AFP - Australia's four-time world surfing champion Stephanie Gilmore suffered a broken wrist and cuts to the head after being beaten with an iron bar during an attack overnight, reports said Tuesday.
Police did not name the 22-year-old woman they said was assaulted as she walked towards her apartment in the northern New South Wales town of Tweed Heads on Monday evening.
"The man struck the woman twice with the (metal) pole before fleeing the area on a pushbike," police said in a statement.
"The woman received a laceration to the back of the head, a fractured wrist and lacerations to her hand."
But local media including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said the woman was Gilmore, reporting that the reigning world surfing champion had been attacked as she walked into the stairwell of her apartment building.
Police said the alleged attacker was arrested when he returned to the apartment building and was recognised by friends and neighbours who held him until police arrived.
He has been charged him with several offences including wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm, police said. He was refused bail at a court appearance early Tuesday and will appear again next month.
Gilmore, the first male or female surfer to win the world title in their rookie year in 2007, won a historic third straight triple crown in Hawaii this year.
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