A brand new international checklist for the most important wave ever ridden via a girl has been set via Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira. It used to be a monstrous wave measured at 73.Five ft at Nazare, Portugal – the similar surf ruin the place she just about died in 2013.

The XXL Giant Wave Awards, in most cases held in Orange County or the South Bay, have been canceled this yr because of the coronavirus pandemic. As an alternative, the Global Surf League has been freeing the celebrated awards on-line, with Gabeira’s Guinness Global File introduced Thursday, Sept. 10,  together with the girl’s Experience of the Yr and Efficiency of the Yr, which went to French surfer Justine Dupont.

Gabeira’s wave used to be additionally 3.Five ft taller than the most important wave ridden via a male for the yr: Hawaiian Kai Lenny.

“This Global File in point of fact moves me as reasonably superb since the dimension of the wave used to be measured taller than the lads’s dimension for the winner, so it method a girl in fact rode the most important wave of the yr general,” Gabeira stated. “That to me used to be one thing I had dreamed of years in the past, however now not as one thing real looking.

“That is observed as a particularly male-dominated game,” she stated, “so as to have a girl be capable of constitute, this is reasonably uncommon.”

Gabeira’s record-breaking wave used to be ridden throughout the WSL Nazare Tow Surfing contest on Feb. 11. It bested the former international checklist of 68 ft from the similar surf ruin, a checklist she additionally held.

“Even if I say I’m now not a aggressive individual, I used to be very within the zone and braver than I in most cases am on these days,” Gabeira stated in a statement. “I used to be risking greater than I in most cases find irresistible to do. After I let pass of the rope, I had a sense it might be the only, however wasn’t certain. The rate used to be very top, however the noise that the wave made when it broke made me notice that this used to be more than likely the most important wave I’d ever ridden.”

Gabeira just about misplaced her existence at Nazare, a famend surf spot just a handful of surfers can take on. Her wipe out used to be captured on digital camera and illustrated simply how death-defying the waves can also be when large swells hit.