Gabriela Bryan and Jordy Smith Win Western Australia Margaret River Pro

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Gabriella Brian Haw and Jordy Smith, RSA won the WA.
Margaret River Pro. Stop #7 on the. 2025.
World Surf League WSL championship tour CT It was a
shorter finals day featuring thesemifinals and finals in slower
conditions at main break, but still delivered standout moments

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and performances from the finalists.
Brian earned back-to-back wins at.
Margaret River with. A commanding showing marking her
second event win of the season, Smith also secured his second
victory of the year. This is a repeat podium for
Brian and Smith as they both claimed victory in El Salvador

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earlier this year. As the only two surfers with two
victories this season, their success further solidifies their
positions on top of the rankings.
As the CT heads to lower trestles in San Clemente,
California, Gabrielle O'Brien goes back-to-back at.
Margaret River earns. 2nd CT winof the season to stay world #1

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Gabrielle O'Brien Hall made it back-to-back victories at the
event that she has come to define in the modern era.
The 23 year old competed in her first CT final in.
Margaret River in. 2022. Doing exactly what she needed to
keep herself on tour and earn the Rookie of the Year title
that season, Brian then earned her first ever CT event win at

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the location. In 2020. 4 before now backing it
up a year later. Having been at risk of the mid
season cut in each previous showing, Brian currently sits in
a very different position in. 2020. 5 Brian returned to WA
wearing the yellow leader jersey, largely thanks to her

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win in El Salvador. Brian will now retain her status
as world #1 headed into stop #8 the Lexus Trestles Pro after her
third CT victory today. It's incredible.
I mean, I tried not to think about going back-to-back, but
how cool it would have been to see my name twice on the stairs,

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one after the other? Brian said.
So yeah, it's a really cool accomplishment.
I don't feel like the world #1 Iam.
But yeah, yellow, wow. I try to just tell myself it's
red, but I'm getting used to it.Every heat I have with it, I get

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more comfortable. I thought I lost it over at
Burley and then to come back with a win and now to wear it at
Lowers. I can't wait to compete there.
I haven't. He competed there since I was a
junior since sharing their firstmajor final together in the.
2021. U.S.
Open of surfing, The pure power of Brian and the style and flow

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of Katie Simmers USA have been distinct contrasts.
Though Simmers career has taken a steeper trajectory since
winning that event, Brian went on to win the Challenger Series
that year more than ever. The 2020.
Five Season is highlighting the fact that the two are defining
modern day performance in surfing, to the point that for

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two events running, the pair have been sitting with equal
points in the rankings. In a battle for who would break
ahead of their deadlock, Brian opened with a near perfect 9.50,
the highest single wave score ofher.
Career earning the. Score through a series of four
full power gouges. Brian quickly backed it up with

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a 7.83 to leave Simmers, the reigning World champion, in need
of a combination of two high scoring waves to take the lead.
Though Simmers had opened up with a 7.17 of her own, the 19
year old was unable to crack into the elevated range of
Brian, who had also earned an excellent 16.34 heat total in

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her semi final defeat of Lakey Peterson USA.
I'm honestly speechless, I don'teven know what to think.
Brian said that 9.50 was just the wave.
I turned around and that thing just came right at me.
I saw the wave and it had a perfect line.

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I just kind of went out there, like just got to surf my heart
out. And that's what I did on that
wave. And then I was lucky enough to
get a backup before it went flat.
So yeah, I'm so stoked. Reigning world champion Katy
Simmers returns to the podium. In Margaret River.

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Katy Simmers USA returned to thepodium for the first time since
winning the second event of the season, the Surf Abu Dhabi Pro,
to appear in her third final this year after a strong start.
In 2025. Simmers had been unable to break
out of the round of 16 in Australia, but returned to form

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in. Margaret River.
Simmers defeated a series of solid performers including Brisa
Hennessy CRC, Luanna Silva BRA and Bronte McAuley AUS to make
her first. Margaret River Pro.
Final with the fast, stylish rail work that has come to be
expected of the. 2020. 4 world champion.

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It was just cool that we got a couple waves in that heat
because it was pretty inconsistent and there actually
ended up being waves in our heat, Simmers said.
But yeah, I think we have two different styles of surfing, and
we both can get good scores fromit.
That's the beauty of surfing. There's not a straightforward

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way to do it. And Gabriella Bryan just won
fair and square. There was no other way to put
it. But yeah, it's really fun to
watch. I had a perfect view of both of
her waves. After I got my waves, I just
turned around and she's getting the 9.50 and then her next wave

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2. I literally watched both of them
from paddling out and I was justlike, well whatever.
Jordy Smith furthers world titlecampaign with WA Victory leads
men SCT Field heading into Lowers Competing in his 18th
season on Tour, Jordy Smith RSA has claimed a second CT win

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within the same season for the first time of his long tenure.
Since winning his first CT in eight years in El Salvador, the
37 year old has continued his exceptional form to now sit with
a strong lead in the rankings asworld #1 having previously
placed runner up to the world title in 2010 and 2016.

