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SURFING · EVENT PRIZE MONEY · JEFFREYS BAY, SOUTH AFRICA

Jeffreys Bay surfing prize money

Jeffreys Bay has paid £6,229,474 across 13 editions from 2008 to 2025. In 2025 Connor O'Leary and Gabriela Bryan took £75,188 each.

PAID IN TOTAL£6.2m
EDITIONS13
2025 TOP PRIZE£75k
SURFERS PAID181
RANK8 of 32

Every edition

Who won, what they took, and what the edition paid in all

Every edition of Jeffreys Bay with its winner, the winner's prize and the total paid.
YEAR WINNER TOP PRIZE PAID
2025 Connor O'Leary, Gabriela Bryan £75,188£75k £680,451£680k
2023 Filipe Toledo, Lakey Peterson £75,188£75k £680,451£680k
2022 Ethan Ewing, Tatiana Weston-Webb £75,188£75k £680,451£680k
2019 Gabriel Medina, Carissa Moore £75,188£75k £773,383£773k
2018 Filipe Toledo, Stephanie Gilmore £75,188£75k £685,489£685k
2017 Filipe Toledo £75,188£75k £435,338£435k
2016 Mick Fanning £75,188£75k £414,286£414k
2015 - £394,737£395k
2014 Mick Fanning £75,188£75k £375,940£376k
2011 Jordy Smith £56,391£56k £319,549£320k
2010 Jordy Smith £37,594£38k £300,752£301k
2009 Joel Parkinson £30,075£30k £255,639£256k
2008 Kelly Slater £22,556£23k £233,007£233k

Prize money paid, edition by edition

The Corona Cero Open J-Bay payouts

What each finishing place was worth at the latest edition

Prize money by finishing place at the Corona Cero Open J-Bay.
PLACE SURFERS EACH BAND TOTAL
Men's Winner 1 £75,188£75k £75,188£75k
Men's Runner-up 1 £47,368£47k £47,368£47k
Men's 3rd 2 £30,075£30k £60,150£60k
Men's 5th 4 £15,038£15k £60,150£60k
Men's 9th 8 £10,150£10k £81,203£81k
Men's 17th 8 £9,117£9k £72,932£73k
Women's Winner 1 £75,188£75k £75,188£75k
Women's Runner-up 1 £47,368£47k £47,368£47k
Women's 3rd 2 £30,075£30k £60,150£60k
Women's 5th 4 £15,038£15k £60,150£60k
Women's 9th 4 £10,150£10k £40,602£41k

Every cheque by name is on the Corona Cero Open J-Bay payouts page.

Who has earned the most at Jeffreys Bay

Prize money won here, across every edition we hold

The surfers who have won the most prize money at Jeffreys Bay.
# SURFER NATION WINS PRIZE MONEY
1 Filipe Toledo Brazil 3 £314,662£315k
2 Mick Fanning Australia 2 £261,579£262k
3 Jordy Smith South Africa 2 £210,000£210k
4 Gabriel Medina Brazil 1 £173,308£173k
5 Lakey Peterson United States 1 £166,541£167k
6 Ethan Ewing Australia 1 £145,113£145k
7 Carissa Moore Hawaii 1 £143,985£144k
8 Julian Wilson Australia 0 £129,887£130k
9 Kanoa Igarashi Japan 0 £126,692£127k
10 Connor O'Leary Japan 1 £122,556£123k
11 Joel Parkinson Australia 1 £117,820£118k
12 Kelly Slater United States 1 £112,801£113k
13 Tatiana Weston-Webb Brazil 1 £111,729£112k
14 Yago Dora Brazil 0 £109,023£109k
15 Italo Ferreira Brazil 0 £107,613£108k
16 Stephanie Gilmore Australia 1 £107,519£108k
17 Gabriela Bryan Hawaii 1 £105,263£105k
18 Molly Picklum Australia 0 £94,737£95k
19 Tyler Wright Australia 0 £92,481£92k
20 Caroline Marks United States 0 £91,353£91k
21 Adriano de Souza Brazil 0 £84,474£84k
22 Adrian Buchan Australia 0 £83,008£83k
23 Michel Bourez France 0 £73,797£74k
24 Kolohe Andino United States 0 £73,026£73k
25 Jack Robinson Australia 0 £72,556£73k

Other surfing events

The events either side of Jeffreys Bay by prize money paid

Surfing events ranked around Jeffreys Bay.
# EVENT EDITIONS PAID
28 Beachley Classic 5 £419,549£420k
29 Puerto Rico 1 £375,940£376k
30 San Francisco 1 £319,549£320k
31 Santa Cruz 1 £319,549£320k
32 Peru 3 £195,113£195k
1 Bells Beach 17 £9,812,137£9.8m
2 Saquarema 15 £8,795,340£8.8m
3 Portugal 15 £8,386,046£8.4m
4 Margaret River 13 £8,286,723£8.3m
5 Pipeline 17 £8,112,813£8.1m
6 Teahupoo 17 £7,792,257£7.8m
7 Gold Coast 14 £7,570,964£7.6m
8 Jeffreys Bay 13 £6,229,474£6.2m
9 France 12 £5,976,016£6.0m
10 Trestles 12 £5,780,753£5.8m
11 Fiji 9 £4,758,723£4.8m
12 El Salvador 5 £3,515,023£3.5m
13 Surf Ranch 4 £2,739,323£2.7m
14 Sunset Beach 5 £2,378,993£2.4m
15 Bali 4 £2,026,692£2.0m
16 Maui 7 £1,422,707£1.4m
17 Huntington Beach 8 £1,294,286£1.3m
18 New Zealand 5 £1,087,218£1.1m
19 Santa Catarina 3 £763,233£763k

Frequently asked questions

How much did the winner get at the Corona Cero Open J-Bay?

Connor O'Leary and Gabriela Bryan took £75,188 each. The whole edition paid £680,451 across 36 surfers.

How much prize money has Jeffreys Bay paid?

£6,229,474 across 13 editions from 2008 to 2025. The richest was the Corona Open J-Bay, at £773,383.

Who has won the most money at Jeffreys Bay?

Filipe Toledo, with £314,662 and 3 wins. Mick Fanning is next on £261,579.

Who has won Jeffreys Bay the most times?

Filipe Toledo, 3 times in the editions we hold.

Where does Jeffreys Bay rank for prize money?

8th of the 32 surfing events we hold, by total prize money paid.

Where to next

Every surfing event and surfer is ranked on surfing prize money. The latest edition is the Corona Cero Open J-Bay, and the one before it the Corona Open J-Bay. What the men's and women's fields are paid is compared on men's vs women's surfing prize money.