Olympic champion surfer Caroline Marks joins forces with Sports Illustrated for its 2025 swimsuit issue

American surfer Caroline Marks is set to join the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit 2025 issue. This will be the second time in the 22-year-old's career that the surfer will grace the magazine.

Marks was last featured in the magazine in 2020 alongside fellow American surfers, Malia Manuel and Courtney Conlogoue. For the 2025 issue, she will join forces with stars such as Suni Lee, Jordan Chiles, and Gabby Thomas.

SI Swimsuit issue took to its Instagram handle to share the announcement of Marks' recruit for its 2025 edition:

"She’s baaaack! 🫶Caroline Marks is a pro surfer who made her brand debut back in 2020. Four years (and one Olympic gold medal) later, she’s making her return for the 2025 SI Swimsuit issue. "

Caroline Marks' SI announcement is coming just a few months after her impressive second Olympic Games. She secured a gold medal in the shortboard event with a tally of 10.50 points, just 0.17 points more than that of the second-placed Tatiana Weston-Webb.

This was an impressive jump-off in her performance compared to the delayed Tokyo Olympics where she finished fourth.

Caroline Marks comments on the feature that makes her profession distinguished

Marks with her shortboard Olympic gold medal on the ninth day of the 2024 Paris Games (Image via: Getty Images)

Caroline Marks recently opened up about the features of surfing that make it a very special event.

In a Florida Today interview, Marks stated that the weather delays in her sport are one of the toughest things to counter. She further added that this dependency of her sport on nature makes it 'unique.'

The recent quadrennial Games in Paris also faced such delays when Tahiti's small waves forced the organizers of the event to schedule another day for the final heats of the event.

Marks said:

"I think that's (delays due to weather) probably one of the hardest things, but also like the beauty of our sport at the same time. It's hard to wait and the anticipation builds up, you don't really know exactly when your heat’s going to go. That's what makes surfing so unique is we're relying on Mother Nature."

Surfing since ten years old, Caroline Marks has curated a decorated career in recent years. The Florida-born swimmer won the first position in the World Surf League last year and was also named the "Rookie of the Year" award in 2018.