By age 17 she was entering world tour events as a wild card competitor, which paid off with a victory at the 2005 Roxy Pro Gold Coast.
[5] Also in 2010, she was inducted into the Surfers' Hall of Fame[6] and won the Laureus World Action Sportsperson of the year award.
Although the 2007 season was Gilmore's rookie year, she captured the Foster's ASP Women's World Title.
She won three events in 2007 to enter the final event of the season, the Billabong Pro Maui, ranked in first place; when the other contenders - former world champion Sofia Mulanovich and sophomore Silvana Lima - bowed out before her, she won the title.
[10] Source [11] In December 2010, she was attacked outside her home in New South Wales Australia, by a man with a metal bar.