Australian Molly Picklum has develop into the primary non-Hawaiian girls’s winner of the Vans Pipe Masters in Oahu and pocketed $US100,000 ($A150,000) in prize cash.
Having made her championship debut this yr, the 20-year-old beat Hawaiian duo Bettylou Sakura-Johnson and Carissa Moore, and American Caity Simmers within the closing.
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The invitational occasion on the North Shore has solely had a girls’s competitors for 3 years, however the males’s has been run since 1971.
Run independently of the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour this yr, the invitation solely occasion had 60 feminine and male athletes.
“That is the best second of my profession to this point,” Picklum mentioned.
“Though I used to be holding the trophy, I really feel like we received by pushing girls’s browsing. I am honored to have performed this alongside such a powerful, inspirational, cool class of ladies!”
Fellow surfers can be cautious of Picklum when the WSL Championship Tour begins with the 2023 Billabong Professional Pipeline in January on the similar place.
American Balaram Stack received the lads’s occasion.
2022 Vans Pipe Masters | Finals
Males 1. Balaram Stack (USA) 42.30 2. Griffin Colapinto (USA) 35.10 3. Kaulana Apo (HAW) 25.70 4. João Chianca (BRA) 24.60
Girls 1. Molly Picklum (AUS) 30.00 2. Bettylou Johnson (HAW) 20.30 3. Caitlin Simmers (USA) 18.50 4. Carissa Moore (HAW) 18.10
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