We now expect a Monday finals day with the schedule yet to be...
PARIS 2024: Robinson wins all-Aussie matchup
Jack Robinson is eyeing off an Olympic medal, after defeating Ethan Ewing in a stunning all-Australian surfing quarterfinal. Despite seeing his 2024 Olympic dreams come to an end, it was Ewing who earned...
Champions crowned at the 2024 Ingenia Australian Bodyboard Titles
Team New South Wales dominated as champions were crowned at the 2024 Ingenia Australian Bodyboard Titles on another day of solid conditions at North Haven. Well overhead waves and offshore wind held in until after...
PARIS 2024: Wright waits as rough swell pushes out surfing
Australians Tyler Wright, Jack Robinson and Ethan Ewing will spend another day on the beach after Olympic surfing was postponed due to heavy swells. The infamous Teahupo'o break in French Polynesia is hosting the Paris...
PARIS 2024: Behind the scenes with our Aussie surfers
With Olympic surfing on hold for a second day in a row, we've put together some photo highlights of what the Aussie team get up to on their lay days in paradise... All images: Surfing Australia / Jo-Jo...
PARIS 2024: Ewing, Robinson in all-Aussie quarterfinal
The Olympic men's surfing will be an all-Australian quarterfinal with Jack Robinson and Ethan Ewing to meet in the round of eight.The event is currently on hold due to poor weather so we've put...
PARIS 2024: Robinson beats world No.1 Florence in Olympic surfing
Australian Jack Robinson has sent world No.1 John John Florence home from the Olympic surfing competition, riding tough in their round-of-16 clash. In deteriorating conditions that forced the women's heats to be...
PARIS 2024: Robinson tames the Teahupo’o dragon to progress
Australian star Jack Robinson has turned in the best wave of the Olympic surfing on his way into the last 16 in Tahiti. Molly Picklum wasn't so lucky, surviving a run-in with the reef but not her heat, exiting the...
PARIS 2024: Teahupo’o proves too fickle for surfing’s Picklum
Molly Picklum has survived a run-in with the reef but not her Olympics surfing heat, exiting the competition in the second round at Teahupo'o. Frenchwoman Johanne Defay edged the Australian star on Monday morning...
PARIS 2024: Ewing, Wright win first Olympic heats
Ethan Ewing has shown no fear on his return to the same waves that broke his back last year, qualifying for the third round of Olympic surfing. The Queenslander fractured two vertebrae in 2023 at the feared Teahupo'o...
PARIS 2024: Ewing through to Round 3, Robinson pipped
Ethan Ewing has returned to the same wave where he broke his back last year to qualify for the third round of Olympic surfing. The Queenslander fractured two vertebrae in 2023 at the feared Teahupo'o break in Tahiti,...