{"id":33784,"date":"2016-08-18T14:29:51","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T14:29:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/?p=33784"},"modified":"2026-03-31T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:57:43","slug":"surfers-making-history-peru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/","title":{"rendered":"Why these surfers are making history in Peru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update March 2026:<\/strong> This article has been editorially reviewed and updated with current information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"evm-last-updated\"><em>Last updated: March 2026<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">NEWS<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This fantastic video shows all the details.\u00a0<\/strong>After eight days of competition at the INS ISA world surfing games in Playa Jac\u00f3, Costa Rica, team Peru takes home the golden trophy. Tia Blanco wins for the USA and argentino Leandro Usuna wins his second mens-gold. And even ISA-president Fenando Aguerre expresses his excitement about the final in a very emotional way: <em>\u201eCongratulations to the winners of the team gold medal, team Peru and the single gold winners Tia Blanco and Leandro Usuna. Tia and Leandro are going down in history as the first ISA-goldmedal-winners of the olympic surf championship. Just as their competition, they surfed with real olympic spirit in honour of their country.\u201c\u00a0<\/em> <strong>A historic moment<\/strong> And it goes on without a pause for breath: right after the decision of the IOC to welcome surfing as a olympic discipline, the competitors are eagerly awaiting the 2020 games in Tokyo. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>Source Picture: Facebook \/\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/TheInertia\/videos\/1233393413367141\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Inertia<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuZmFjZWJvb2suY29tJTJGcGx1Z2lucyUyRnZpZGVvLnBocCUzRmhyZWYlM0RodHRwcyUyNTNBJTI1MkYlMjUyRnd3dy5mYWNlYm9vay5jb20lMjUyRlRoZUluZXJ0aWElMjUyRnZpZGVvcyUyNTJGMTIzMzM5MzQxMzM2NzE0MSUyNTJGJTI2c2hvd190ZXh0JTNEMCUyNndpZHRoJTNENTYwJTIyJTIwd2lkdGglM0QlMjI1NjAlMjIlMjBoZWlnaHQlM0QlMjIzMTUlMjIlMjBzdHlsZSUzRCUyMmJvcmRlciUzQW5vbmUlM0JvdmVyZmxvdyUzQWhpZGRlbiUyMiUyMHNjcm9sbGluZyUzRCUyMm5vJTIyJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dUcmFuc3BhcmVuY3klM0QlMjJ0cnVlJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dGdWxsU2NyZWVuJTNEJTIydHJ1ZSUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRmlmcmFtZSUzRQ==<\/p>\n<h4>You might also like<\/h4>\n[custom-facebook-feed]\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/action-sports\/\">Alec Chizhik<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\">STATEMENT<\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Team Peru has made it to the top and has left the favorites Portugal, Costa Rica and France right in the back. We\u2019re curious how this advantage is going to have an effect on the 2020 olympic games in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<h4>YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":33786,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_yoast_wpseo_focuskw":"Surfers in Peru","_yoast_wpseo_title":"Why these surfers are making history in Peru","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This fantastic","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","ibs_difficulty":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[416],"tags":[578,670],"class_list":["post-33784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-water-sports-en","tag-events","tag-surfing"],"wpml_language":"en","wpml_translation_of":null,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Why these surfers are making history in Peru<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This fantastic\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Why these surfers are making history in Peru\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This fantastic\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"InspiredBySports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-08-18T14:29:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-03-31T07:57:43+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1078\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"671\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Alec Chizhik\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Alec Chizhik\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Alec Chizhik\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1f0303a1f8f6653c3b7a096c6f515539\"},\"headline\":\"Why these surfers are making history in Peru\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-08-18T14:29:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-31T07:57:43+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/\"},\"wordCount\":300,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Events\",\"Surfing\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Water Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/\",\"name\":\"Why these surfers are making history in Peru\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-08-18T14:29:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-03-31T07:57:43+00:00\",\"description\":\"Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This fantastic\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png\",\"width\":1078,\"height\":671,\"caption\":\"Why these surfers are making history in Peru\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/new\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Why these surfers are making history in Peru\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/\",\"name\":\"InspiredBySports\",\"description\":\"Sport-Magazin f\u00fcr Fitness, Yoga, Wassersport und Actionsport\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"InspiredBySports\",\"alternateName\":\"IBS\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/InspiredBySports-Logo-300x300.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/InspiredBySports-Logo-300x300.png\",\"width\":300,\"height\":300,\"caption\":\"InspiredBySports\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/inspiredbysports\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1f0303a1f8f6653c3b7a096c6f515539\",\"name\":\"Alec Chizhik\",\"description\":\"Alec is Chief Digital Officer at Evernine, writing about cloud architecture, IT security, and digital operations.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alecchizhik\/\"]}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Why these surfers are making history in Peru","description":"Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This fantastic","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Why these surfers are making history in Peru","og_description":"Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This fantastic","og_url":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/","og_site_name":"InspiredBySports","article_published_time":"2016-08-18T14:29:51+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-03-31T07:57:43+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1078,"height":671,"url":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Alec Chizhik","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Alec Chizhik","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/"},"author":{"name":"Alec Chizhik","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1f0303a1f8f6653c3b7a096c6f515539"},"headline":"Why these surfers are making history in Peru","datePublished":"2016-08-18T14:29:51+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-31T07:57:43+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/"},"wordCount":300,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png","keywords":["Events","Surfing"],"articleSection":["Water Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/","url":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/","name":"Why these surfers are making history in Peru","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png","datePublished":"2016-08-18T14:29:51+00:00","dateModified":"2026-03-31T07:57:43+00:00","description":"Over 27 nations from all over the world came together in Peru from august 6th until 14th to make history at the ISA world surfing games. This fantastic","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/ISA.png","width":1078,"height":671,"caption":"Why these surfers are making history in Peru"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/surfers-making-history-peru\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/new\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Why these surfers are making history in Peru"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/","name":"InspiredBySports","description":"Sport-Magazin f\u00fcr Fitness, Yoga, Wassersport und Actionsport","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#organization","name":"InspiredBySports","alternateName":"IBS","url":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/InspiredBySports-Logo-300x300.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/InspiredBySports-Logo-300x300.png","width":300,"height":300,"caption":"InspiredBySports"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/inspiredbysports\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1f0303a1f8f6653c3b7a096c6f515539","name":"Alec Chizhik","description":"Alec is Chief Digital Officer at Evernine, writing about cloud architecture, IT security, and digital operations.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/alecchizhik\/"]}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33784"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62216,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33784\/revisions\/62216"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspiredbysports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}