Gabriela Bryan wore the yellow jersey entering the three-event Australia swing of the World Surf League Championship Tour. On Tuesday, the Kauai native ensured that she’ll be leaving the country the same way.

World No. 1 Bryan repeated as champion of the Western Australia Margaret River Pro, defeating Caitlin Simmers 17.33 to 12.84 in a convincing performance in the final pairing.

The 23-year-old became the first WSL women’s competitor to win multiple events this season; she claimed the Surf City El Salvador Pro in mid-April. The last women’s surfer competing under a Hawaii flag to win multiple Championship Tour events in a season was Carissa Moore in 2023.

Bryan has made the Margaret River Pro her signature event as two of her three career CT wins have been south of Perth.

She needed the win over Simmers, of California, to retain her No 1 position heading to the next tour stop at the Lexus Trestles Pro. Bryan has 41,240 season points to Simmers’ 39,040.

“It’s incredible, I mean, I tried not to think about going back-to-back, but how cool it would have been to see my name twice on the stairs, one after the other,” Bryan said, per a WSL release. “So yeah, it’s a really cool accomplishment. I don’t feel like [the World No. 1]. I am, but yeah, yellow, wow. I try to just tell myself it’s red, but I’m getting used to it. Every heat I have with it, I get more comfortable. I thought I lost it over at Burleigh and then to come back with a win and now to wear it at Lowers. I can’t wait to compete there; I haven’t competed there since I was a junior.”

Bryan opened the final with a 9.50, the highest single-wave score of her career, with a series of four full-power gouges, according to the WSL.

She backed that up with a solid 7.83 to leave Simmers, 19, in scramble mode.

“I’m honestly speechless; I don’t even know what to think,” Bryan said. “That 9.50 was just the wave. I turned around and that thing just came right at me. I saw the wave and it had a perfect line. I just kind of went out there, like just got to surf my heart out, and that’s what I did on that wave. And then I was lucky enough to get a backup before it went flat. So yeah, I’m so stoked.”

Bryan defeated Sally Fitzgibbons of Australia and Sawyer Lindblad and Lakey Peterson of the U.S. to reach the final.

Hawaii’s Bettylou Sakura Johnson and Oahu resident Brisa Hennessy were knocked out in the round of 16.

South Africa’s Jordy Smith defeated Griffin Colapinto of the U.S., 12.00 to 4.83, in the men’s final. Colapinto beat Hawaii’s Barron Mamiya 12.17-7.44 in the semifinals.

Brian McInnis covers the state's sports scene for Spectrum News Hawaii. He can be reached at brian.mcinnis@charter.com.