International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation

Live Stream video of the World Championships

15Dec21 The October 2021 Ranking List is now available at www.iwsftournament.com

As a special consideration for Covid, the October ranking is based on the single best performance rather than the average of the best two.

24Nov21 New World Record approved - Jacinta Carroll AUS first woman to jump over 200 ft

Skier: Jacinta Carroll
Round: 3
Score: 61.3m
Tournament: MasterCraft Pro
Date: 31 October 2021
Venue: Lake Grew, Polk City, FL, USA

23Nov21 Charlie Ross CAN has 3 U17 World Records approved

IWWF World Under-17 Slalom Record
Skier: Charlie Ross
Round: 1
Score: 1.25@58/10.25
Tournament: Holy Cow Cup
Date: 25 September 2021
Venue: Lake Grew, Polk City, FL, USA

IWWF World Under-17 Slalom Record
Skier: Charlie Ross
Round: 3
Score: 1.50@58/10.25
Tournament: Holy Cow Cup
Date: 26 September 2021
Venue: Lake Grew, Polk City, FL, USA

IWWF World Under-17 Slalom Record
Skier: Charlie Ross
Round: 2
Score: 2.00@58/10.25
Tournament: Swiss Fall Classic
Date: 10 October 2021
Venue: Swiss Waterski Resort, Clermont, FL, USA

21Nov21 Joel Poland GBR has a new World Overall Record approved by the IWWF Waterski Council

Tournament: 2021 IWWF World Championships
Venue: Sunset Lakes, Okahumpka, FL, USA
Round: 1
Score: 2660.12 - (2.00@58/10.25 - 69.00m - 11620p)
Date: 14 October, 2021

13Oct21 2021 Visit Lake County Florida IWWF World Waterski Championships are now under way

02Oct21 Waterski Council approves new Men's World Overall Record by Dorien Llewellyn CAN

Skier: Dorien Llewellyn
Round: 1
Score: 2590.41 - (2.50@58/10.75 - 70.00m - 11610p)
Tournament: Fluid Fall Record
Date: 4 September 2021
Venue: Lake Grew, Polk City, FL, USA

Read about it on iwwf.sport

29Sep21 IWWF Ranking List updated

The updated Open division May 2021 ranking will be used for seeding at the World Championships

May 2021 Ranking List

28Sep21 Minutes from the September 14 Waterski Council Meeting are now available

Waterski Council Minutes

03Sep21 2021 IWWF World Waterski Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

The IWWF is pleased to announce that Bulletin 2 for the 2021 IWWF World Waterski Championships, to be held in Lake County, Florida at the Jack Travers Water Ski School from October 12-17, 2021, has been released and is available for download here: https://iwwf.sport/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/2021-IWWF-World-Waterski-Championships-Bulletin-No-2-FINAL.pdf

28Aug21 World 2021 U21 Championships completed

Team Champions
1. USA
2. Canada
3. Italy

Click here for complete results

28Aug21 World 2020 U17 Championships completed

Team Champions
1. USA
2.Chile
3.Canada

Click here for complete results

28Aug21 Individul Qualifiers for the 2021 World Campionships based on the IWWF weekly ranking list is now available

Click here to see qualifier list

22Aug21 IWWF World Under 17 & 21 Waterski Championships Begins Today at the Pickos Waterski School in Florida

Here is the qualifiers list

12Jul21 60 day qualifiers for U17 and U21 announced

According to the rules, skiers can qualify for these championships based on their placement on the weekly ranking list 60 days before the tournament. The weekly list of June 22 was used.

01Jul21 Waterski Council Meeting Minutes of June 22 meeting are now available

Click here for the minutes

28Jun21 Waterski Council approves World Records

Joel Poland's performance of 2567.37 points has been approved as the new IWWF Open Overall World Record

Description of the performance:
Name: Joel Poland Division: OM - Event:Overall
Performance: (4.5@10.75 – 11350 - 68.2m) - 2567.37 points
Tournament Name: Ski Fluid Classic - Location: Lake Grew, Polk City, FL
Date of performance: 4/28-29/2021 Round: 1

Charlie Ross's performance of 1.00@58/10.25 has been approved as a tie of the existing IWWF Under-17 Boys World Record

Round 2 of the "Swiss Pro Slalom - Cash Prize" on May 3, 2021

Jaimee Bull's performance of 2.00@55/10.25 has been approved as the new IWWF Under-21 Women World Record

Round 2 of the "Lake 38 Pro Event" on June 5, 2021

10Jun21 IWWF Waterski Council releases list of individual qualifiers for the World Championships

Individual Qualifiers for the 2021 World Championships
An additional list of qualifiers will be taken from the weekly ranking list published 60 days before the Championships.

