Australia's first Olympics surfing quartet is named

The Australian Olympic Committee officially selected four surfers for their Tokyo 2020 team on Friday as the sport prepares to make it's Olympic debut.

Stephanie Gilmore, Sally Fitzgibbons, Julian Wilson and Owen Wright will make history as Australia's first Olympic surfers when they take to Tsurigasaki Beach in Chiba, east of Japan's capital city.

While the four surfers earned provisional quotas based on their 2019 World Surf League (WSL) tour rankings, their ticket to Tokyo was only confirmed after competing in the ISA World Surfing Games in El Salvador earlier this month

It is the first time surfing has been included as an Olympic sport.

The team has been named the "Irukandjis" after a dangerous species of jellyfish.