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Smith has been in the title conversation for much of his
career and now sits in the primeposition to deliver on that
promise. Smith has previously won three
of the four remaining regular season events, two of those he
has won twice, both in locationsthat he has called home,
Tressels and JB. It feels incredible.

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I think it's just a testament tolike every day, keep showing up,
trusting what you're doing. Smith said.
I can't just say that I've been doing all the work.
I've got such a great team of people behind me.
For me this year, it's just really been about have fun and
enjoy this because it's not forever.

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I think everyone's going to be fighting for that top five now.
There's a lot of guys that are swinging for it, so that's going
to be really exciting and I think just having that
opportunity to kind of push yourself against all the best in
the world is all I'm really looking for.
And yeah, take every day for what it is and don't think too

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far down the line. After moving through an
extremely wide range of conditions, from huge unruly
main break to slab perfection atthe box, the Men S final was
decided in small, inconsistent surf that saw only three waves
ridden with two previous. Margaret River Pro.

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Runners up Smith and Griffin Cola Pinto USA battling for
their first event win. A fiery exchange was expected
but quite the opposite took place.
Smith opened with the single defining wave of the final an
8.50. Earned through a.
Variety of maneuvers, echoing the type of surfing the South

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African had delivered throughoutthe event and across his long
career. Meanwhile, after opening early
with a 4.83 Cola, Pinto dropped anchor waiting for a wave that
never arrived and closed his account with just a single
score. I'm so stoked, Brew Smith said.

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It's been a lot this week, a lotthis last two or three months.
Two people I want to dedicate itto.
Obviously, my family first and foremost, my wife, my mother, my
father, my sister, and my two sons.
And then this is for Jack McCoy.He passed away just recently.

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It's someone that's inspired me throughout my whole life.
All his movies, his videos, his family.
This is for you guys. I'm sending all my love and
prayers are with you guys. Griffin Colapinto vaults backup
CT rankings with first final of.2025.

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Season Griffin Colapinto USA again proved himself to be one
of the most consistent surfers in WA.
The 26 year old has made at least quarterfinals every season
in the event. Since 2020.
One finishing runner up for the first time in. 2023.

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Entering the GWM, Aussie travel ranked 26th and in danger of the
mid season cut. Cola Pinto rose 15 places across
the three events to now sit at #11 one place outside of the top
10. After making his first final of
the season, Cola Pinto delivereda highlight reel of performances

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throughout the event, including a perfect 10 for one of the most
impressive full rotation air reverses delivered in
competition and a 9.00 for a mind blowing exit from a box
barrel. The Californian will now return
home to San Clemente for stop #8, his first chance to compete
in a regular season CT event at his home break of Lower

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Trestles. When we got in the.
Water. I was having flashbacks to when
I was, I must have been like 13 or 14 up at like 1:00 AM
watching Jordy Smith win Jay BayCola, Pinto said.
And I was staying up watching him win that and then Modern
Collective and that being like my favorite movie ever.

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And then to us in a final together is just a cool chain of
events, you know, overtime. So yeah, super grateful and
psyched to see Jordy back on topand doing his thing again.
Guys, one of my favorite surferscoming into this event.
I was a little bit nervous aboutthe cut.

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Both my brother and I were on the bubble, so to get past that,
it just feels like we're playingwith house money and the weights
off our shoulders. I'm so excited to be going home
and feeling that way in a repeatof the. 2020. 4 Mio.
RIP Curl Pro Portugal The Colapinto brothers missed out on

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a shared final by one heat. In both events, The brothers
Griffin and Crosby Colapinto USAmoved through the event on
opposite sides of the draw all the way to the semifinals before
the younger brother Crosby was eliminated and the older Griffin
progressed into the final. Bronte McCauley earns excellent

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3rd place result in Wild card run The two standout surfers
from the women's quarterfinals, Bronte Macaulay AUS and Lakey
Peterson USA, were unable to tapinto the same rhythm that saw
them post some of the highest numbers of the previous round.
The strong showing in the event for Macaulay was a fitting

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finish to the career of the local wild card and former CT
veteran who had stated that thiswould likely be her last time in
the competition jersey at the CTlevel.
Currently studying to be a teacher, McCauley is now pouring
her energy into coaching the next generation of women from
WA. Isabella Nichols and Jordy Smith

