Brazilian Italo Ferreira became the first Olympic surfing champion in history on Tuesday.
Ferreira defeated Japan's Kanoa Igarashi in the final, Australia's Owen Wright taking the bronze medal.
Star Gabriel Medina failed at the podium, in fourth place.
The Brazilian Italo Ferreira became the first Olympic surfing champion in history on Tuesday, during the Tokyo Olympics, whose events were contested in Ichinomiya in Chiba prefecture, about a hundred kilometers to the far east of the capital. Japanese. Ferreira defeated Japan's Kanoa Igarashi in the final, Australia's Owen Wright taking the bronze medal.