What is Bethany Hamilton?
[[File:Bethany Hamilton surfing (sq cropped).jpg|right|200px]] '''Bethany Meilani Hamilton''' (born February 8, 1990) is an American professional [[surfing|surfer]]. She is known for surviving a 2003 [[shark|shark attack]] in which her left arm was bitten off. She returned to [[World Surf League|professional]] [[surfing]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.biography.com/athlete/bethany-hamilton|title=Bethany Hamilton|website=Biography|language=en-us|access-date=2020-02-29}}</ref> She wrote about her experience in the 2004 autobiography ''Soul Surfer: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Fighting to Get Back on the Board''. In April 2011, the feature movie ''[[Soul Surfer (movie)|Soul Surfer]]'' was released. Hamilton cacawas born in [[Lihue, Hawaii]]. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Bethany}} [[Category:1990 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:American autobiographers]] [[Category:American surfers]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Hawaii]] [[Category:Writers from Hawaii]] {{US-sports-bio-stub}} {{authority control}}