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Women's shortboard at the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad
Olympic surfing
Venue	Teahupo'o reef pass, Tahiti
Dates	27 July – 5 August 2024
Competitors	24 from 16 nations
Medalists
Caroline Marks  United States Tatiana Weston-Webb  Brazil Johanne Defay  France
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Surfing at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Qualification
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The women's shortboard competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris was held from 25 July to 5 August at the Teahupo'o reef pass, Tahiti, a French overseas territory in the French Polynesia, located more than 9,320 miles (14,999 km) from Paris.

American surfer Caroline Marks won gold, Brazilian Tatiana Weston-Webb took silver, and Johanne Defay of France received bronze.

Qualification

The 24 quota places per gender were distributed to the eligible surfers at the following events based on the hierarchical structure:

• Host country – As the host country, France reserves one quota place each for the men's and women's shortboard events. If one or more French surfers qualify regularly and directly, their slots will be reallocated to the next highest-ranked eligible surfers from the 2024 ISA World Surfing Games.
• 2022 ISA World Surfing Games – The winning teams by gender will secure one place for their respective NOC, regardless of the two-per-country quota limit.
• 2023 World Surf League Championship Tour – The top ten men and top eight women eligible for qualification will each be awarded a quota place.
• 2023 Pan American Games (continental qualification for America) – The gold medalist of each shortboard event will be entitled to a spot for the Olympics; otherwise, it will be reallocated to the next highest-ranked surfer in the same tournament.
• 2023 ISA World Surfing Games (continental qualification for Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania) – The highest-ranked eligible male and female surfer from Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania will be entitled to a spot for the Olympics; otherwise, it will be reallocated to the next highest-ranked surfer on the continent. The highest-ranked athlete (or next highest-ranked athlete if reallocation) must achieve a top-30 placings at this event; otherwise, it will be reallocated to the next highest-ranked eligible athlete, not yet qualified, regardless of continent.
• 2024 ISA World Surfing Games:
  • The winning teams by gender will secure one place for their respective NOC, regardless of the two-per-country quota limit.
  • The top five men and top seven women eligible for qualification will each be awarded a quota place.
• Universality place – For the first time, an additional place per gender will be entitled to eligible NOCs interested to have their surfers compete in Paris 2024. To be registered for a spot granted by the Universality principle, the athlete must finish among the top 50 in his or her respective shortboard event at the 2023 or 2024 ISA World Surfing Games.

Competition format

The competition consists of six rounds:

• Round 1: 8 heats of 3 surfers each; the top in each heat (8 total) advance to round 3 while the other 2 from each heat (16 total) go to round 2 (essentially a repechage).

From round 2 onwards, all rounds are elimination rounds and the heats consists of two surfers, with the top surfer progressing to the next round and the second place being eliminated.

• Round 2: Head-to-head competition starts with this round, 8 heats of 2 surfers each; the top in each heat (8 total) advance to round 3 while the other in each heat (8 total) is eliminated.
• Round 3: 8 heats of 2 surfers each; winner advances, loser eliminated
• Quarterfinals: 4 heats of 2 surfers each; winner advances, loser eliminated
• Semifinals: 2 heats of 2 surfers each; winner advances to final, loser advances to third place heat
• Final and bronze medal match

The length of each heat (25 to 40 minutes) and the number of waves each surfer can ride (maximum 25) are determined by the technical director ahead of the day of competition. Scoring for each wave is from 0.1 to 10, with the best two waves for each surfer counting. Scores are based on the difficulty of manoeuvres performed, innovation and progression, variety, combination, speed, power, and flow of each manoeuvre.

Judges

The competition is judged by two head judges, two priority judges, and seven regular judges.

• Ian Buchanan, priority judge ( NZL)
• Luiz Dantas ( BRA)
• Tatsuya Fukagawa ( JPN)
• Tory Gilkerson ( USA)
• Daniel Kosoof ( NZL)
• Benjamin Lowe ( AUS)
• Marcel Miranda, priority judge ( BRA)
• Luiz Pereira, head judge ( BRA)
• Richard Pierce Jr., head judge ( USA)
• Thierry Vidal ( FRA)
• Mikel Zalacain ( ESP)

After Australian surfing judge Benjamin Lowe posted a picture on social media of himself posing with Australian competitor Ethan Ewing and his coach Bede Durbidge, Lowe was removed from the judging panel by the International Surfing Association on August 1.

Schedule

Competition was originally set to take place over 4 days between 27 and 30 July, with a contingency period of 5 days between 31 July and 5 August, if necessary.

