• Sydney surfer recognised at SURFER 2024 Big Wave Challenge Awards
• Enever’s 13.3m wave was a world record for biggest surfed by a woman

Australian surf star, Laura Enever, has been crowned female Surfer of the Year at the 2024 SURFER Big Wave Challenge Awards in Nazaré, Portugal.

The awards ceremony celebrates the world’s best big-wave surfers and the photographers and videographers who capture them in action. Enever was the only Australian woman to be nominated in any category.