“My dad taught me how to surf when I was five years old at Waikiki beach and I was immediately hooked,” she revealed on her website. “The ocean is my happy place!” And her competition record speaks for itself, with Moore dominating the waves.

Had Moore won the world title based on her year-end ranking like every other world champion in the history of the sport, right now she would be tied with Gilmore and Beachley, all of them with seven titles apiece. Instead, Gilmore sits at eight titles, while Moore has five.

Bethany Meilani Hamilton Bethany Meilani Hamilton (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional surfer and writer who survived a 2003 shark attack in which her left arm was bitten off and who ultimately returned to professional surfing.

Stephanie Gilmore Stephanie Gilmore won the world surfing title in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2022 and is the most female winner in history.

Moore has been named an Adventurer of the Year by National Geographic, a Woman of the Year by Glamour magazine and Top Female Surfer in the SURFER magazine poll (numerous times). She was inducted into the Surfers' Hall of Fame, and the State of Hawaii declared January 4 to be Carissa Moore Day.

world surfing champion Carissa Moore is a multi-time world surfing champion and the sport's first-ever Olympic gold medalist, but at the end of the day the woman they call 'Riss' would prefer to be known as a great human more than a great surfer.

At the age of 13 as a rising surf star, Bethany lost her left arm to a 14-foot tiger shark, which seemed to end her dream career. However, one month after the attack, Bethany returned to surfing and within two years had won her first national surfing title.

Butchering it offshore away from prying eyes, they found no evidence of Bethany's arm, her watch, or the 18-inch semi-circle of surfboard that the shark had taken with it. The shark would have long before regurgitated the irritating fiberglass and foam and probably the arm with it.

Known as the most stylish surfer on the planet, eight-time WSL women's world champion Stephanie Gilmore glides into the heart of anyone that watches her dance in the ocean.

Maya Reis Gabeira Maya Reis Gabeira (born April 10, 1987) is a Brazilian big wave surfer. She surfed a 22.4 m (73 ft) high wave in Nazaré, Portugal in February 2020, recorded by Guinness World Records as the biggest wave ever surfed by a woman.

Stephanie Gilmore (Australia) We could say that the 35-year-old Australian is the best female surfer in history, as she holds the most world titles, 8 to be precise. Stephanie Gilmore won the world surfing title in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2012, 2014, 2018 and 2022 and is the most female winner in history.

She was the first-ever winner of the Olympic Gold Medal in women's short board surfing in 2020. She was also the 2011, 2013, 2015, 2019 and 2021 World Surf League WSL Women's World Tour Champion. Moore is the first surfer in history to win a WSL world title and the Olympic title in the same year. Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S.