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Billabong Pro Teahupoo is a professional surfing competition of the World Surf League held at the break Teahupo'o in Taiarapu, Tahiti. The Billabong Pro Teahupoo was founded in 1999 and has been recognized as "one of the world's heaviest big wave competitions".
12 lip 2024 · Teahupo'o. While not everyone agrees on its preferred nomenclature, for the last two decades, this hollow, pristinely beautiful and supremely terrifying Tahitian reef pass has been universally recognized as one of surfing's most respected international competitive proving grounds.
Teahupoʻo is known for its surf break and resulting heavy, glassy waves, often reaching 2 to 3 m (7 to 10 ft), and sometimes up to 7 m (23 ft). Because of the regularity and size of its waves, it hosts the annual Billabong Pro Teahupoo surf competition (part of the World Championship Tour (WCT) surfing circuit) and the 2024 Olympic surfing ...
13 lip 2024 · The addition of Teahupo'o to the World Championship Tour would usher in a new era of competitive surfing, which insisted surfers be the best in the world in all conditions, from two to twenty feet, in beach breaks, reefs, points, and even mutant slabs like Teahupo'o. Learn more about Teahupo'o here.
6 sie 2024 · Kauli Vaast (FRA) and Caroline Marks (USA), two 22-year-olds born just twelve days apart, won surfing's second Olympic gold medals on a historic day at Teahupoo, French Polynesia's idyllic location for surfing in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
Teahupoʻo – wieś położona w południowo-zachodniej części wyspy Tahiti, wchodzącej w skład Wysp Towarzystwa na Polinezji Francuskiej. W 2022 miejscowość zamieszkiwało 1455 osób. Nazwa „Teahupoʻo” tłumaczona jest jako „ściana czaszek”, „złamana czaszka”. Od lat 60.
Tahiti’s volanic-island bathymetry allows swells to directly impact reefs, with only minor refraction offshore — an ideal set-up for intense surf.
