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- Gabriel Medina (+300) is favored to win his fourth men’s World Surf League world title in 2025
- Caitlin Simmers (+350) is the chalk pick to capture back-to-back women’s titles
- The WSL Championship Tour begins at the Banzai Pipeline in Hawaii from January 27 – February 8
The World Surf League’s 2025 Championship Tour schedule includes 11 regular-season events before the men’s and women’s Top 5 surfers face off at the WSL Finals. For the first time since its debut in 2021, the WSL Finals will move locations from California to Fiji.
Before we examine the odds on who will capture the World Title on both the men’s and women’s competition, check out all the Sports & Competitions to bet on in 2025. Here’s also where you can see the latest Sports Betting Odds & Picks.
2025 WSL Men’s Champion
| Surfer |  |  |  |
| Gabriel Medina | +300 | +300 | +300 |
| Filipe Toledo | +400 | +400 | +400 |
| Griffin Colapinto | +600 | +600 | +600 |
| Jack Robinson | +600 | +600 | +600 |
| Ethan Ewing | +650 | +650 | +650 |
| Italo Ferreira | +700 | +700 | +700 |
| Yago Dora | +1200 | +1200 | +1200 |
| Joao Chianca | +1800 | +1800 | +1800 |
| Kanoa Igarashi | +3300 | +3300 | +3300 |
| Crosby Colapinto | +5000 | +5000 | +5000 |
| Jordy Smith | +5000 | +5000 | +5000 |
| Leonardo Fioravanti | +6600 | +6600 | +6600 |
| Rio Waida | +6600 | +6600 | +6600 |
| Cole Houshmand | +8000 | +8000 | +8000 |
| Barron Mamiya | +10000 | +10000 | +10000 |
Medina favored over Toledo
John John Florence captured his third men’s World Surf League championship in 2024. The mega-popular American surfer is not expected to compete on tour this season after becoming a father at 32. In his absence, Gabriel Medina (+300) is the odds-on favorite to claim his fourth title after winning in 2021, 2018 and 2014. Medina won the bronze medal at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games, where a photograph of him defying gravity went viral.
Fellow Brazilian Filipe Toledo (+400) is next on the board. After taking a year off the competition for a mental health break, the back-to-back world champion in 2022 and 2023 will hope to regain his championship form in 2025.
Congratulations to Jerome Brouillet who has won the World Sports Photography Awards 2024 with his viral photo ‘Golden Moment’ of Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina during the Paris Olympics! https://t.co/jTEMJYt1qr @WorldSportsPix pic.twitter.com/ufkEIXH67w
— Amateur Photographer (@AP_Magazine) January 10, 2025
Other contenders
Griffin Colapinto (+600) is friends with movie star Matthew McConaughey, which is kind of cool. The 26-year-old American finished third on the championship tour last year, picking up first-place finishes in Portugal and Fiji.
Jack Robinson (+600) claimed the silver medal for Australia at the Paris Olympics. The Australian finished fourth in the WSL standings in 2024, just ahead of countryman Ethan Ewing (+650). Robinson won the Hurley Pro Sunset Beach and the Western Australia Margaret River Pro last season.
2025 WSL Women’s Champion
| Surfer | | | |
| Caitlin Simmers | +350 | +350 | +350 |
| Caroline Marks | +400 | +400 | +400 |
| Erin Brooks | +400 | +400 | +400 |
| Molly Picklum | +600 | +600 | +600 |
| Tatiana Weston-Webb | +750 | +750 | +750 |
| Brisa Hennessy | +1400 | +1400 | +1400 |
| Stephanie Gilmore | +1400 | +1400 | +1400 |
| Bettylou Sakura Johnson | +1600 | +1600 | +1600 |
| Johanne Defay | +2000 | +2000 | +2000 |
| Tyler Wright | +2000 | +2000 | +2000 |
| Vahine Fierro | +3300 | +3300 | +3300 |
| Bella Kenworthy | +4000 | +4000 | +4000 |
| Gabriela Bryan | +5000 | +5000 | +5000 |
| Lakey Peterson | +5000 | +5000 | +5000 |
| Sawyer Lindblad | +5000 | +5000 | +5000 |
Simmers favored to repeat
Caitlin Simmers (+350) claimed her first title last year, becoming professional surfing’s youngest-ever world champion at 18. The California native won three tour events in 2024 before toppling reigning world champion Caroline Marks (+400) in the final. Don’t feel too bad for Marks, however. She’s coming off a gold medal performance in Paris.
18-year-old American surfer Caitlin Simmers is the youngest female surfing world champion at the World Surf League Finals. 🏄♀️🏆 #WSLFinals pic.twitter.com/aMs2bffvpL
— NBC Olympics & Paralympics (@NBCOlympics) September 9, 2024
New women’s surfing star?
Erin Brooks (+400) became the first-ever Canadian to win a Championship Tour surfing event in 2024. Even more impressive is that the 17-year-old accomplished the feat in her first ever event, defeating Olympic silver-medalist Tatiana Weston-Webb (+750) in the final of the Corona Fiji Pro.
Best Bets
On the men’s side, we’ll take Filipe Toledo (+400), the first Brazilian to capture back-to-back titles, to get back to his winning ways this season. Meanwhile, the women’s tour will surely come down to Simmers or Marks again. We’ll take Marks (+400) to score some payback in 2025.
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