TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti — San Clemente resident Caroline Marks won the women’s surfing gold medal while French Polynesian Kauli Vaast won the gold medal in men’s surfing on Monday at the Paris Olympics in Tahiti.

Cheers and tears erupted from boats floating near the wave and crowds of spectators along the shore as the men’s final match ended in the afternoon as Vaast pumped his arms into the air in victory after beating Jack Robinson from Australia, who received the silver medal.

The women’s gold medal match ended about 30 minutes later, with Marks, a Florida surfer who has lived in San Clemente for the past decade, beating Tatiana Weston-Webb from Brazil, who was awarded the silver medal.