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win inaugural GWM Aussie Travel The GWM Aussie Travel culminated
at the WA. Margaret River.
Pro After moving through two other Australian states with the
RIP Curl Pro, Bells Beach and Bond Soy Gold Coast Pro, the
inaugural trophies were handed to Isabella Nichols AUS and
Jordy Smith RSA, along with keysto a brand new GWM Tank 300 as

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the winners of the series that collected points from across the
three events. Winning an event in Australia,
let alone winning the treble, issuper, super special, Nichols
said. I couldn't have done it without
everyone here supporting me. I want to dedicate this win to
my sister, the newlyweds, Helenaand George.

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Also thanks to my family for being here, Mike McAuliffe for
housing us, Kurt Jacobs, Bottle,J Thompson, everyone who's been
in my corner. I couldn't have done this
without everyone's support and also everyone here in WA.
Thanks for the love. We always love coming here.

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Thanks for hosting such an incredible event.
For more information and highlights from the. 2020.
Five WA. Margaret River Pro.
Please visit worldsurfleague.com.
Championship Tour re qualification and relegation the
WA. Margaret River.
Pro marks the final stop before the mid season cut a pivotal

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moment in the. 2025. CT season where the field is
reduced for the back half of thetour and crucial to.
Determine 2020. 6 CT re Qualification Following this
event, only the top 22 men and top ten women on the court
rankings will advance to the next 4 events, earning their
place at iconic venues like Jaybe and Tiaupua.

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For those who make the cut, it'sa major step toward world title
contention and the WSL finals inFiji.
For others, it's the end of their CT run for. 2025.
And the start of the battle to reque Lifey for 2026 through the
Challenger Series. The 2020. 5 Challenger Series

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will begin in Newcastle, Australia on June 2nd. 2025.
And hold a competition window through June 8th.
View the. 2025. Challenger Series Schedule Women
S made the Cut Gabriella Brian Haw Katie Simmers USA Molly

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Picklom AUS Isabella Nichols AUSTyler Wright AUS Caroline Marks
USA Vetalo Sakura Johnson Haw Lou Anna Silva Bra Lakey
Peterson USA Aaron Brooks Can miss The cut Will not continue.

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To 2025 CT. Back half qualified.
For 2020. 6 CT Sawyer Lindblood,USA Vahine Fiero frat.
Bella Kenworthy, USA Brisa Hennessy CRC Relegated to the
Challenger Series Sally Fitzgibbons AUS Johanna de Fay

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Frat Tatiana Weston Webb bra. Nadia Eurastar BSP Menace made
the cut Jordy Smith RSA Italo Ferreira bra.
Yago Dora Bra Kanoei Garashi JPNVeron, Mamila Haw Ethan Ewing

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AUS Philippe Toledo bra. Jack Robinson AUS Leonardo
Fiorevante, ETA Miguel Pupo Bra Griffin Cola Pinto USA Jake
Marshall, USA Rio Weda Ina Connor O'Leary, JPN.

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Marco Mignotfrat, Crosby Cola Pinto USA Allen Cleland, Mex.
Joe Alkayenko Bra Joel Von AUS. Seth Monizhawk, Cole Hushman,
USA Holly Holm, Eunice Bra Missed the Cut Relegated to

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Challenger Series Matthew Mcgillivray RSA Liam O'Brien AUS
Jackson Bunch Haw George Pitar AUS Ian Guvia Bra Samuel Pupo,
Bra Himachalani, Duvald, Hawk Divide Silva Bra Ian.

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Jean D Hawk. Ramsey, Bookie and Mar Edgar
Groggy a bra. Ryan Collin in AUS.
Gabriel Medina bra awarded 2026 WSL season.
Wild. Card for more.
Information please visit worldsurfleague.com WA.

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Margaret River Pro. Women's final results one
Gabriella Bryan HA 17.332 Caitlin Simmers USA 12.84 WA.
Margaret River Pro. Men's final results one Jordy
Smith RSA 12.002 Griffin Cola, Pinto USA 4.83 WA.

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Margaret River Pro. Women's semifinal results Heat
One Caitlin Simmers, USA 14.00 def Bronte McCauley AUS 9.34
Heat 2 Gabriella Bryan Ha 16.34 deaf Lakey Peterson USA 11.64

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WA. Margaret River Pro.
Men S Semifinal results heat 1 Griffin Cola Pinto USA 12.17
deaf Baron Mamalia Ha 7.44 heat 2 Jordy Smith RSA 14.67 deaf
Crosby cola Pinto USA 6.67 next stop Lexus trestles pro

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