SPORTS
Three-time world champion should only compete again in six to eight months
Gabriel Medina from São Paulo is out of the 2025 season of the World Surfing League (WSL, acronym and English). According to Team Brasil’s Instagram profile, the Olympic bronze medalist and three-time circuit champion underwent surgery this Saturday (11) to reconstruct the tendon of the pectoralis major muscle in his left shoulder, injured during training on the beach. de Maresias, in São Sebastião (SP), last Friday (10).
The forecast, according to the publication, is that Medina will return to competitions in six to eight months. As a result, the surfer will not be able to participate in this year’s WSL season, which starts on January 27th, in Pipeline, Hawaii. The competition marks ten years since São Paulo’s first world title, won in 2014.
Also champion in 2018 and 2021, Medina would be one of the country’s ten representatives in the men’s competition. The others are Filipe Toledo, Ítalo Ferreira (both world champions), João “Chumbinho” Chianca, Yago Dora, Samuel Pupo, Ian Gouveia, Alejo Muniz, Miguel Pupo, Edgard Groggia and Deivid Silva. In the women’s category, the only Brazilian who is in the elite is Tatiana Weston-Webb, silver at the Paris Olympics, in France, in 2024.