09Jun21 Updated IWWF Rulebook (V3) is now available

2021 Tournament Rulebook V3

09Jun21 Update list of individual qualifiers for the U17 and U21 Championships

U17
U21

06Jun21 2020 U17 World Championships Ranking List Qualifiers

The May 2021 Ranking List will not be used for the 2020 World U-17 selections of "Skiers eligible to ski as Individuals" because skiers from YOB 2003 are not included. For the list of "Skiers eligible to ski as Individuals" please refer to the list posted on IWSF.com below

04Jun21 2020 World Over-35 Championships cancelled

The IWWF and French Waterski & Wakeboard Federation have made the difficult decision to cancel the 2020 IWWF World Over-35 Waterski Championships.

The event was originally scheduled to be held at Baurech Lake in France in September 2020 and then rescheduled to September 2021.

This decision was made in consultation with the event organiser, IWWF President, IWWF European Confederation President, IWWF World Waterski Council and IWWF Medical Committee.

With the global pandemic still affecting international travel, current quarantine requirements in France for some countries which will impact participation significantly and the uncertainties of organising an event in 3-months time, it was decided that cancelling the event is the best course of action, following IWWF’s social responsibility philosophy and to ensure the well-being of organizers and athletes.

The next IWWF World Over-35 Waterski Championships are scheduled to be held in 2022 and the host and venue will be announced in due course.

31May21 Final lists of individual qualifiers for the World U17 and U21 are now available

IWWF 2020 U-17 World - List of Individual Qualifiers
IWWF 2021 U-21 World - List of Individual Qualifiers

Any issue should be adressed to Candido Moz - mozc@live.com

30May21 The May 2021 Ranking list is now available at www.iwsftournament.com

25May21 World U17 and U21 Intent to Enter deadline moved to June 5

The delay is due to the hybrid ranking list used for individual selection not being available yet.

22May21 Provisional lists of individual qualifiers for the World U17 and U21 are now available

U21 Individual Qualifiers (provisional)
U17 Individual Qualifiers (provisional)

21May21 Waterski Council meeting minutes now available

The Waterski Council minutes from its recent meeting are now available
Part 1
Part 2
An important change that is effective immediately was made regarding the rope release as follows:

Recent competitions have shown the release person deliberately using the rope release (1m rope) to help the skier. This was never the intention of the rule change in 2019. It was decided unanimously to reinstate in rule 15.12 the wording “The release person may not adjust or move the rope in any way to take up slack or allow extra length. He must hold it in one position or release it. Using the rope to intentionally aid the skier will subject the skier to disqualification”. This unanimous decision will be posted on May 21st and come into immediate effect.

07May21 Waterski Council replaces Elite Rankings with Pro Tour

The Elite Rankings were established in 2003 and continued through 2020. Now the Waterski Council has set the rules for a Pro Tour that replaces the Elite Rankings. There is a Pro Tour Leaderboard that will show the accumulated Pro points as the season progresses until a final Champion is crowned.

Here are the 2021 Pro Tour Rules

02May21 Swiss Pro Tour completed

Pro Tour Leaderboard

28Apr21 IWWF Announces Skiers of the Decade and Skiers of the last Quarter Century

	REGINA JAQUESS – USA Female Waterskier of the Quarter Century 1995 – 2019
	JARET LLEWELLYN – Canada Male Waterskier of the Quarter Century 1995 – 2019
	JACINTA CARROLL – Australia Female Waterskier of the Decade 2010 – 2019
	FREDDY KRUEGER – USA Male Waterskier of the Decade 2010 – 2019

28Apr21 IWWF launches 75th Anniversary logo

The IWWF is pleased to launch its 75th Anniversary logo and announce a year-long celebration from July 2021 till July 2022 through National, Confederation and IWWF World titled events.

In July 1946, the World Water Ski Union (WWSU) was formed. In 1989 the WWSU changed its name to the International Water Ski Federation (IWSF) and in 2009 the IWSF changed its name to the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF).

28Apr21 Version V2 of the 2021 Rules released by the IWWF Waterski Council

2021 Tournament Rulebook V2

25Apr21 In Memoriam

Kuno Ritschard – 1936 to 2021

In Memory of Kuno Ritschard – 1936 to 2021

25Apr21 Waterski Council approves Pro Tour

Read the details here

14Apr21 Waterski Council releases meeting minutes

Waterski Council Meeting Minutes from April 9, 2021

05Apr21 Eligibility Rules for 2020/2021 IWWF Waterski Championships are now available

Eligibility Rules

02Apr21 Environmental Handbook Updated

Here is the update information

01Apr21 Bulletin 1 for the IWWF World Under 17 & Under 21 Waterski Championships is now available

Bulletin 1 for the IWWF World Under 17 & Under 21 Waterski Championships has been released and is available for download here:

https://iwwf.sport/u17u21worlds/

29Mar21 Information on the IWWF License

Please CLICK HERE to see a short video highlighting the concept of the IWWF License and why it has been created.

