The results are in. The readers have spoken. For the third consecutive year, and 13th overall, Kelly Slater claimed the top spot in the reader poll while Sofia Mulanovich took it home for the women. Full Results...

In 1963, SURFER Magazine held a semiformal banquet at a small restaurant in Capistrano Beach. There, the winners of the first reader-selected poll were announced, and from that night on, the Surfer Poll Awards became the surf world’s most prestigious evening, and the awards would come to represent the pinnacle of surf culture.

Ever since then, SURFER Magazine has repeated its call to readers to select the names of the world’s best surfers, and for decades those readers have continually answered. To win the Surfer Poll, one must capture the hearts and minds of the entire surfing world... > read more