Olympics surfing winners today: Who won medals Monday in the 2024 Paris Games in Tahiti?

Surfing medalists were finally crowned Monday at the 2024 Paris Olympics .

The action — which took place on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti in the Pacific Ocean — opened Monday with the semifinals. The winners and losers of those matches determined who will compete in the gold-and bronze-medal events later in the day.

The semifinals and finals were originally set for late last week, but were postponed due to a lack of wave conditions.

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American Caroline Marks faced Johanne Defay of France in the first women’s semifinal, followed by Tatiana Weston-Webb of Brazil vs. Brisa Hennessy of Costa Rica. On the men’s side, Peru’s Alonso Correa competed against France’s Kauli Vaast wile Brazil’s Gabriel Medina — the subject of perhaps the most viral photo of the 2024 Games — squared off against Australia’s Jack Robinson.

After debuting at the Tokyo Games, surfing has been a source of persistent curiosity from fans around the globe during the 2024 Paris Olympics, due at least in some part to its exotic location thousands of miles away from the French capital.

Olympics surfing winners today

With gold, silver and bronze medals on the line Monday, here’s a look at the results of the men’s and women’s semifinals, gold- and bronze-medal surfing matchups for the 2024 Paris Olympics in Tahiti:

All times Eastern and subject to change

Men’s semifinals

• Kauli Vaast (France) 10.96 def. Alonso Correa (Peru) 9.60
• Jack Robinson (Australia) 12.33 def. Gabriel Medina (Brazil) 6.33

Women’s semifinals

• Caroline Marks (USA) 12.17 def. Johanne Defay (France) 12.17 (tiebreaker)
• Tatiana Weston-Webb (Brazil) 13.66 def. Brisa Hennessy (Costa Rica) 6.17

Men’s bronze-medal match

• Gabriel Medina (Brazil) 15.54 def. Alonso Correa (Peru) 12.43

Women’s bronze-medal match

• Johanne Defay (France) 12.66 def. Brisa Hennessy (Costa Rica) 4.93

Men’s gold-medal match

• Kauli Vaast (France) 17.67 def. Jack Robinson (Australia) 7.83

Women’s gold-medal match

• Caroline Marks (USA) 10.50 def. Tatiana Weston-Webb (Brazil) 10.33

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What channel is surfing on at 2024 Paris Olympics?

• Streaming : NBC Olympics app | NBC app | NBCOlympics.com | Peacock

The men’s and women’s surfing semifinals and finals will not air on linear television. Instead, viewers can stream the events on the NBC Olympics app, NBCOlympics.com or Peacock .

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