23Mar21 Waterski Council releases latest rulebook for 2021

2021 Tournament Rulebook

23Mar21 New trick approved by Waterski Council

The Waterski Council approved a new trick, the BFLSL5F (Back Flip Ski Line 540 B-F) for 950 points

BFLSL5F video

23Feb21 2021 Ranking List to be used for World Qualifications

Read the qualification details here

17Feb21 Waterski Council Releases meeting minutes

The minutes are for a Zoom meeting held over multiple sessions.
Read the minutes here

31Jan21 The October 2020 Ranking list is now available

The Waterski Council decided that because of the effects of the global pandemic which meant that many skiers did not have the opportunity to record scores in 2020 and that the total number of scores was greatly reduced, that the 2020 Rankings would be a combination of the 2019 rankings and the 2020 rankings. One important decision is that skiers would at least retain their 2019 ranking position in the 2020 rankings. The effect of this is that the actual ranking number assigned may not be in sequential order but nevertheless that is the official ranking.

click here for Ranking Lists

28Dec20 Waterski Council approves new U21 Trick Record of 12220 by Patricio Font

The record was achieved at the Holy Cow Cup at Lake Grew, Polk City, FL on October 18 in round 2.

Click here to see the video

10Dec20 2021 U21 World Championships to be held at Pickos Waterski School

The 2021 IWWF World Under-21 Waterski Championships will be held at Pickos Waterski School, Santa Rosa Beach Florida, immediately after the IWWF World Under-17 Waterski Championships, making it an 8-day event from 22nd to 29th August 2021.

Please click on link below to learn more:

https://iwwf.sport/2021-iwwf-world-under-21-waterski-championships-to-be-held-at-pickos-waterski-school/

02Dec20 Waterski Council approves new U21 Slalom Record by Jaime Bull CAN

Skier: Jaimee Bull
Hilltop ProAm (21W069R)
16/08/2020 Round 1
score 1.00@55/10.25

18Nov20 Lake County Selected To Host 2021 IWWF World Waterski Championships

Read the full story here

16Nov20 2022 IWWF World Under-17 Waterski Championships To Be Held in Chile

The IWWF Executive Board has approved a bid from the Chilean Waterski & Wakeboard Federation, to host the 2022 IWWF World Under-17 Waterski Championships at Miranda's Water Ski School, Lago los Morros, in Santiago, Chile in January 2023 (actual date TBC).

Previous IWWF World titled events organised at Miranda's Water Ski School include the 2003 & 2007 IWWF World Under-21 Waterski Championships, 2012 FISU World University Waterski Championships , 2013 IWWF World Open Waterski Championships, 2016 IWWF World Under-17 Waterski Championships, 2018 IWWF World Over-35 Waterski Championships and 2019 IWWF Pan American Waterski Championships.

The 2020 IWWF World Under-17 Waterski Championships, that was to be held earlier this year, has been rescheduled due to the current global pandemic to 22nd to 29th August 2021 at the Pickos Water Ski School, Santa Rosa Beach, Florida.

21Sep20 Waterski Council announces Rule Changes and Decisions

Rule Changes

IWWF Tournament Council Decisions

18Sep20 IWWF Waterski Council approves a new jump measurement program

Video Tape Measure by Chip Shand USA has been approved. It is available on the AWSA Technical Controller Resources webpage. Here is the link: https://www.teamusa.org/USA-Water-Ski/Three-Event-Water-Skiing/Technical-Controllers
More...

30Aug20 Federico Jaramillo COL sets new U17 slalom record

The IWWF Waterski Council approved his performance of 1 buoy on a 10.25m line at 58 kmph done on July 12, 2020 at the Cedar Creek July Record tournament held at Cedar Creek Ski Park, Elkins, AR, USA

30Jul20 Federico Jaramillo Sets World Under-17 Boys Slalom Record

Federico Jaramillo (Columbia)<br><small>Photographer: David Crowder</smLL>

Federico Jaramillo (Columbia)
Photographer: David Crowder

Federico Jaramillo’s World Under-17 Boys Slalom Record, 5 buoys on the 10.75 metre line, has been approved by the IWWF World Waterski Council. Federico, the current IWWF Junior Boys Slalom Champion from Colombia, set the record at Shortline Lakes, Santa Rosa Beach in Florida on 21st June 2020 while competing in the Nautique Record. He ran 4 buoys on the 10.75 line the day before.

21Jul20 Minutes of the Water Ski Council July Meeting are now available

Minutes of the July meeting

30Jun20 Waterski Council allows exemption of 30 day notification

The Cedar Creek July record being held July 10-12 has been granted an exemption to upgrade their tournament to R status.

