Stephanie Gilmore

- Happy Gilmore reflects her joyful and positive personality. "Stephanie Gilmore"

Stephanie Gilmore

Stephanie Louise Gilmore was born on January 29, 1988, in Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia. Her parents are Jeff and Tracy Gilmore.She rode her first wave on a bodyboard at the age of 10 and spent her initial surfing years taking on Coolangatta’s most popular and crowded surf breaks. The regular footers’ favorite surf breaks are Greenmount Beach (Coolangatta, Australia), Macaronis (Mentawai Islands, Indonesia), and Honolua Bay (Maui, Hawaii).

Stephanie Gilmore is a seven-time world surfing champion (2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, and 2018).In 2005, the Australian got a wildcard to compete at the Roxy Pro Gold Coast and won the event.Steph qualified for the ASP Women’s Championship Tour in 2007. In her rookie year, Gilmore won four of the eight events and claimed the world title “on a day off from high school.”

Three years later, in 2010, Stephanie won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the Year award and was inducted into the Surfers’ Hall of Fame.The sun-bleached hair surfer also won the Best Female Action Sports Athlete ESPY Award in 2011 and 2013. Stephanie Gilmore is the star of the feature-length documentary “Stephanie In The Water,” directed by Ava Warbrick.

In 2013, the Australian surfer was heavily criticized and accused of sexual objectification of the woman’s body for an ad she made for her sponsor, Roxy.In 2018, Gilmore equaled Layne Beachley’s seven world titles - they are the most successful female surfers of all time. Stephanie has been training with elite performance coach Nam Baldwin, but she has also had a few pool sessions with Laird and Gabby Hamilton. The NSW surfer will be one of the two first female surfers to represent Australia in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. Stephanie Gilmore is known for her outstanding paddling strength, elegant surf lines, explosive performances, and excellent wave reading skills.

Steph’s surfing style is often compared to her fellow Gold Coast surfer, Joel Parkinson. Stephanie Gilmore posed in a sexy nude photo session for ESPN Magazine’s 2011 Bodies We Want and landed the cover of Women’s Health and Outside.

To date, Gilmore won 31 Championship Tour events. But she’s just begun her happy journey.

World Champion Stephanie Gilmore led the charge for pay parity in surfing. Now she is inspiring other young girls to go for the gold.