On 29 July, the weather turned dangerous towards the end of round 3 of the men's shortboard event, forcing the cancellation of the women's third round. The waves continued to be too rough for competition over the next two days, leaving the final women's round 3 and all finals re-scheduled for 1 and 3 August (a lack of contestable conditions was also expected for 2 August).

Competition was again called off on 3 and 4 August, with the semifinals and finals tentatively set for 5 August.

All times are local, PFT (UTC−10)

Pre-competition seeding

Surfers were pre-seeded according to their final ranking in the 2024 ISA World Surfing Games.

Results

Round 1

The first round is non-elimination. Surfers were seeded into eight heats of three surfers each, with the top surfer advancing straight to Round 3. The bottom two surfers were seeded into Round 2, the first elimination round.

Heat 1

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Caroline Marks	United States	2.00	8.50	1.50	2.37	9.43	17.93	R3
2	Sarah Baum	South Africa	1.00	5.67	2.80	2.73	0.27	8.47	R2
3	Yolanda Hopkins	Portugal	2.50	4.50	0.60	0.60	0.20	7.00	R2

Heat 2

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves								Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	Vahiné Fierro	France	1.33	6.17	2.43	5.00					11.17	R3
2	Sol Aguirre	Peru	0.43	0.20	1.10	0.70	1.90	0.63	2.40	1.10	4.30	R2
3	Janire Gonzalez-Etxabarri	Spain	0.70	0.97	1.30	1.13					2.43	R2

Heat 3

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves							Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	Tyler Wright	Australia	1.17	4.17	3.50	2.33	1.27	3.20	2.07	7.67	R3
2	Anat Lelior	Israel	0.50	0.43	3.23	2.20				5.43	R2
3	Sanoa Dempfle-Olin	Canada	2.83	2.00	1.67	0.50				4.83	R2

Heat 4

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Caitlin Simmers	United States	1.83	6.50	0.50	6.43	1.40	3.83	12.93	R3
2	Tatiana Weston-Webb	Brazil	5.83	1.93	0.23	4.50			10.33	R2
3	Molly Picklum	Australia	1.57	0.93	2.67	5.77			8.44	R2

Heat 5

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Brisa Hennessy	Costa Rica	8.33	3.33	6.50	7.23		15.56	R3
2	Johanne Defay	France	0.33	2.33	2.33	5.00	4.50	9.50	R2
3	Candelaria Resano	Nicaragua	0.83	1.33	3.43	6.00	0.50	9.43	R2

Heat 6

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Luana Silva	Brazil	1.00	2.77	4.50			7.27	R3
2	Tainá Hinckel	Brazil	0.57	2.50	1.70	2.83	2.90	5.73	R2
3	Camilla Kemp	Germany	2.00	0.53	0.80	0.20		2.80	R2

Heat 7

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Nadia Erostarbe	Spain	8.33	3.83	3.57	5.50	1.63	13.83	R3
2	Saffi Vette	New Zealand	2.33	4.73	2.77			7.50	R2
3	Yang Siqi	China	2.50	1.00	0.80	2.90	0.33	5.40	R2

Heat 8

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Carissa Moore	United States	3.83	6.17	9.00	7.50			16.50	R3
2	Shino Matsuda	Japan	0.63	8.33	2.33	1.07	2.83		11.16	R2
3	Teresa Bonvalot	Portugal	5.17	0.27	5.17	0.87	3.60	1.47	10.34	R2

Round 2

In the second round surfers were seeded into eight heats of two surfers each, with the top surfer advancing to Round 3 (round of 16) and the second place being eliminated.

The pairs in each heat were formed based on surfers' results in the round 1 and according to their pre-competition (PC) seeding, with the second places facing the third places:

• Heat 1: 2nd in Round 1, 3rd best PC seeding v 3rd in Round 1, 6th best PC seeding
• Heat 2: 2nd in Round 1, 6th best PC seeding v 3rd in Round 1, 3rd best PC seeding
• Heat 3: 2nd in Round 1, 7th best PC seeding v 3rd in Round 1, 2nd best PC seeding
• Heat 4: 2nd in Round 1, 2nd best PC seeding v 3rd in Round 1, 7th best PC seeding
• Heat 5: 2nd in Round 1, Best PC seeding v 3rd in Round 1, 8th best PC seeding
• Heat 6: 2nd in Round 1, 8th best PC seeding v 3rd in Round 1, Best PC seeding
• Heat 7: 2nd in Round 1, 5th best PC seeding v 3rd in Round 1, 4th best PC seeding
• Heat 8: 2nd in Round 1, 4th best PC seeding v 3rd in Round 1, 5th best PC seeding

