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Caroline Marks Wins Olympic Gold Medal 

USA wins back-to-back Women’s Olympic Gold Medals

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Caroline Marks won the 2024 Olympic Women's Surfing Gold Medal in dramatic fashion, clinching the highest score of the final early – a 7.5. The historic Paris 2024 Olympic surfing competition took place at one of the most powerful and dangerous waves in the world – Teahupo’o in French Polynesia’s Tahiti. Caroline pulled into a pristine Teahupo’o barrel, stalled to get covered and came out clean in a Gold Medal final where wave selection and priority played a significant role. 
 
Caroline’s win gives Team USA back-to-back Olympic gold medals after Carissa Moore won the inaugural Olympic women’s surfing gold in Chiba, Japan. Caroline’s Gold was the 21st U.S. medal of the 2024 Paris Games, pushing the U.S. to the top of the medal count.
 
“I’m so honored and so happy, this is just incredible and I’m so emotional," Caroline said. "So happy to do this for my family and everyone back home. Wow, I’m just so happy.”
 
Caroline’s Gold Medal comes on the heels of winning the World Surf League’s world 2024 world title. Caroline qualified for the World Surf League’s Championship Tour when she was just 15 years old and still competing in USA Surfing’s junior Prime Series. Caroline still holds the record for the most USA Surfing Championship wins. 
 
USA Olympic coach Shane Dorian declared “She did it! Super proud of you Caroline! You brought the gold home.” ​

2024 National Junior Team Selection Criteria:  2024_jrnational_team_criteria.docx

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USA Surfing partners with Pactto to boost athlete progress through precise video feedback
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 7, 2023 - USA Surfing, the national governing body for the sport of surfing in the United States, has announced a new partnership with Pactto, a brand-new platform created for coaches and athletes to accelerate progress via precise video feedback. Starting in March 2023, the two organizations will collaborate to deliver an unparalleled surfing training experience focused on the USA Junior team.
 
With this partnership, USA Surfing athletes can use the Pactto mobile app for iOS or Android, as well as www.pactto.com/usasurfing, to submit videos for USA Surfing coaches to review from anywhere, anytime. click here to read more...

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​See the results from USA Surfing Championship at Lower Trestles, where the best U18 surfers battled for national titles
Watch the broadcast replay below.

Carissa Moore:
​Surfing's First Olympic Gold Medalist



Hawaii’s Carissa Moore is the first Gold Medalist of surfing’s first Olympics Games! 
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“It’s a dream come true,” she said. “Winning a Gold Medal for the United States and Hawaii, the birthplace of surfing means everything. Just to see Duke Kahanamoku’s dream of having surfing in the Olympics come true 101 years later is just so special.” 
 
She is the first surfer in history to win a WSL world title and an Olympic Gold Medal in the same year. Read more. 

Watch the 2021 Toyota USA Surfing Championship Replay

More than 250 of the best under 18 surfers from the East and West Coasts and Hawaii gathered at world-renowned Lower Trestles to compete in the Toyota USA Surfing Championship presented by Got Milk? The elite competition will determine national champions and a chance to make USA Surfing’s national teams and compete internationally... Read more​


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