Australian surfers Tyler Wright, Isabella Nichols and Molly Picklum have reached the quarter-finals as the Pipe Pro resumed in Hawaii after a week of delays.
Roger Vaughan
The pressure is mounting for waves at Banzai Pipeline as the wait for the season-opening World Surf League competition to resume drags on.
Melissa Woods
Competition at the World Surf League's season-opening event at Hawaii's Banzai Pipeline remains on hold but organisers say better surf conditions are forecast.
Iron Series young guns Conner Maggs and Lucy Derbyshire have upstaged veterans Ali Day and Lana Rogers to win maiden titles in the men's and women's categories.
Joanna Guelas
Hawaii's Pipe Pro, the first round of the World Surf Tour, will stay on hold for at least one more day because of unfavourable conditions.
Defending champion Ali Day laughs that the dramatic overhaul of the Iron Series final is encouraging his downfall, but has backed himself to win anyway.
Murray Wenzel
The season-opening Pipe Pro has been put on hold with a major storm forecast to hit Hawaii's North Shore.
Australians Jack Robinson and Tyler Wright have delivered benchmark performances in the first round of the Pipe Pro, to kick off the World Surf League season.
He’s the WA-raised surfer quite literally making it on the world stage and now Jack Robinson could have yet another accolade to add to a glittering 2024.
Rourke Walsh
With 10 Australians ready for action, the season-opening Pipe Pro in Hawaii is on hold, with World Surf Leagues organisers waiting for better conditions.
Australian hope Jack Robinson will enjoy some locational perks when the new-look World Surf League season begins in Hawaii this week.
Murray Wenzel and Joanna Guelas
Australia's Jack Robinson says it would be a mistake to underestimate his World Surf League rivals in the absence of John John Florence at the Pipe Pro.
Australia's eight-time surfing world champion Steph Gilmore could be lured back on Tour if there's a chance to add another title, says Molly Picklum.
Australia's eight-time surfing world champion Stephanie Gilmore has made a late call not to return to the WSL Championship Tour this year.
Murray Wenzel and Neil Harvey
Three-time world champion and Olympic bronze medallist Gabriel Medina will miss the start of the World Surfing League after suffering a chest muscle injury.
Staff Writers
As 2024 draws to a close The West Australian looks back on who grabbed the headlines as we countdown the top WA athletes for 2024.
Jake Santa Maria
A troupe of older women who get out into the Middleton Beach surf every Friday morning to ride the waves celebrated a quarter-century of surfing last week.
Melissa Sheil
What do you get when two surf icons collide?
Kellie Balaam
Works on Albany’s first artificial surf reef are officially under way as equipment arrives and preparations begin to create the reef’s rock material.
‘It’s such an untouched part of Australia with raw coastline, empty beaches, fun waves, and of course - wineries.’
Megan French
Tom Carroll has been injured while surfing in Sydney.
Ben McClellan
With women's surfing booming, the World Surf League will add another six spots to the 2026 Championship Tour, but it hasn't made a call on the mid-season cut.
Jack Robinson lifting Australian surfing to new Olympic heights has seen the Magaret River local crowned as WA’s male Surfer of the Year.
Denmark surf star Isi Campbell added more silverware to her already glistening cabinet after taking out the open women’s national stand-up paddle board title in Victoria last week.
Harry Grigson