{"id":1638,"date":"2025-09-04T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/1638\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T16:00:11","slug":"wsl-surfing-champ-molly-picklum-claims-world-title-and-shares-advice-for-nz-surfers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/1638\/","title":{"rendered":"WSL surfing champ Molly Picklum claims world title and shares advice for NZ surfers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">From the New South Wales Central Coast, Picklum had 10 weeks out before the start of this year\u2019s tour after fracturing a metatarsal while surfing in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">She made a full recovery and went into the WSL finals at Cloudbreak in Fiji this week as No 1 seed.<\/p>\n<p><img  alt=\"Molly Picklum: &quot;This is the cherry on top of what I've done to my career.&quot; Photo \/ World Surf League\" class=\"article-media__image responsively-lazy\" data-test-ui=\"article-media__image\"\/>Molly Picklum: &#8220;This is the cherry on top of what I&#8217;ve done to my career.&#8221; Photo \/ World Surf League<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">In building surf at Cloudbreak, she came back after going down in the first of the three-heat title match against Caroline Marks, the American Olympic gold medallist and winner of the title in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">Picklum went back-to-back in title match two and three to claim her maiden world title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">While not at its barrelling best, Cloudbreak offered plenty of size with 2m waves for the finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI really feel like this is the cherry on top of what I\u2019ve done to my career and my personal life, really turning things around. It\u2019s such a trip and something you can never take away from me to be a world champion,\u201d she said at the prize giving at the nearby Fiji Marriott Resort Momi Bay.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">The day after the big win, Picklum had some advice for women surfers in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI\u2019m stoked to hear that there\u2019s plenty of female surfers over there in NZ. It\u2019s the most beautiful thing \u2013 surfing is a bucket-list thing, you\u2019ve got to try it, and feel the glide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">For those wanting to break into the competitive ranks, resilience is key.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIt takes a lot of resilience to achieve anything great in life; it takes a lot of setbacks and [then] rise time after time. Just keep chipping away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">In the men\u2019s event, Brazil\u2019s Yago Dora, who had also been very consistent this year, claimed victory at Cloudbreak to become the 2025 Lexus WSL Finals Fiji winner and world champion. <\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">It\u2019s Dora\u2019s first world title and he beat hard-charging Griffin Colapinto, from the US, to take the crown, only needing one match-up to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"From the New South Wales Central Coast, Picklum had 10 weeks out before the start of this year\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1665,95,2565,2559,2562,2566,2082,2347,2560,111,43,139,69,2561,180,2564,2558,2563,377,2557],"class_list":{"0":"post-1638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-and","10":"tag-bradley","11":"tag-champ","12":"tag-claims","13":"tag-fiji","14":"tag-for","15":"tag-grant","16":"tag-molly","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-picklum","22":"tag-shares","23":"tag-surfers","24":"tag-surfing","25":"tag-title","26":"tag-world","27":"tag-wsl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}