29Jun20 European Elite Tournaments Cancelled

The following Elite tournaments have been cancelled:

Start	End	Tournament
2020-06-21	2020-06-23	MALIBU OPEN LACANAU
2020-07-03	2020-07-05	VII San Gervasio Pro Am
2020-07-03	2020-07-07	SAN GERVASIO JUMP JAM
2020-07-17	2020-07-19	Andy Mapple Pro-Am
2020-07-25	2020-07-26	FUNGLISS PRO AM

29Jun20 New buoy count rule for 45+ Women Slalom now in dynamic rankings

The rule allows 45+ women to select either 52 or 55 as their max speed and scoring is based on buoy count from 49/18.25
Dynamic Rankings

23Jun20 US Masters has been cancelled

The tournament cannot be held because of the current COVID-19 travel restrictions preventing invited athletes from attending.

22Jun20 Waterski Council allows exemption of 30 day notification

30 day waiver request for 20S123R Isles of Lake Hancock July 3-5 has been granted.

22Jun20 The California Pro Am Elite Tournament has been cancelled

The tournament was scheduled for August 28-30

13Jun20 Waterski Council allows exemption of 30 day notification

The council will allow an R tournament to be held on June 20/21 at Cory Pickos Ski School due to the cancellation of the Lymanland June Jam on the same date at the request of the Pickos site.

06Jun20 The Kaiafas Battle ProAm 2020 elite tournament has been cancelled

The tournament was scheduled for July 10-12

30May20 Waterski Council releases Rulebook Update

2020 Tournament Rulebook V4

28May20 Waterski Council initiates skier surveys

The Waterski Council has two surveys to gather skier opinion on some current rule issues.

The first survey is for skiers planning to compete in the 35+ World Championships: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/H3239LY

The second survey is for 45+ women division slalom speed: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5DQWY9H

20May20 2020 IWWF World Over-35 Waterski Championships have been rescheduled

We are pleased to inform you that the 2020 IWWF World Over-35 Waterski Championships have been rescheduled to take place from September 13 - 19, 2021.

Please refer to the link below for more information:

https://iwwf.sport/2020-iwwf-over-35-worlds-rescheduled-to-13th-19th-september-2021/

19May20 Weekly rankings now include U14

Since it has been 1 year since the introduction of U14 rankings, they can now be on the weekly list.

12May20 IWWF May Ranking list is now available

This begins the 30 day correction period.
See the list here

12May20 Pan Am Waterski Council downgrades tournament performances after endcourse video review

Read the detailed report here

24Apr20 2020 IWWF World Over-35 Waterski Championships Postponed

The IWWF and French Waterski & Wakeboard Federation have agreed to reschedule the 2020 World Over-35 Waterski Championships. This is in light of the world-wide coronavirus situation, to ensure the safety of organizers and athletes and to show social responsibility.

The event, originally scheduled for September 2020, will now be held on a date to be determined in 2021 at the same event venue, Baurech Lake in France. Information on the event rules and updates will be announced by the IWWF in due course.

The IWWF will continue to monitor the world-wide coronavirus situation while the French Waterski & Wakeboard Federation advises on any travel restrictions leading up to the event. Federations will be informed ahead of time if there are any further changes.

14Apr20 2020 World Junior Championships Postponed

In light of current events affecting most countries, to ensure the safety of organizers and athletes and to show social responsibility, the IWWF and USA Water Ski & Wake Sports have agreed to reschedule the 2020 IWWF World Junior Waterski Championships to a date to be determined in 2021.

This will remain as the 2020 I WWF World Junior Waterski Championships, so skiers born in the year 2003 or after will be eligible to compete and the IWWF will provide Federations with updates as soon as available.

The event, originally planned for August 2020, will be held at Pickos Ski School, located in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, minutes from the top beaches in the United States.

The IWWF will continue to monitor the world-wide coronavirus situation while the organizer advises on any travel restrictions leading up to the event. Federations will be informed ahead of time if there are any further changes.

17Mar20 IWWF Rulebook updated to Version 3

2020 Tournament Rulebook V3

08Mar20 Date Change for the Malibu Open at Charleston S.C.from June 12-13, 2020 to Sept.11-12, 2020

08Mar20 Moomba Finals Today

Follow the live action at:

http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/competition.php?cc=T-20AUS316&page=live

29Feb20 Waterski Council releases 2020 Rulebook

The rulebook has been revised and re-organized.

