Tatiana Weston-Webb
Tatiana Guimaraes Weston-Webb dos Santos (born May 9, 1996) is a Brazilian–American surfer based in Kauai, Hawaii. She was the only rookie on the WCT (professional surfing) (World Championship Tour) in 2015. Weston-Webb wears jersey number 9 and her 2016 'CT rank is number 4. She was a competitor in the 2020 Summer Olympics, competing for Brazil. Personal life. Weston-Webb's father, Douglas Weston-Webb, was born in England, a descendant of a family engaged in the textile business. The Weston-Webb name is a heritable double-barrelled surname, created through the marriage  of two children of significant families in that industry. He was moved at an early age to the U.S. state of Florida, where he was raised. He learned to surf at age 8 and later became a "surf bum" and relocated to Kauai in his 20s. Weston-Webb's mother, Tanira Weston-Webb (), was a Brazilian professional body boarder, under sponsorship by two industry companies. Tanira's sister, Andrea Guimaraes, was also a body boarder. Douglas and Tanira met while she was in Hawaii. They moved to Brazil, where Tatiana was born in 1996, in Porto Alegre. Because of her  father's birth in the United Kingdom, Tatiana also automatically acquired British citizenship by descent at birth. However, she has not applied for a British passport and her father has not renewed his in many years. Within two months of her birth in Brazil, Weston-Webb and her parents moved to Hawaii. At age 8, while watching her older brother Troy surf, Tatiana decided to take up the sport as well. Surfing became a competition between the children, and Tatiana received her first surfboard soon afterward. In 2020, she married longtime boyfriend Jesse Mendes dos Santos, a Brazilian fellow professional  surfer from Guarujá, São Paulo, who competes under the name Jesse Mendes, in an intimate beachfront ceremony held at the Princeville Resort, a Kauai hotel her father had worked at for many years, after the security guard allowed them to use the otherwise expensive site at no cost during the property's renovation. Competition background. In 2015 Weston-Webb secured a spot in the World Championship Tour. On April 29, 2018 she announced her switch over to Brazil representation for the remainder of the 2018 WSL Championship Tour season, aiming to compete representing her native country in the 2020 Olympic  Games in Tokyo, one of her dreams since surfing was announced as an official Olympic sport.