FILE PHOTO: Tyler Wright of Australia surfs during the women's World Surf League (WSL) championship at Guincho beach in Cascais, Portugal September 29, 2016. REUTERS/Rafael Marchante
(Reuters) - Australian Tyler Wright won the first women's tour title at Hawaii's famed Pipeline break on Sunday after the World Surf League event was moved because of fatal shark attack on a recreational surfer at the original venue.
Wright's victory in the Maui Pro was followed by another breakthrough triumph when John John Florence finally claimed a win at his home break, having first competed in the Pipeline Masters as a 13-year-old prodigy in 2005.
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