STORY: Brazil's Lucas "Chumbo" Chianca survived two brutal wipeouts to claim another Nazare Big Wave Challenge title in huge, clean waves in Portugal on Saturday (December 13), while France's Justine Dupont sealed her reputation as the world's best female big wave surfer with a second straight win.

The unique event saw waves of up to 60 feet in front of thousands of fans lining the cliffs at Praia do Norte near the Portuguese fishing town of Nazare that has become synonymous with enormous surf.

Multiple-time event winner Chianca set the tone with the very first wave of the competition, speeding down a giant left-hander in front of the headland before hitting some turbulence and cartwheeling into oblivion.

Chianca's second scoring wave ended in similarly savage fashion as he tried to exit another towering left-hander but was sucked over the falls and copped several more waves on the head before he could be picked up by a rescue jet ski.

Dupont rode her top two scoring waves successfully, both long left-handers that allowed her to show off some big carves.

The waves at Praia do Norte are amplified by the Nazare Canyon, Europe's largest undersea trench, which funnels and amplifies already-huge North Atlantic winter swells into towering peaks. Several world records for the largest waves ever surfed have been set there.

The competition was called off before a planned second round after an early fog delay and a second hiccup caused by a power outage at the contest site. The final event results were taken from the completed first round of competition.

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SHOWS: NAZARE, PORTUGAL (DECEMBER 13, 2025) (RED BULL CONTENT POOL - No resales, no new uses after six months from date content is downloaded from Reuters, no more than 70% of this video content may be used on YouTube)

1. VARIOUS VIEWS OF CLIFFS OF PRAIA DO NORTE

2. VARIOUS OF SURFERS IN ACTION DURING NAZARE BIG WAVE CHALLENGE

3. LUCAS "CHUMBO" CHIANCA WORKING ON HIS SURF BOARD

4. CHIANCA WALKING PAST

5. CHIANCA IN ACTION

6. CHIANCA WIPING OUT

7. CHIANCA AFTERWARDS ON SHORELINE GIVING THUMBS UP

8. VARIOUS OF JUSTINE DUPONT GETTING READY FOR ACTION

9. DUPONT PUSHING OUT JET SKI

10. DUPONT IN ACTION

11. VARIOUS OF DUPONT TROPHY LIFT WITH HER YOUNG SON

12. VARIOUS OF CHIANCA TROPHY LIFT