MEO Pro Portugal
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2023
SportSurfing
CountryPortugal
Most recent
champion(s)		Brazil João Chianca (men)
United States Caitlin Simmers (women)
Most titlesBrazil Italo Ferreira (2 titles) (men)
4 surfers (1 title) (women)
Official website

MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal formerly known as MEO Pro Portugal, Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal or Rip Curl Pro Portugal is a professional surfing competition of the WSL World Tour. As of 2022, held every year in March at the Supertubos beach in Peniche, Portugal.[1] The event was first founded in 2010 as Rip Curl Pro Portugal.[2]

The defending men's champion is the Californian surfer Griffin Colapinto who won the event in 2022 after the break due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Before, Brazilian surfer Italo Ferreira won the event both in 2018 and 2019, being the first back-to-back winner ever on the event.[3][4]

The defending women's champion is the Brasilian goofy-footed surfer Tatiana Weston-Webb, who beat American runner-up Lakey Peterson in 2022.

In 2016, due to the lack of surfing conditions on Supertubos beach, the WSL organization explored other possibilities in the peninsula and moved temporarily to Point Fabril, between Almagreira and Pico da Mota, where the waves were big and curly providing a good show for the spectators.[5] The Round 5 of the event was done there, then the conditions on Supertubos came back, and the competition returned to its normality.[6]

In August 2018, it was announced by the WSL that Peniche will receive once again the women's competition after nine years without it, which they lost to Cascais. Peniche will host both the men's and women's competition.[7]

Naming

Since the birth of this competition it had four different titles due to sponsor deals.

NameYears
Rip Curl Pro Portugal2010–2013
Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal2014–2015
MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal2016–present
MEO Pro Portugal2022

Winners

The MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal event gives birth to a new champion each and every year. The past champions of the listed WSL competition are located below.[8]

Finished season as world champion
Men's
Year Winner Score Runner-up Score
2010[9]  Kelly Slater (USA) 13.33  Jordy Smith (ZAF) 11.43
2011[10]  Adriano de Souza (BRA) 15.67  Kelly Slater (USA) 14.73
2012[11]  Julian Wilson (AUS) 16.26  Gabriel Medina (BRA) 15.37
2013[12]  Kai Otton (AUS) 12.23  Nat Young (USA) 11.03
2014[13]  Mick Fanning (AUS) 15.50  Jordy Smith (ZAF) 7.67
2015[14]  Filipe Toledo (BRA) 17.83  Italo Ferreira (BRA) 17.13
2016[15]  John John Florence (HAW) 16.67  Conner Coffin (USA) 9.93
2017[16]  Gabriel Medina (BRA) 13.26  Julian Wilson (AUS) 10.94
2018[17]  Italo Ferreira (BRA) 15.93  Joan Duru (FRA) 10.77
2019[18]  Italo Ferreira (BRA)[2] 18.43  Jordy Smith (ZAF) 6.17
2022[19]  Griffin Colapinto (USA) 14.34  Filipe Toledo (BRA) 14.20
2023[20]  João Chianca (BRA) 17.57  Jack Robinson (AUS) 15.14


Women's
Year Winner Score Runner-up Score
2010[21]  Carissa Moore (HAW) 17.44  Stephanie Gilmore (AUS) 8.60
2019[22]  Caroline Marks (USA) 13.73  Lakey Peterson (USA) 6.27
2022[23]  Tatiana Weston-Webb (BRA) 15.33  Lakey Peterson (USA) 14.27
2023[20]  Caitlin Simmers (USA) 13.50  Courtney Conlogue (USA) 12.83

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Men's Championship Tour Event Schedule". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  2. ↑ "2010 Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  3. ↑ "MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2018".
  4. ↑ "Ítalo Ferreira crava nota 10, é campeão em Peniche e assume liderança do Mundial de Surfe". Globoesporte (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  5. ↑ Redação. "Meo Rip Curl Pro avança no Point Fabril" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  6. ↑ "News - 2016 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  7. ↑ Redação. "Apresentado o World Tour 2019 com Peniche a receber prova feminina" (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 2018-09-07.
  8. ↑ "Champions MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  9. ↑ "Results - 2010 Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  10. ↑ "Results - 2011 Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  11. ↑ "Results - 2012 Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  12. ↑ "Results - 2013 Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  13. ↑ "2014 Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  14. ↑ "2015 Moche Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  15. ↑ "2016 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  16. ↑ "2017 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  17. ↑ "2018 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2018-05-25.
  18. ↑ "2019 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  19. ↑ "MEO Pro Portugal 2022". World Surf League. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
  20. 1 2 "Results - MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal 2023". World Surf League. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
  21. ↑ "Results - 2010 Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2017-07-22.
  22. ↑ "2019 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal". World Surf League. Retrieved 2019-10-26.
  23. ↑ "Results - MEO Pro Portugal Women's 2022". World Surf League. Retrieved 2022-03-07.
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