Gabriel Medina - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Gabriel Medina net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! 2014. ASP World Tour champion who was the very first Brazilian to be awarded the title. He took home his title with the Billabong Pro Teahupoo, Fiji Pro as well as Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. In this article, we will discover how old is Gabriel Medina? Who is Gabriel Medina dating now & how much money does Gabriel Medina have?

Gabriel Medina Biography

Gabriel Medina is one of the most popular and richest Surfer who was born on December 22, 1993 in São Sebastião do Caí, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. He beat He beat out Kelly Slater, arguably the greatest surfer of all time, to win the 2014 ASP World Tour Championship., probably the best surfer of the past to take home this year’s ASP World Tour Championship.

Medina has been with his shaper Johnny Cabianca since 2008. Johnny Cabianca, a Brazilian living in the Basque Country, is one of the world’s most renowned surfboard shapers. Medina is using about 100 surfboards a year. Cabianca who previously shaped under the Spanish label Pukas, started his own brand in 2015. Medina’s first victory on a Cabianca Surfboard was the Quiksilver Pro France 2015.

Medina won many Brazilian amateur championships, becoming champion at the Volcom Sub-14, Quicksilver King of Groms, Rip Curl Grom Search, besides conquering the state championship three times. In California, he was second at the Volcom Internacional Sub-14, and in Ecuador, vice-champion of the Amateur World Sub-16 Championship. At 14 years old, Medina was already at the finals of the Paulista Championship, became the Paulista Junior Champion, and surfing the World Qualifying Series (WQS) 6-star event Onbongo Pro Surfing 2008 in Ubatuba, where he managed to defeat his idol Adriano de Souza, aka Mineirinho.

His birthplace was Sao Sebastiao, Sao Paulo, Brazil to Simone Medina. His siblings include Sophia Rodrigues and Felipe Medina.

He’s credited as being the second person in history to perform a backflip the board, but there has never been any in the course of competition.

Gabriel Medina Pinto Ferreira (born 22 December 1993) is a Brazilian professional surfer, also the 2014 and 2018 WSL World Champion. Medina joined the world’s elite of the World Surf League Tour in 2011, and in his rookie year he finished within the top 12 of the ASP (now WSL) World Tour at the age of 17. In March 2014 he won the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast. Media sources credit him as being the second person to have executed a maneuver called the “Backflip”. Medina also became the first person ever to land this move in competition.

Gabriel Medina Net Worth

Gabriel is one of the richest Surfer from Brazil. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Gabriel Medina's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

Surfing since age 9 he took home his very first National title two years later. He was the youngest surfer to take home the World Junior Tour at 15.

In 2013, Medina went on to win the World Junior Tour (ASP) in 2013, at age 19.

In the 2014 WCT season, by winning the very first event of the season, the Quiksilver Pro Gold Coast, Medina became the first Brazilian male surfer ever to win on the Gold Coast, and also the first goofy to win this contest since 2004 and less than two months after recovering from a broken leg injury suffered while surfing in Hawaii. He dropped to 5th on the rankings after finishing 13th on the Billabong Rio Pro, but re-assumed the pole after winning the Volcom Fiji Pro. Medina also won the Billabong Pro Teahupoo, the seventh WCT event of the season in Tahiti, beating in a highly competitive final Kelly Slater. Later in the year, after finishing in 2nd place in the last event of the season at the Billabong Pipeline Masters in Hawaii, Medina went on to become the first ever Brazilian ASP World Champion by the age of 20 (the youngest since Kelly Slater did also in age 20 in 1992).

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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In 2011 came the sequence of championships that took Medina to share the waves with the top surfers, surfing the WQS 6 Star Prime in Imbituba, and the two WQS 6 Star in France and Spain. He was also victorious in the Pro Junior World Championship, held in French waves. With his prowess and results in such a young age, Medina signed and extension contract with Rip Curl just in the same week of his debut on the 2011 ASP World Championship Tour, by the age of 17, by the mid-season rotation. Medina went on to finish his rookie season with two WCT events wins (Hossegor, France and San Francisco, USA), despite competing only half of the season.

Who is Gabriel Medina Dating?

According to our records, Gabriel Medina married to Yasmin Brunet (m. 2020). As of January 13, 2024, Gabriel Medina’s is not dating anyone.

In 2015, after a sequence of average results, Medina won the Quiksilver Pro France, capturing his sixth WCT event win and his second in Hossegor, France. After beating Mick Fanning and reaching the finals at the last WCT event of the season, the Billabong Pipe Masters in Hawaii, for the second straight year, Medina once again made history, becoming the first Brazilian ever to win the Hawaiian Triple Crown of Surfing title. With Adriano de Souza winning the other semifinal later and capturing the 2015 World Title (due to Fanning’s loss to Medina), the stage was set for a first time ever all Brazilian final at the Pipe Masters. Medina finished runner-up once again as de Souza became the first Brazilian ever to win the Hawaiian CT event. With this second place, Medina finished the 2015 WCT season on a high note, reaching the 3rd place.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Gabriel Medina height 5 ft 11 in Gabriel weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

In July 2009, Medina won a contract with Rip Curl, and thereafter endeavored to pursue a professional surfing career. Just 10 days later, Medina set a new mark as the youngest male winner of an open age pro competition by taking out the Maresias Surf International in Brazil by the age of 15 (That victory broke one of pro surfing’s longest-standing records, held by Australian Nick Wood, who won the 1987 Rip Curl Pro at Bells Beach as a 16-year-old).

On May 14, 2016, during the Oi Rio Pro, Medina made history once again, becoming the first surfer ever to land the move “Backflip” in competition. As a result, Medina got a perfect 10 in all five judges thus beating fellow countryman Alex Ribeiro in a 2nd round elimination heat. Medina went on to finish the competition in third place. On June 17, 2016, in the Fiji Islands, Medina won his seventh WCT event, his second in Cloudbreak, in heavy conditions. The win put him as the most victorious Brazilian surfer in the history of the CT only at the age of 22.

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Gabriel Ranked on the list of most popular Surfer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Brazil. Gabriel Medina celebrates birthday on December 22 of every year.

In the 2017 season, Medina made history as one of the two (Carissa Moore, on the women’s division) first-ever surfers to win a competition in man-made wave pool at Kelly Slater’s Surf Ranch in Lemoore, California. Medina later also managed to secure 2 more event wins (Quiksilver Pro France and MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal) reaching 9 WCT wins in his career, by the age of 23. Even though reaching the final event with title chances, Medina finished off the season in second place. With that Medina extends his streak of finishing the season in at least the Top 3 to an incredible four years, since his 2014 world title.

Is Gabriel Medina goofy?

Why did Gabriel Medina withdraw from pipe?

One week ago, Medina, who is twenty-eight, quit the tour just before the opening event at Pipe citing mental health issues. “I have emotional issues that I need to deal with.

Who is Gabriel Medina father?

Claudio de Jesus Ferreira

Why is Gabriel Medina famous?

In 2009, a 15-year-old Medina became the youngest surfer ever to win a major Qualifying Series event. By mid-2011, 17-year-old Medina qualified for the Championship Tour (along with John John Florence) and immediately took the spotlight with his high-flying acrobatic approach.

Who is the most famous surfer?

PHOTOS: Kelly Slater, the most famous surfer in the world, is from Cocoa Beach. Kelly Slater on the beach in Fiji. Slater, a Cocoa Beach native, has won 55 major titles. He is the most famous surfer in the world.

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