2020 Tournament Rulebook

26Feb20 Elite schedule for 2020

2020-03-06	2019-03-09	moomba masters international invitational championships	MS	WS	MT	WT	MJ	WJ	Yarra River Melbourne Australia
2020-04-11	2020-04-12	Chile Night Jump 2020 (Suspended)					MJ		Lago Los Morros- Santiago,Chile
2020-05-22	2020-05-24	2020 Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament(date to change TBD)	MS	WS	MT	WT	MJ	WJ	Callaway Gardens, Georgia
2020-05-30	2020-05-31	Lake 38 Pro-Am Record Slalom	MS	WS					5049 Point Milligan Rd Quincy Fl
2020-06-05	2020-06-07	MasterCraft	MS	WS			MJ	WJ	Bennnetts Water Ski School, Zachary, LA
2020-06-21	2020-06-23	MALIBU OPEN LACANAU	MS						Lacanau - Pitrot
2020-06-26	2020-06-28	2020 BOTASKI PROAM	MS						BOTASKI - Sesena WaterSki Complex
2020-07-03	2020-07-05	VII San Gervasio Pro Am	MS	WS					San Gervasio Bresciano (BS), Italy
2020-07-03	2020-07-07	SAN GERVASIO JUMP JAM					MJ		SAN GERVASIO BRESCIANO - ITALY
2020-07-10	2020-07-12	KAIAFAS BATTLE PROAM	MS						KAIAFAS LAKE - GREECE
2020-07-17	2020-07-19	Andy Mapple Pro-Am	MS						Arena Club, Thorpe lakes
2020-07-25	2020-07-26	FUNGLISS PRO AM	MS						DOMMARTIN
2020-08-06	2020-08-07	Americas Cup 2020 NOT ELITE - US Skiers only	MS	WS	MT	WT	MJ	WJ	West Palm Beach , FL
2020-08-15	2020-08-16	Hilltop Lake ProAm by Syndicate Waterskis	MS						Hilltop Lake, Arlington Wa
2020-08-28	2020-08-30	California Pro Am	MS	WS					Diablo Shores Vineyards Estates
2020-09-11	2020-09-12	Malibu Open	MS	WS			MJ	WJ	Trophy Lakes, Charleston S.C.

for full details click here

04Feb20 2020 World Juniors Bulletin #1 is now available.

Click here for Bulletin #1

20Dec19 45+ Women Rankings with Max Speed of 52k added to dynamic rankings

The new rule specified a maximum speed of 52k for the Women 45+ division. Since the last year the max speed was 55k and performances are good for one year the current 55k list will continue for 1 year. The 52k list will use 55k performances and list them as having been at 52k while adding true 52k results at the stated line length.

04Dec19 IWWF Waterski Council approves Patricio Font's performance as a new U17 World Record

Patricio Font Nelson McCormicks Fall Classic McCormick Ski Lakes, Seffner (FL) 27/10/2019 Round 2 - 12050 points

28Nov19 European Waterski Council downgrades tournament performances after endcourse video review

Read the detailed report here

13Nov19 Patricio Font (MEX) is in top 5 of Pan Am Games sport athletes

The Pan Am Confederation has been notified that Patricio Font has made the top Five in Pan Am Sports inaugural Awards event in the Next Gen male U20 category . NOW, we have to let our friends of Waterski and Wakeboard know about this great honor. The Presidents of Pan Am Waterski and Wakeboard selected our athletes last month and we are so very honored and pleased that one of our athletes was chosen by Pan Am Sports to move forward to the final stages of election through out all of the Sports in Pan Am.

It is now up to the members of Pan Am to give Patricio the votes he deserves to put him over the top for his excellence in the sport that we all love so dearly.

Please do your part in letting all of your friends, associates and relatives know about this great honor. You must vote at: panamsports.org. You must be from the Pan Am region to vote.

13Nov19 The preliminary October 2019 Ranking List is now available

See the list at www.iwsftournament.com

01Nov19 IWWF Waterski Council approves Erika Lang's 11260 as the new World Record

Erika Lang
Sunsett Fall Classic 2019
Sunset Lakes, Groveland (FL), 05 October 2019
Second round - 11260 points

23Oct19 Patricio Font sets new U17 World Record of 11740 points

Patricio Font Nelson
IWWF World Waterski Championships 2019
Putrajaya, Malaysia, 17 August 2019
Final round - 11740 points
Approved by IWWF Water Ski Council

23Oct19 Patricio Font's performance of 11510 is approved as new U17 World Record

Patricio Font Nelson
2019 IWWF U21 World Championships
Shalom Park, Alberta (CAN), 04 July 2019
1st round - 11510 points
Approved by IWWF Water Ski Council

14Oct19 The results of all open world championships are now on-line

See them here

07Oct19 Erika Lang USA tricks 11260 for a pending World Record

Her performance was on Saturday at the Sunset Fall Classic at Sunset Lakes and Jack Travers International Tournament Skiing in Groveland, Fla.

