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30 surfing high performance E Total investment 201415 1789118 high performance 925000 participation 586600 other 277518 ASC funding as a percentage of total income 34 Surfing Australia has been rated as excelling. The 2014 womens surfing world tour saw three Australians Stephanie Gilmore Tyler Wright and Sally Fitzgibbons in the running for the title. Gilmore did enough in the last event to win her sixth world title holding off Wright who repeated her second-place performance from 2013. Fitzgibbons slipped off the podium into fourth place. The mens event came down to the last event of the year. Australian Mick Fanning was in contention but unfortunately was unable to chase down the young Brazilian Gabriel Medina who won his first world title and the first for his country. Joel Parkinson was also in podium contention until the last event but eventually placed sixth. Overall Australia had four of the top 10 surfers in the world. Like in the womens event Australia finished with four of the top 10 surfers in the world. Surfing Australias high performance program continues to play a significant role in the success of Australian surfers on the world stage. The support offered at seven of the events and the ever-expanding services provided by the high performance centre has been critical in maintaining Australias status as the number one surfing nation worldwide. governance Surfing Australia has continued to work towards adopting the ASCs mandatory sports governance principles and performs well in most areas when benchmarked against Australias Winning Edge sports. With continued changes in some areas it will progress well towards achieving the benchmark. 2014 benchmark event world tour medal target 3 to 4 actual gold 1 silver 2 bronze 0 total 3