About the Nazaré 2020 Record Ride
In October 2020, the German surfer Sebastian Steudtner rode a wave at Praia do Norte in Nazaré that was widely reported as the biggest wave anyone had ridden up to that time. It is said to have been bigger than an earlier record-setting wave, also ridden on this beach. The swell that day is widely linked to Hurricane Epsilon, whose remains are reported to have merged with another storm over the North Atlantic. Swells of this size are rare, and they tend to draw big-wave teams from many countries to the town. As is common on the biggest days here, surfers were generally towed into the waves by jet skis, and news coverage described large crowds watching from the headland. Earlier the same year, the Brazilian surfer Maya Gabeira rode a wave here that was reported as the biggest ever ridden by a woman at the time.
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