World Windsurf Tour's Fiji Surf Pro Day 1
by International Windsurfing Tour 9 Jun 11:32 BST
9-11 June 2026
World Windsurf Tour's Fiji Surf Pro Day 2 © Maleen Hoekstra and Malte Øgelund
The World Windsurf Tour's Fiji Surf Pro is under way at one of the most revered and feared waves on the planet, with Cloudbreak delivering dreamlike pacific power and perfection waves for the DREAM TOUR — and the WWT delivering a broadcast first, going live across Fiji and the South Pacific on FBC Sports for more than two hours of competition.
The powerful Pacific swell built steadily throughout the afternoon, and by the final heat of the day sets with 8-to-12-foot faces were unloading onto the reef with the kind of raw power only this place can produce, the biggest waves pushing toward mast-high. Twenty knots of wind loaded every wave with energy, and with multiple swells converging on the break, reading the ocean became as important as the riding itself.
Day One saw the men's Challenger qualifying rounds completed, and the first of three women's finals decided — every heat running on time and on schedule, kilometres from the mainland on the wild Cloudbreak reef.
Men's Challenger Round 1 — Heat 1
Australia's Logan Haggerstrom opened his Fiji campaign in style, topping the heat with an 11.24 to edge out Ireland's Finn Mellon, who posted a highly competitive 11.03. The two went wave for wave throughout, both threading close to the reef to find the best sections, while Australia's Michael Westra (8.07) and Denmark's Malte Øgelund (3.27) fought hard in the remaining positions. With scores this tight in the opening round, the men's draw is wide open.
Men's Challenger Round 1 — Heat 2
Australia's Duncan Osborn with team HotSails was the standout from the opening exchanges, carving powerful lines up the long Cloudbreak walls and building a lead nobody could close, finishing on 9.23. Ireland's Jony Price came out swinging — throwing committed goiters that he couldn't quite land — and the high-risk approach kept his scores just below what he needed. Australia's Peter Puhl found his rhythm mid-heat, posting two solid scores for an 8.37 that moved him ahead of Price (6.94), with countryman Jason Juretic (4.97) rounding out the heat. Osborn advances on top, composed and in control.
Men's Challenger Round 2 — Heat 1
The second qualifying round produced the standout individual performance of the men's day. Michael Westra came out transformed from his Round 1 outing, attacking the biggest sets of the afternoon and stringing together critical turns in the most powerful sections of the wave to post a 13.47 — the highest men's heat total of Day One. Jony Price again showed flashes of brilliance for a 7.87, but it was Westra's day, and his statement ride sends a clear message to the rest of the Challenger field heading into the next round.
Women's Final 1 — Heat 1
The women's title at the Fiji Surf Pro will be decided over a best-of-three final series, and Australia's Jane Seman made her intentions clear from the very first exchange of Final 1. She caught a solid over-mast-high set wave early and drove straight into the pocket, staying locked inside the most critical section of the wave for the duration of the ride. From there she simply got better — finding bigger waves, going deeper, and making it look inevitable on her way to a commanding 16.70, the highest heat total of the entire day across both fleets. Nobody came close.
Behind her, Australia's Sarah Kenyon and Spain's Maria Andrés with team HotSails fought a close and technical battle for second. Kenyon surfed with fluid style, but the ocean wasn't giving her the waves to match it. Andrés was more clinical — a powerful top-turn-to-bottom-turn combination on well-selected waves earned her the scores she needed. Andrés takes second on 11.94, Kenyon third on 11.23. Two finals remain — and with them, everything still to play for.
A broadcast first for the tour
Day One marked a breakthrough moment for the World Windsurf Tour: for the first time, competition was broadcast live on free-to-air television, with FBC Sports (FBC-2) — the Fijian Broadcasting Corporation's sports channel — carrying more than two hours of live action across Fiji and the wider South Pacific, reaching a potential audience of 1.7 million viewers.
It is a landmark for professional windsurfing and for the Tour's broadcast-first vision — world-class competition at one of the world's great waves, delivered live into living rooms across the region.
A technical issue affected the simultaneous YouTube stream during Day One. This has been resolved, and the global stream will run in full alongside the FBC broadcast for the remainder of the event.
The three-day broadcast
Day 1 - Qualifying - Yesterday
TUESDAY 9 JUNE 6-8ft Tuesday - The Challenger rounds fire up. Riders battle for the four golden tickets into the main seeding bracket. LIVE.
Day 2 - Seeding - Today
WEDNESDAY 10 JUNE 8-10ft Wednesday - The big names enter. The R4 Seeding heats hit the water as the swell fills in. LIVE.
Day 3 - Finals day - Tomorrow
THURSDAY 11 JUNE — peaking at 8-12ft (2x overhead) on Thursday's Finals Day. Peak swell. Redemption rounds, both Semifinals, and the Women's and Men's Finals - crowning the 2026 FIJI Surf Pro Champions in pumping Cloudbreak.
Live broadcast on TV!
The full FIJI Surf Pro broadcast streams live right here at the WWT Hub.
Supported by FIJI Surf Co., FIJI Airways, FIJI Tourism, Corona, Tabanivono, Vodafone, FBC Sports, AquaSafe, Selah Fiji, and Bay View Cove.
Schedule update - Heat Scores Live - Broadcast link