TSUZUKI Amuro

Date of Birth: 5 Apr 2001

Age: 20

Gender: Female

Place of birth: TOKOROZAWA

Birth Country:

Japan

Place of residence : FUJISAWA

Residence Country:

Japan

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Surfing	Women	3

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach	Women's Round 1 - Heat 4	Finished
	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach	Women's Round 2 - Heat 1	Finished
	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach	Women's Round 3 - Heat 7 BRA WESTON-WEBB TWESTON-WEBB Tatiana 9.00 JPN TSUZUKI ATSUZUKI Amuro 10.33	Finished
	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach	Women's Quarterfinals - Heat 4 JPN TSUZUKI ATSUZUKI Amuro 13.27 AUS FITZGIBBONS SFITZGIBBONS Sally 11.67	Finished
	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach	Women's Semifinals - Heat 2 USA MOORE CMOORE Carissa 8.33 JPN TSUZUKI ATSUZUKI Amuro 7.43	Finished
	Tsurigasaki Surfing Beach	Women's Bronze Medal Match USA MARKS CMARKS Caroline 4.26 JPN TSUZUKI ATSUZUKI Amuro 6.80	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Surfing Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
9	Shortboard	2021	El Sunzal, ESA	8.36

WSL Championship Tour overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2017

Year	Shortboard
2021	1 x 5th, 2 x 9th, 1 x 17th

WSL Championship Tour - Ten best performances in last Olympic cycle

Rank	Year	Event	Location
5	2021	Shortboard	Rottnest, WA, AUS
9	2021	Shortboard	Margaret River, WA, AUS
9	2021	Shortboard	Narrabeen, NSW, AUS
17	2021	Shortboard	Lemoore, CA, USA

WSL World Junior Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Shortboard	2019	T'ai-tung, TPE	13.00

Amu-chan (surfmagazine.jp, 27 Jul 2020; surfmedia.jp, 01 Jul 2020)

Watching movies. (sponichi.co.jp, 19 Aug 2020)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

English, Japanese

Wade Sharp [national], RSA

Other sports:

Her older brother Momoto Tsuzuki is a professional surfer. (worldsurfleague.com, 2021; surfmedia.jp, 26 Jul 2017)

She began surfing at age 10, started competing at age 11, and turned professional at age 15. (Sponichi Channel YouTube channel, 19 Aug 2020; mgjapan.com, 08 Oct 2020; sports.smt.docomo.ne.jp, 02 Oct 2020; ripcurl.eu, 27 Feb 2020)

She originally got involved in classical ballet, but stopped in order to follow her father and older brother into surfing. "I started competing just a year after I first went surfing. I was 11 years old when I surfed my first contest. As soon as I surfed I knew that I really liked it, but I figured out pretty quickly that I wanted to compete. I started entering contests and it was a natural progression to competing on the QS, because I knew that I wanted to be on the World Tour." (surfmedia.jp, 26 Jul 2017; sports.smt.docomo.ne.jp, 02 Oct 2020; ripcurl.eu, 27 Feb 2020)

To win a world title, and compete at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (surfmedia.jp, 01 Jul 2020)

Winning the 2019 Classic Surf Pro in Spain. (surfmedia.jp, 01 Jul 2020)

Her parents. (surfmagazine.jp, 27 Jul 2020)

Her father Kumio, mother Yoshiko and two brothers Momoto and Ten. (surfmedia.jp, 01 Jul 2020; surfmedia.jp, 26 Jul 2017)

In 2019 she was named Women's Surfer of the Year at the Japan Action Sports Awards. (surfnews.jp, 22 Sep 2019)

General Interest

Preferred stance
Regular (surfmedia.jp, 01 Jul 2020)

General
RISE TO FAME
In 2019 she became the first female Japanese surfer to qualify for the Championship Tour. She said this resulted in a lot more attention. "I went quite a long time without really making a big splash in contests - I was doing okay, but I wasn't winning. And then all of a sudden last year [2019] everything went BOOM in Europe, and it all just happened. I was already thinking that I wouldn't have a chance at qualifying, and I had the mindset that even if I couldn't qualify I would just keep trying harder and harder until I got there. But it all just happened last year, like a big explosion. Things definitely have changed for me at home. There is a lot of news and noise around the fact that I'm the first Japanese female to qualify, especially because of the Olympics. But it doesn't matter, it doesn't affect me - I am just very happy." (ripcurl.eu, 27 Feb 2020)

HOME BREAK
Her home beach is Sagami Bay in Japan, but there are no waves there so she typically surfs in Chiba. "I am from a place called Shonan, which is basically in the middle on the eastern side of the South Island. It's on the coast of Sagami Bay in Kanagawa Prefecture. My home is always flat - Sagami Bay doesn't have any good waves. Because of this I was always moving around to go surfing, getting in the car and driving. I first learnt to surf when I was 10 years old at Chiba, and that's where I surf most of the time now. It takes about two hours by car to get to the surf." (ripcurl.eu, 27 Feb 2020)

Milestones

In 2019 she became the first female Japanese surfer to qualify for the Championship Tour [CT] ahead of the 2020 season. (worldsurfleague.com, 04 Sep 2019; murmur-mag.com, 15 Jun 2020; imgjapan.com, 08 Oct 2020; english.kyodonews.net, 21 Dec 2019; olympics.com, 04 Dec 2019)

She became the first Japanese female surfer to win the WSL world junior championship title, following her victory at the 2019 Taiwan Open. (ripcurl.com, 02 Dec 2019; Sponichi Channel YouTube channel, 19 Aug 2020)

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/amurotsuzuki/
https://instagram.com/amurotsuzuki/

Legend

:: Bronze Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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