Carissa Moore is out to prove that nothing is impossible, yet again.
The Tokyo 2020 surfing champion showed her fearless nature at her second Olympic Games in 2024, where she surfed one of the world’s heaviest waves while two months pregnant, and is now making a comeback to major competition with the home LA 2028 Olympic Games in her sights.
Moore announced her full-time return to the sport in 2026 via social media on Thursday, 13 November.
A five-time tour WSL Championship Tour winner, Moore has been handed a wildcard to begin off the season on 1 April at Bells Beach, Australia and wrap it up in December in her home state Hawaii, surfing the final, 12th event at the Banzai Pipeline in O’ahu.
Paris 2024 was the last major competition for the USA star, who surfed Teahupo’o five weeks after finding out she was pregnant. Moore advanced to the quarter-finals, where she fell to eventual bronze medallist Johanne Defay of France.
“Competing at the highest level of surfing is something I don’t take for granted, and I’m so grateful to be feeling healthy and reinvigorated,” Moore said in a post on social media. “I want my journey to show my daughter, and hopefully other women, that we can do anything; we can keep chasing our dreams, even as life evolves.”