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Digital Camera World
Leonie Helm

This viral image from the Paris Olympics won gold at the World Sports Photography Awards 2025

Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina at the Paris Olympics 2024.

During the surfing competition of the 2024 Paris Olympics, everyone was talking about photographer Jerome Brouillet’s incredibly timed image of Brazilian surfer Gabriel Medina seemingly suspended in the air, next to this surfboard.

Brouillet’s image has now won this year’s World Sports Photography Awards. Tahiti-based Medina was captured the incredible photograph on the third day of the surfing event in Teahupo’o, French Polynesia.

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