Teahupo’o hosted the men’s shortboard final at the 2024 Olympic Games in French Polynesia.
The break is located on the southwestern coast of Tahiti, part of French Polynesia. Olympic surfing was staged there rather than in metropolitan France because Tahiti offered a powerful, internationally recognized reef wave. The venue was among the most geographically distant Olympic competition sites from the host city, Paris.
Teahupo’o is famous for thick, heavy waves that break over a shallow coral reef. Its name is commonly translated as “place of skulls,” although translations and historical explanations vary.
French Polynesian surfer Kauli Vaast won the men’s gold medal at Teahupo’o. Caroline Marks won the women’s gold medal in the separate women’s shortboard competition.