know all the information about surfer Gabriel Medina including his biography, ranking and career journey as his photo and video go viral
Gabriel Medina, a Brazilian Olympic surfer, has won multiple World Surf League titles and is part of Brazil’s surfing team at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Recently, a picture of Medina from the surfing events in Tahiti, held 16,000km from Paris, went viral. He set a new Olympic record with a near-perfect score of 9.90 on his second wave.
Who is surfer Gabriel Medina as his photo and video go viral at the 2024 Olympics, bio, age, height, family and medals
Legendary! The picture of the 2024 Olympics?!
Jerome Brouillet captured the moment Brazil’s Gabriel Medina reacted to surfing the one of the biggest waves of the day, scoring a historic 9.90, which is the highest single wave score in Olympic history 👏🌊 pic.twitter.com/79bkG98Mwh
— Mo Imam (@MoAImam) July 30, 2024
His celebration, where he lifted and pointed his right hand to the sky while airborne, became a defining moment of the Olympics. The image, taken by Jerome Brouillet for Agence France-Presse, quickly went viral, earning the title “photo of the day” on social media.
Who is Gabriel Medina?
Born in São Sebastião, São Paulo, and raised in Maresias, Gabriel Medina is the son of Simone Pinto Medina and Claudio de Jesus Ferreira. Medina began surfing at the age of four and won his first national championship, the Rip Curl Grom Search in the Sub-12 category, in Búzios, Rio de Janeiro, at 11.
Gabriel Medina turned professional at 15 in 2009 and has secured 18 World Surf League Championship Tour event victories over his 15-year career. He won the World Surf League World Championships in 2014, 2018, and 2021. On March 3, 2024, Medina won the men’s final at the ISA World Surfing Games, qualifying as Brazil’s third competitor for the 2024 Olympic Games.
Medina has collaborated with shaper Johnny Cabianca since 2008. Medina, who uses around 100 surfboards annually with volumes ranging from 28.5 to 29.1 liters, achieved his first victory on a Cabianca Surfboard at the Quiksilver Pro France 2015. For Triple Crown events, he occasionally rides boards shaped by Wade Tokoro. In September 2020, Medina launched his own line of user-friendly softboards called “Medina Softboards.”
know all details about Medina:
- Born: 22 December 1993 (São Sebastião, São Paulo, Brazil)
- Nationality: Brazilian
- Age: 30-years-old
- Parents: Simone Pinto Medina and Claudio de Jesus Ferreira
- Height: 5’11”
- Weight: 77 kg
- Field: Men’s Table Tennis
- Stance: Goofy
- Shaper(s): Johnny Cabianca
- Favorite waves: Teahupo’o
- Favorite maneuvers: Aerials, Barrels
- Sponsors: Matt Nabney, Rip Curl, Adidas, Guaraná Antarctica, Vivo, Audi, Samsung Galaxy, Oakley, Gorilla