Ichinomiya (Japan) (AFP)
American Carissa Moore on Tuesday became the first Olympic surfing champion in history at the Tokyo Games, whose events were contested in Ichinomiya in Chiba Prefecture, about 100 kilometers east of the Japanese capital. .
Moore, 28, a big favorite before the competition, was crowned by beating South African Bianca Buitendag in the final.
Japanese Amuro Tsuzuki took the bronze medal.
With joy, arms in the air, the surfer even offered herself a last wave to ride to reach the beach where she fell into the arms of her opponent, then of her clan who were waiting for her to wrap her in the American flag.
Carissa Moore therefore accompanies the Brazilian Italo Ferreira, crowned a few minutes earlier, in the history books, for this sport which made its entry into the Olympic Games this year.
Moore, a four-time winner of the World Surf League, is the youngest surfer in history to win a stage in the WSL (the private circuit of the World Surf League), which governs the professional world of surfing.
The professional worlds (private circuit of the World Surf League) and amateur (International Surfing Federation) have agreed to allow the elite of surfers to participate in the Tokyo Olympics - where the discipline is an additional sport - by renouncing the principle of 'an artificial basin to favor a natural site.
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