The USA’s Caroline Marks and Brazil’s Tatiana Weston-Webb will compete in the women’s Olympic surfing final for the Paris 2024 Games at Teahupo’o on the island of Tahiti later on Monday, August 5.
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The men’s and women’s semi-finals on Monday came after three days off after the doubleheader round 3 and quarter-final competitions on August 1 that ended the title defense of Tokyo 2020 Olympic champion **Carissa Moore**.
On Monday, the four women who had left came out leading. Goofy and regular riders competed in two head-to-head heats, with the goofy-footed riders—Marks and Weston-Webb, among others—advancing to the gold medal final. The competitors that will battle for bronze are Johanne Defay of France and Brisa Hennessy of Costa Rica.
There won’t be any medallists from Tokyo 2020 making it to the semifinals, so the women’s surfing podium in Paris 2024 will be completely changed. Returning Olympians Marks and Hennessy, who both narrowly missed the podium in Tokyo, are among the four women competing for medals. “I’m overjoyed. It’s really pleasant.
After making it to the gold medal final in surfing, Marks told Olympics.com, “I was really emotional about not medalling in Tokyo, so I’m going to stop talking now because I’ll get emotional now that I know I’m going to get one.””I’m relieved things worked out because I cut my foot on the reef a few times. I’m just overjoyed.
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It’s the greatest sensation ever—so hot. That victory felt really significant, and I’ve had some major moments in my career. I’m thrilled with my score.” Weston-Webb was ecstatic to make it to the gold medal round as well. “I’m very happy I got to showcase my surfing,” she stated. “I’m happy that it seems like I’m beginning to get a grasp on this wave.
This is really important for our nation, and I’m excited to represent Brazil in the final.Marks and Defay finished with a combined heat score of 12.17 in the first heat. It ultimately came down to Marks’s highest wave score of 7.0 in the tie-breaker. With a perfect frontside barrel that saw her exit and carve back to finish, she earned her 7.0 and finished with a clean hammer off the lip to cap off a winning wave.
Heat 2 observed Weston-Webb defeated Hennessy in the semi-final heat by using full rail turns and some great frontside tube surfing to record the day’s highest single wave score of 8.33 and a total heat score of 13.66. Hennessy’s hopes were essentially dashed when she made an unintentional priority mistake in the heat and was punished for it. Her warmth ended with a single-wave score of 6.17.Congratulations.