WILLIAMS Ella

World Surfing Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
3	Shortboard	2015	Popoyo, NCA	10.33
4	Shortboard	2013	Santa Catalina, PAN	10.83
7	Shortboard	2017	Biarritz, FRA	3.40
9	Shortboard	2016	Jaco, CRC	10.94
29	Shortboard	2019	Miyazaki, JPN	4.63

WSL Championship Tour (Ranking)

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
23	Shortboard	2017		1750

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

Year	Shortboard
2017	1 x 13th

WSL Championship Tour - Ten best performances in last Olympic cycle

Rank	Year	Event	Location
13	2017	Shortboard	Bells Beach, VIC, AUS

Athlete

Partner Taygen

English

Her older brother Braedon has competed in surfing at national level in New Zealand. Her parents, father Dean and mother Janine, were managers with the New Zealand team at the 2019 World Surfing Games in Miyazaki, Japan. (nzherald.co.nz, 09 Jun 2018; olympic.org.nz, 01 Jan 2020)

She began surfing at age four in Raglan, New Zealand, and got her first board at age six. At age eight she wrote on a surf poster that she wanted to be the world champion and put it up on the wall beside her bed. "So every day when I woke up I saw it." (Facebook page, 07 Jan 2020; odt.co.nz, 14 Jan 2016; nzherald.co.nz, 09 Jun 2018)

She was introduced to surfing by her parents and her older brother. "It's a special place, out on the water. There's no technology, just you and the water, and it's a spiritual thing. If you're having a bad day and you get on the sea, even just for a swim, you feel so much better for it." (newsroom.co.nz, 14 May 2018)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (Facebook page, 07 Jan 2020)

She trains six days a week, beginning with weights, running stairs and spin classes, then surfing in the afternoon and boxing sessions in the evening. (nzherald.co.nz, 09 Jun 2018)

"Imagine big things, dream big and always believe in yourself." (nzherald.co.nz, 09 Jun 2018)