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Who's Really Surfing's Youngest World Champion?

Who's Really Surfing's Youngest World Champion?

With her demonstrative win at the WSL Finals, 18-year-old Caity Simmers became the youngest women’s world champion in history…sort of. The convoluted history of early professional surfing and its subsequent evolution isn’t quite that cut and try.

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