Pauline Menczer is an Australian surfer. She won the 1988 women's amateur world title and the 1993 women's world championship and has been a long-standing competitor on the world championship tour.

In 1991 Menczer was narrowly beaten in the world championship by Wendy Botha

Wendy Botha

Wendy Botha is a four-time world surfing champion. She won her first title as a South African citizen in 1987, then she became an Australian citizen and won three more titles in 1989, 1991, and 1992). She also posed nude for Australian Playboy for the September issue of 1992...

, but blitzed the field in 1993 becoming the world champion. To date she has been competing for 20 years and won a total of 20 WCT events and 8 WQS events; only Layne Beachley

Layne Beachley

Layne Beachley is a former professional surfer from Manly, Australia. She won the World Championship seven times.-Surfing career:At the age of 16 Beachley became a professional surfer. By the age of 20 she was ranked sixth in the world. Beachley became the Women's ASP World Champion in 1998, and...

 has won more. She also was world Amateur in 1988 and world WQS champion in 2002

Menczer failed to requalify for the 2005 world championship tour. Her present sponsors are Stick Girl Surfboards (California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

) and Ocean Shores Surf Shop. She lives in Byron Bay when not on tour.

Videos

Menczer has appeared in a number of surf videos featuring female surfers, including

• Blue Crush (1998),

• Angel Eyes, The Surfing Adventure

• Peaches; the Core of Women's Surfing (2000)
• "surfabout; by Jenny Hedley California

External links

• Stick Man Surfboards (present sponsor), including Pauline Menczer page