Add CategorySHE rode the waves alongside the likes of fellow world champions Pam Burridge and Wendy Botha but it was Pauline Menczer who claimed the top prize in surfing in 1993.
Menczer will tonight become the 40th Inductee into the Australian Surfing Hall of Fame at a gala awards night on the Gold Coast.
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Menczer, who started surfing in Sydney at the age of 12, joins the likes of Tom Carroll, Nat Young, Michael Petersen, pioneer Isabel Letham, Burridge, Layne Beachley and Stephanie Gilmore as an inductee.
Menczer, now 47, overcame the odds to become a champion of surfing with the surfer battling for years without a sponsor and with crippling rheumatoid arthritis which affected her from the age of 14.
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She was also recently honoured at a Sally Fitzgbibbons’ night to celebrate women in surfing.
Menczer came close to winning her first world crown in 1991 and 1992 but was beaten out by Botha before claiming the title in 1993.