Heat 1

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Siqi Yang	China	3.00	4.50	0.70	2.90	4.17	8.67	R3
2	Sol Aguirre	Peru	2.00	2.50	0.73	1.33		4.50	E

Heat 2

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves									Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	Sarah Baum	South Africa	0.53	1.00	0.23	2.47	4.83	5.67	0.77	0.13	1.73	10.50	R3
2	Camilla Kemp	Germany	0.37	2.17	0.70	1.60	2.77	0.30				4.94	E

Heat 3

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Shino Matsuda	Japan	1.60	2.10	0.57	7.67		9.77	R3
2	Teresa Bonvalot	Portugal	1.50	3.67	0.63	3.17	1.20	6.84	E

Heat 4

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Johanne Defay	France	2.83	4.00	7.83	1.00	3.93	1.00	11.83	R3
2	Molly Picklum	Australia	1.00	5.83	0.67	1.60			7.43	E

Heat 5

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves				Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4
1	Tatiana Weston-Webb	Brazil	5.50	2.83	4.00	1.33	9.50	R3
2	Candelaria Resano	Nicaragua	0.87	1.43	1.87	0.93	3.30	E

Heat 6

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Yolanda Hopkins	Portugal	0.17	0.77	3.67	1.00	0.33	4.67	R3
2	Saffi Vette	New Zealand	0.27	0.43	0.60	0.67		1.27	E

Heat 7

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Tainá Hinckel	Brazil	3.23	3.30	3.80			7.10	R3
2	Sanoa Dempfle-Olin	Canada	3.50	2.50	2.10	2.80	0.43	6.30	E

Heat 8

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Anat Lelior	Israel	6.50	0.93	3.17	3.33	4.50	11.00	R3
2	Janire Gonzalez-Etxabarri	Spain	0.20	2.50	0.30			2.80	E

Bracket

The bracket was determined based on the seeding made for round 3 (round of 16). The winner from each head-to-head heat qualifies to the next round.

	3rd round					Quarter-finals					Semi-finals					Gold medal match
	9	Caroline Marks (USA)	6.93
	14	Siqi Yang (CHN)	1.63
						9	Caroline Marks (USA)	7.77
						20	Tyler Wright (AUS)	5.37
	20	Tyler Wright (AUS)	11.10
	5	Anat Lelior (ISR)	7.74
											9	Caroline Marks (USA)	12.17
											2	Johanne Defay (FRA)	12.17
	21	Vahine Fierro (FRA)	7.54
	2	Johanne Defay (FRA)	9.00
						2	Johanne Defay (FRA)	10.34
						7	Carissa Moore (USA)	6.50
	7	Carissa Moore (USA)	8.16
	17	Sarah Baum (RSA)	3.87
																9	Caroline Marks (USA)	10.50
																1	Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA)	10.33
	3	Nadia Erostarbe (ESP)	8.34
	18	Shino Matsuda (JPN)	5.84
						3	Nadia Erostarbe (ESP)	6.34
						1	Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA)	8.10
	24	Caitlin Simmers (USA)	1.93
	1	Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA)	12.34
											1	Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA)	13.66
											15	Brisa Hennessy (CRC)	6.17
	19	Luana Silva (BRA)	6.77													Bronze medal match
	6	Tainá Hinckel (BRA)	5.93
						19	Luana Silva (BRA)	5.47								2	Johanne Defay (FRA)	12.66
						15	Brisa Hennessy (CRC)	6.37								15	Brisa Hennessy (CRC)	4.93
	15	Brisa Hennessy (CRC)	12.34
	8	Yolanda Hopkins (POR)	9.90

Round 3

In the third round (round of 16) surfers were also seeded into eight heats of two surfers each, with the top surfer advancing to the quarter-finals and the second place being eliminated.

Round three was initially scheduled for the 30th July, after the men's round 3, but was called off and rescheduled to August 1st.

The pairs in each heat were formed based on surfers' results in the round 1 and according to their pre-competition (PC) seeding, with the second places facing the third places:

• Heat 1: 1st in Round 1, 3rd best PC seeding v Round 2 winner, 6th best PC seeding
• Heat 2: 1st in Round 1, 6th best PC seeding v Round 2 winner, 3rd best PC seeding
• Heat 3: 1st in Round 1, 7th best PC seeding v Round 2 winner, 2nd best PC seeding
• Heat 4: 1st in Round 1, 2nd best PC seeding v Round 2 winner, 7th best PC seeding
• Heat 5: 1st in Round 1, Best PC seeding v Round 2 winner, 8th best PC seeding
• Heat 6: 1st in Round 1, 8th best PC seeding v Round 2 winner, Best PC seeding
• Heat 7: 1st in Round 1, 5th best PC seeding v Round 2 winner, 4th best PC seeding
• Heat 8: 1st in Round 1, 4th best PC seeding v Round 2 winner, 5th best PC seeding

