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2019 World Surf League | |
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Location | Australia, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, French Polynesia, The United States of America, France, Portugal |
Dates | 3 April 2019 - 20 December 2019 |
Champions | |
Men | Italo Ferreira |
Women | Carissa Moore |
The 2019 World Surf League was the competition series hosted by the World Surf League, the global championship body for competitive surfing. The 2019 World Surf League consisted of the Championship Tour (shortboard tour), the Qualifying Series (shortboard and longboard), Big Wave Tour, Longboard Tour, Junior Tour, and other specialty tours and events such as the Vans Triple Crown.[1]
The Annual World Surf League Champion Tour is a professional shortboarding surf tour run by the World Surf League (WSL), formerly known as the Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) prior to 2014.[2]
The Championship tour is divided by gender into the Men’s and Women’s championship series. The 2019 tour consisted of 11 Men’s events and 10 Women’s events. The placings from each event for each competitor are used to determine, at the conclusion of the tour, the overall female and male champions for 2019, referred to by the league as World Champions.
The 2019 tour began in April and ended in December, travelling to the global locations of Australia, Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, America, France, Portugal, Hawaii and Tahiti.[3] In 2019 the female world champion was Carissa Moore,[4] from Hawaii, and the male world champion was Italo Ferreira, from Brazil.[5]