Australia’s Tyler Wright makes surfing history with second Pipe Pro title Australia’s Tyler Wright has made surfing history, becoming the first woman to win Hawaii’s iconic Pipe Pro event twice as she snapped her title drought.
“The whole off-season, spending a lot of time just figuring out how to get the joy back a little bit – last year I was injured a lot more than I feel people thought,” Wright said.
The two-time world champion beat American defending world champion Caitlin Simmers in a low-scoring final on Sunday (AEDT) at Banzai Pipeline.
Wright won the first women’s Pipe Pro in 2020 and Simmers took out the event a year ago.
In the men’s final, local surfer Barron Mamiya became the first surfer to win successive Pipe events since the late Andy Irons in 2005-06.