08Sep19 World Waterski Council Meeting Minutes are now available

The meeting minutes from the Malaysia meeting detailing rule changes are now available

Click here for the minutes

04Sep19 Ranking List Certificates are now available

A new function has been added to the weekly ranking list. You can select your name and print a certificate that certifies your ranking for the indicated week. You can print from the screen display or use your browser to save the display as a pdf file.

Weekly rankings here

28Aug19 IWWF Waterski Council Chairman authorizes use of different ropes

Under rule 1.05, I am allowing the following rule exception up to the end of the 2019 skiing season.
This rule can be applied in all tournaments and for each of them a report must be submitted to the Waterski Council

10.04 - h) Differing rope specifications
Organizers will supply ropes that meet the above specifications.

Ropes may be:

1: the same brand with the same specifications;

2: the same brand with differing specifications;

3: different brands altogether.

A minimum of 2 ropes of each type must be supplied and there will be no more than 2 types of rope supplied.
If different ropes specifications are used, skiers will be permitted to choose which rope to use. No reride will be granted if a skier receives the wrong rope.
A skier cannot provide his/her own slalom rope.

Candido Moz
Chairman
IWWF Waterski Council

18Aug19 Final World Championships Medals presented at the banquet

Women Overall

Gold - Whitney McClintock - CAN
Silver - Hanna Straltsova - BLR
Bronze - Brooke Baldwin - USA

Men Overall

Gold - Martin Kolman - CZE
Silver - Adam Sedlmajer - CZE
Bronze - Joe Poland - GBR

Team Overall

Gold - Canada
Silver - United States of America
Bronze - France

18Aug19 Final Event Medals awarded at World Championships

Men Slalom

Gold - Joel Howley - AUS
Silver - Frederick Winter - GBR
Bronze - William Asher - GBR

Women Tricks

Gold - Anna Gay - USA
Silver - Natalia Cuglievan - PER
Bronze - Giannina Bonnemann - GER

Women Jump

Gold - Jacinta Carroll - AUS
Silver - Hanna Straltsova - BLR
Bronze - Regina Jaquess - USA

Men Jump

Gold - Ryan Dodd - CAN
Silver - Felipe Miranda - CHI
Bronze - Joe Poland - GBR

17Aug19 First Medals awarded at the 2019 World Championships

Men Tricks

Gold - Pato Font - MEX
Silver - Pierre Ballon - FRA
Bronze - Martin Kolman - CZE

Women Slalom

Gold - Manon Costard - FRA
Silver - Regina Jaquess - USA
Bronze - Jaime Metcalfe - NZL

Currently the USA leads the team competition followed by Canada and France

14Aug19 Aliaksei ZHARNASEK takes over as #1 in Men Tricks in the weekly rankings

13Aug19 World Championships start in Putrajaya, Malaysia

President Jose Antonio Perez Priego addresses the crowd at the opening ceremony

The World Championships have begun in Putrajaya. You can follow the live results here. There is also a live webcast on this link

28Jul19 Joel Poland GBR takes over the #1 ranking in overall in the weekly rankings

28Jul19 Pan Am Games in progress in Lima, Peru

Two days of preliminary competition will be followed by the finals. See the results and live results here

21Jul19 Pato Font does it again

Video - 4.5 @ 10.25 meters

21Jul19 Regina Jaquess USA Slalom record approved

The IWWF World Waterski Council has approved Regina Jaquess New Women's Slalom Record 4.5 buoys @ 10.25 metres set on 6th July 2019 at Lymand Land USA Duncanville, Alabama.

09Jul19 Great Britain wins Team Overall at World U21 followed by Canada and Ukraine

The top 4 teams were separated by less than 90 points for a very close finish
More...

07Jul19 Regina Jaquess runs 4 1/2 at 10.25 for a new pending World Slalom Record

The performance was at Lyman Land, Al USA

29Jun19 Fred Winter goes to #1 in the weekly slalom rankings

14Jun19 Qatar to replace San Diego as hosts of 2019 ANOC World Beach Games

It was reported by Inside the Games - read the article here

09Jun19 World U21 Championships Bulletin 3 is now available

Click here for Bulletin #2

31May19 ANOC World Beach Games are pulled from San Diego

The Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) announced that it was pulling the Beach Games event from San Diego because the organizers could not meet the financial requirements. Waterski jumping and Wakeboard were scheduled events at San Diego. ANOC is negotiating with new cities to replace San Diego.

