Olympic gold medallist Carissa Moore will rejoin surfing's world tour in 2026 after giving birth to a baby girl earlier this year, the World Surf League said on Thursday.

The five-times world champion's last competitive appearance was at the Paris Olympics, where she lost out in the quarter-finals while two months pregnant.

"To put my jersey back on after having a baby feels like such a win," Hawaii's Moore said. "I want my journey to show my daughter, and hopefully other women, that we can do anything; we can keep chasing our dreams, even as life evolves."

The 33-year-old won surfing's first Olympic gold medal at the Tokyo Games in 2021 and she returns to the sport with a home Olympics on the horizon in Los Angeles in 2028.

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