Australian pro-surfer Laura Enever has set a brand new world file for browsing the biggest wave ever paddled into by a lady.
Key factors:
- Laura Enever beforehand competed on the WSL Championship tour
- Enever’s record-breaking wave was only one foot (30cm) larger than the earlier file
- Brazilian Andrea Moller’s file had stood for seven years
The 31-year-old, from North Narrabeen on Sydney’s Northern Seashores, paddled right into a 13.3-metre (43.6-foot) wave on the well-known Outer Reef break on the north shore of Oahu, Hawai’i in January this yr.
“I knew it was huge once I paddled into it,” Enever informed the World Surf League (WSL).
“Once I took off, I appeared down, and I knew it was positively the largest wave I’ve ever caught.”
Though she broke the file on January 22, Enever was offered together with her world file certificates at Narrabeen this week.
“I knew it was the wave of my life, the entire manner all of it got here collectively and the best way I dedicated, backed myself, informed myself to go, and trusted I may do it,” Enever mentioned.
“The experience was such a breakthrough for me and a second that will likely be particular and monumental in my surf profession.
“To get awarded this months later is absolutely cool, I can not imagine it.”
Enever achieved the feat as a part of the WSL’s Large Wave Document Chase season, beating the lengthy standing earlier file held by Brazilian Andrea Moller by one foot (30.48cm).
Moller, now based mostly in Hawai’i, had held the file since January 2016.
“I might by no means be on this place if it wasn’t for all the large wave surfers who’ve come earlier than me and paved the best way, particularly the actually courageous, brave females who’ve at all times impressed me and made me really feel like I may get on the market and provides it a crack,” Enever mentioned.
“I am simply consistently in awe. Andrea Moller held this file earlier than me, and it is an honour to carry that file and preserve pushing huge wave browsing.”
The WSL used a number of video angles and evaluation that included Enever’s physique peak to find out the peak of the wave from crest to trough.
Enever is a former Junior World Champion who competed for seven years on the WSL Championship Tour earlier than shifting into huge wave browsing.
“I’ve labored my entire life to be knowledgeable surfer and to be on the World Tour,” Enever mentioned.
“I gave that up for this pull and urge to surf huge waves.
“I used to be simply pondering I simply wished to go do that for me, and to be right here immediately and to have a world file for the largest paddle, I can not imagine it.”
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