Alexandra Rinder is a three-time world champion in bodyboarding!

"I brought it home! I brought it home!" she shouted at the top of her lungs. Alexandra Rinder was kneeling on the beach in Jacaraípe, Brazil, and emotions were simply overwhelming her. And there was a reason for that! She had just become the world bodyboarding champion as part of the IBC World Tour 2025.

This is already the third such title in her career. Only a few can boast of such an achievement.

Alexandra, who represents Austria but feels like a Canary Islander to the core, kept her promise. "I promised to bring the victory home," she said more calmly, kissing her trophy.

Interestingly, Rinder won her third title exactly ten years after the previous one, in 2015, and in the same month as her first victory in 2014, when she was only 16. Then she became the youngest champion in history.

This time, she was helped by stability throughout the IBC World Tour 2025, where the three best results out of four stages were taken into account. Alexandra missed the competition in Portugal to focus on those where she could earn more points. She started the year with second place in Morocco, and then won in Chile. So in Brazil, everything was decided in a duel with Japanese Namika Yamashita.

Alexandra just needed to repeat her rival's result. She successfully passed the first three rounds, but lost to a Portuguese woman in the quarterfinals. Now her fate depended on Namika's performance. These were very tense moments for Alexandra. She almost lost hope. But when a local athlete knocked Yamashita out, Rinder, who was anxiously watching this decisive race from the shore, simply burst with joy.

With a score of 12,350 points, she surpassed the Japanese woman with her 11,700 points and once again became the best bodyboarder in the world. "It was a very long and difficult year, but I promised myself to work, dedicate myself to the cause and be positive," said Alexandra. "I felt very good at the competition, but now I just want to call my parents and family to tell them the good news. And just enjoy this moment, because I did it! I brought the victory home!" Alexandra exclaimed emotionally, apologizing for her outburst of emotions.

In a few days, Rinder will return home as the newly minted world champion to participate in the European Tour BodyBoard (ETB) 2025 El Socorro, which will be held on the north coast of Tenerife from the 24th to the 28th of this month. It will be the best place for her to be honored by her own people.