24May19 Elite tournaments added to the schedule

Several elite tournaments have recently been approved:
2019-06-14 2019-06-16 BORDEAUX SLALOM CUP
2019-06-22 2019-06-23 FUNGLISS PRO AM
2019-07-12 2019-07-14 Andy Mapple Pro-am

The full Elite schedule is at:
http://www.iwsfranking.com/2018/showelitetournaments.php

19May19 2019 May Ranking List is now available

See the list at www.iwsftournament.com

This is the list used for individual qualification at the U21 World Championships and Open World Championships

15May19 U21 World Championshps Bulletin #2 is now available

10May19 2019 IWWF Rulebook updated

Updated Rulebook 2019

30Apr19 Another IWWF World Junior Boys Trick Record For Pato Font

Read the Article here

25Apr19 2019 World Championships Bulletin #2 is now available

25Apr19 Felipe Franco Belmont IWWF World Junior Boys Trick Record 11260 Points Approved

Read the article here

10Apr19 IWWF Approves Patricio Font’s World Junior Boys Trick Record 11,090

Click here for more information

05Apr19 Chile Night Jump is an Elite Tournament held April 19-20 in Santiago, Chile

20Mar19 The 2019 IWWF Water Ski Rulebook is now available

2019 Rulebook

17Mar19 Officials appointed for the World Championships in Malaysia

Chief Judge	Candido Moz	ITA
Ass. Chief Judge	Larry Gisler	PER
Homologator	Zdeneck Kolman	CZE
Scorer	Larry Downes	USA
Ass. Scorer	SOURTY Virginie	FRA
Ass. Scorer	Hannu Rinanen	FIN
Judge	PERSOONS Marie Anne	BEL
Judge	Febrianto Kadir	INA
Judge	Nikki Lee	USA
Judge	BERAZOUSKAYA Aliaksandra	BLR
Judge	Bruce Cockburn	AUS
Judge	Nathalie Perez	COL
Judge	BALAIS Aristotelis	GRE
Judge	Chas Hewson	AUS
Judge	Robert Ritter	CHI
Judge	Keith Lindermuller	USA
Driver	Less Todd	USA
Driver	Glen Martin	AUS
Driver	Mario Pigozzi	DOM
Driver	GANDOLA Davide	ITA

17Mar19 Officials appointed for the U21 World Championships in Canada

Chief Judge	KUNERT Elena	SVK
Ass. Chief Judge	Felipe Leal	COL
Homologator	Zachary Moore	CAN
Scorer	Martiza Concha	CHI
Ass. Scorer	COITOU Annie	FRA
Judge	Febrianto Kadir	INA
Judge	Jerrson Delgado	COL
Judge	ADRIANSEN Kate	BEL
Judge	Jo Ann-Moore	CAN
Judge	GATTONE Barbara	ITA
Judge	Bob Harris	USA
Judge	KELLY Gavin	GBR
Judge	Waldo Miranda	CHI
Judge	Jorge Renosto	ARG
Driver	CAMPBELL Ian	GBR
Driver	Nigel Sparrow	AUS
Driver	Ron Moore	CAN

10Mar19 Pan Am to hold officials clinic

02Mar19 Bulletin 1 for the 2019 IWWF World Under 21 Waterski Championships

here is the link to download Bulletin 1 for the 2019 IWWF World Under 21 Waterski Championships, which will take place in Edmonton, Canada from July 4 - 7, 2019:

Read the article and see the links to the nomination forms

17Feb19 Minutes of the IWWF Waterski Council are now available

With this 3rd video conference, the Council has addressed all items on the 2018/19 agenda. Federations will be notified by direct mail.

The ramp changes voted on by the committee were approved with a unanimous vote making the new ramp rule effective immediately.

February Minutes

12Feb19 Minutes of the January Water Ski Council meeting are now available

January Meeting Minutes

02Feb19 2019 IWWF World Under 21 Waterski Championships To Be Held at Shalom Park

22Jan19 IWWF International Hall OF Fame Releases 2019 Nomination Forms & Details Of Selectors

21Jan19 Regina Jaquess USA named Female IWWF Athlete of the Year

Regina was named Waterskier of the year by the Waterski Council and then named IWWF Athlete of the year by the IWWF Executive Board who select from all of the nominations of the IWWF Councils.

Read the announcement on the iwwf website

21Dec18 IWWF Waterski Council Meeting Minutes are now available

The IWWF Waterski Council held its annual meeting via video conference on December 13 and the minutes are now available.

Meeting Minutes

19Dec18 Ryan Dodd CAN and Regina Jaquess USA named Male and Female Water Skiers of the Year by the IWWF Waterski Council

Regina Jaquess USA Ryan Dodd CAN

Read about Regina's accomplishments in 2018

Read about Ryan's accomplishments in 2018

05Dec18 October World Ranking List is now available

Main Ranking index page

29Nov18 World 35+ Championships in progress in Chile

Click here to see live results

26Nov18 2019 World Championships Bulletin 1 is now available

Click here for Bulletin 3

23Nov18 World 35+ Championships Bulletin 3 is now available

19Oct18 IWWF’s World Waterski Council has approved Erika Lang’s (USA) new World Women’s Trick Record.

