American Caroline Marks won the gold medal in surfing at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, which took place on Teahupo’o Beach in Tahiti, after winning the final on Monday in the Brazilian Tatiana Weston-Webb. Marks finished with 10.50 points and on her second attempt hit her best wave of 7.50, which left her the winner over Weston-Webb, who took the silver medal with a tight score of 10.33. .
Marks, with the triumph in Paris 2024, took the scepter that had been left vacant by Carissa Moore, gold in Tokyo 2020. The American, who at the time, said that surfing was a family pastime, came to this competition with the intention to improve his performance in Tokyo, when he finished in the fourth box and making it clear that his greatest ambition was “to win the gold in Paris”.
Marks, 22, cleared her way to the title in the semi-finals, leaving France’s Johanne Defay in the way, who eliminated Moore in the quarter-finals, who was precisely one of the athletes to follow for the born surfer in Boca Raton, Florida. The surfer, who started in this sport at the age of eight and who then also practiced horse riding, had her best series in the first round, where she managed to accumulate 17.93 points and a wave of 9.43.
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2024-08-06 11:50:48
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