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Season 43 · 2022

Survivor 43

Won by the player nobody was watching, who then gave the money away.

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Mike Gabler is the Sole Survivor

Mike Gabler won on a 7–1–0 jury vote, beating Cassidy Clark and Owen Knight at the final tribal council.

  1. 1Mike Gablerwinner
  2. 2Cassidy Clark
  3. 3Owen Knight
Mamanuca Islands
Mamanuca Islands, Fiji
26 days
13 episodes
18
castaways
Final 3
faced the jury

What made it different

Won by Mike Gabler at 51, the second-oldest winner in the show's history, who pledged the prize to charity.

All 18 castaways, in boot order

  1. 1Mike GablerSole Survivor · 26 days
  2. 2Cassidy ClarkRunner-up · 26 days
  3. 3Owen Knight2nd runner-up · 26 days
  4. 4Jesse LopezEliminated · 25 days · jury
  5. 5Karla Cruz Godoy14th voted out · 24 days · jury
  6. 6Cody Assenmacher13th voted out · 23 days · jury
  7. 7Sami Layadi12th voted out · 21 days · jury
  8. 8Noelle Lambert11th voted out · 19 days · jury
  9. 9Ryan Medrano10th voted out · 17 days · jury
  10. 10James Jones9th voted out · 17 days · jury
  11. 11Jeanine Zheng8th voted out · 16 days · jury
  12. 12Dwight Moore7th voted out · 14 days
  13. 13Elisabeth "Elie" Scott6th voted out · 13 days
  14. 14Geo Bustamante5th voted out · 11 days
  15. 15Lindsay Carmine4th voted out · 9 days
  16. 16Nneka Ejere3rd voted out · 7 days
  17. 17Justine Brennan2nd voted out · 5 days
  18. 18Morriah Young1st voted out · 3 days

Photos: CBS

The winner, runners-up, jury vote, dates, day count, cast size and location on this page come from Wikipedia's Survivor 43 article, cross-checked against the series overview table before publication.

Sources (2)

  1. “Survivor 43,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_43.
  2. “List of Survivor (American TV series) episodes,” Wikipedia, accessed September 25, 2026, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Survivor_(American_TV_series)_episodes.

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