Heat 1

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves				Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4
1	Caroline Marks	United States	2.00	2.60	4.33	0.37	6.93	QF
2	Siqi Yang	China	0.50	1.00	0.20	0.63	1.63	E

Heat 2

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves									Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	Tyler Wright	Australia	5.83	2.67	0.70	2.60	2.43	2.50	0.33	1.23	5.27	11.10	QF
2	Anat Lelior	Israel	0.50	4.67	1.07	3.07	0.80	0.97	1.93	0.43		7.74	E

Heat 3

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves							Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	Johanne Defay	France	3.00	0.57	3.33	2.20	5.00	4.00	3.07	9.00	QF
2	Vahine Fierro	France	3.77	1.77	3.77	2.23	1.93	1.43		7.54	E

Heat 4

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Carissa Moore	United States	2.50	3.83	0.50	0.77	2.30	4.33	8.16	QF
2	Sarah Baum	South Africa	1.87	0.50	2.00	0.77			3.87	E

Heat 5

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Nadia Erostarbe	Spain	3.50	0.50	4.77	0.77	3.57	8.34	QF
2	Shino Matsuda	Japan	2.67	3.17				5.84	E

Heat 6

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Tatiana Weston-Webb	Brazil	0.30	6.17	6.17	3.33	0.20	12.34	QF
2	Caitlin Simmers	United States	0.27	1.50	0.43			1.93	E

Heat 7

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Luana Silva	Brazil	2.50	2.17	3.50	3.27		6.77	QF
2	Tainá Hinckel	Brazil	0.80	1.77	2.93	3.00	0.17	5.93	E

Heat 8

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves								Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
1	Brisa Hennessy	Costa Rica	0.83	4.17	7.67	0.50	2.17	0.50	2.57	4.67	12.34	QF
2	Yolanda Hopkins	Portugal	6.33	3.57	1.33	1.83	1.60				9.90	E

Quarter-finals

Heat 1

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Caroline Marks	United States	4.00	2.33	2.17	0.20	3.77	0.50	7.77	SF
2	Tyler Wright	Australia	1.00	3.50	1.87	0.87			5.37	E

Heat 2

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Johanne Defay	France	5.67	1.90	4.67	0.60	2.17	4.50	10.34	SF
2	Carissa Moore	United States	0.50	3.00	3.50	1.00	1.97		6.50	E

Heat 3

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves							Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1	Nadia Erostarbe	Spain	0.20	0.37	0.50	2.77	3.57	0.83		6.34	E
2	Tatiana Weston-Webb	Brazil	3.33	2.67	0.50	3.03	1.23	3.60	4.50	8.10	SF

Heat 4

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Luana Silva	Brazil	0.30	0.27	0.57	2.23	2.57	2.90	5.47	E
2	Brisa Hennessy	Costa Rica	2.33	0.47	3.17	3.20	0.37		6.37	SF

Semi-finals

Heat 1

Because the final scores were tied, Caroline Marks won the heat as she had the highest-scoring single wave (7.00).

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Caroline Marks	United States	5.17	5.00	7.00	0.47			12.17	F
2	Johanne Defay	France	5.67	4.00	3.00	0.47	6.50	3.30	12.17	3/4

Heat 2

Around the 20:00 mark, Hennessy was penalised for priority interference, resulting in only her single highest-scoring wave being counted.

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves						Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Tatiana Weston-Webb	Brazil	2.67	0.57	5.33	4.00	5.30	8.33	13.66	F
2	Brisa Hennessy	Costa Rica	1.93	0.00*	4.83 PEN	6.17	0.33		6.17	3/4

Bronze medal heat

The bronze medal match lasted for 35 minutes. The waves had a height of 1.8 metres (5.9 ft) from the SSW at an interval of 14 seconds.

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves									Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1	Johanne Defay	France	0.20	5.83	5.27	5.57	0.53	6.83	0.50	0.70	4.17	12.66
2	Brisa Hennessy	Costa Rica	3.00	1.50	1.93							4.93	4th

Gold medal heat

The gold medal match was 35 minutes long. The waves were 2.4 metres (7.9 ft) high from the SSW with an interval of 14 seconds.

Rank	Surfer	Nation	Waves					Total score	Notes
			1	2	3	4	5
1	Caroline Marks	United States	0.50	7.50	1.43	3.00	2.00	10.50
2	Tatiana Weston-Webb	Brazil	0.33	0.43	5.83	1.80	4.50	10.33

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