Erika skied 10,850 points at the Sunset Fall Classic in Groveland, Florida USA on 6th October 2018 to break the previous world record of 10,700 points held by Anna Gay (USA).

17Oct18 Erika Lang is the new #1 skier in tricks in the weekly list.

For the weekly lists, the submitted scorebooks are used. If a record fails to be approved, the scorebook will be updated at that time.

12Oct18 Erika Lang USA sets a pending World Trick record of 10850

The record was at the Sunset Fall Classic in Groveland, FL

02Oct18 World 35+ Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

Click here for Bulletin 2

27Sep18 IWWF Ranking list upgraded to show skier pictures.

The top 30 skiers in the dynamic ranking list for the Open division will now have their pictures included in the ranking listing.
If your picture is not there or you want to change the picture that is there, you can upload it.
Click here for Picture Upload form

17Sep18 Tournament Council modifies overall calculation for 35+ divisions in jumping

The tournament council modified the current jump formulas.
The formula used a 10m offset for all men's divisions and a 7m offset for all women's divisions. Since the distances get less in the older divisions, this gave a disproportionate number of points per meter to the older divisions.
Now each division will have its own offsets as follows:

Division	Offset
Men 35+	subtract 20
Men 45+	subtract 15
Men 55+	subtract 10
Men 65+	subtract 0
Women 35+	subtract 7
Women 45+	subtract 0
Women 55+	add 5
Women 65+	add 10

These formulas will be in effect for the World 35+ Championships in November.

28Aug18 Weekly ranking list for August 28 is published and will act as the final qualification for the World 35+ Championships

26Aug18 The IWWF Tournament Council votes to allow Action Pro Night Jump to upgrade from L to R with an exception to the 30 day notice requirement

20Aug18 Elite tournament for men and women tricks registered for Reuinion Island for October 27-28

Click here for details

14Aug18 The 2019 ANOC World Beach Games will include ski jumping

The 2019 ANOC World Beach Games, this being the inaugural edition of the World Beach Games, is a multi-sport event which will be organized by the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) and hosted by San Diego, California, United States.
Please refer to the following link for the 2019 ANOC World Beach Games' selection criteria:
Click here

12Aug18 Boating Industry Legend, Ralph C. Meloon, Passes Away At Age 100

Click here to see live results

10Aug18 Women Slalom event added to California Pro Am - total purse $10,000

07Aug18 IWWF Tournament Council approves Adam Sedlmajer overall record of 2819.76 as the new men's overall record

Adam slalomed 3@10.25, tricked 10750 and jumped 66.3m in the 2nd round of the July Heat tournament at Isles of Lake Hancock, Winter Garden, Florida

07Aug18 IWWF Tournament Council approves Regina Jaquess record of 4@10.25 as the new women's world slalom record

05Aug18 King of Darkness tournament on November 2 has been withdrawn from Elite status at the request of the organizer

05Aug18 Patricio Font MEX tricks 10790 for a new Junior World Trick record at the World Junior Championships in Spain

03Aug18 World Junior Championships now in progress in Sesena Spain

31Jul18 Magic Pro Am in Nemours France on August 29-30 registers as an Introductory Elite Tournament

25Jul18 The MALIBU OPEN - Pro Am in Lacanau France starting August 31 has been registered as an Elite tournament

25Jul18 Adam Sedlmajer sets a pending World Overall record and goes to #1 on the overall rankings

The new pending record was set at the July Heat tournament at the Isles of Lake Hancock in Winter Garden, Florida

17Jul18 Regina Jaquess becomes #1 ranked in Overall in the weekly rankings

16Jul18 Regina Jaquess reportedly skis 4@10.25 for a new pending record at Lake Hancock.

28Jun18 IWWF Tournament Rulebook update is now available

2018 Tournament Rulebook

10Jun18 Officials named for the World 35+ Championships

Chief Judge Jeff Smith USA
Ast. Chief Judge Kelly Gavin GBR
Homologator Kolman Zdenek CZE

Scorer Langrock Ulf GER
Scorer Maritza Concha 1 COL
Scorer Cynthia Logan USA

Judge Nikki Lee USA
Judge Masako Yamaguchi JPN
Judge Gattone Barbara ITA
Judge Robert Ritter CHI
Judge John Connell NZE
Judge Berazouskaya Aliaksandra BLR
Judge Keith Lindemulder USA
Judge Lagae Pieter-Jan BEL

Driver Mario Pigozzi DOM
Driver Gary Weidman AUS
Driver Asher Adrian GBR

25May18 World Junior Championships Bulletin is now available

2018 Tournament Rulebook update

25May18 The May 2018 Ranking list is now available

See the list at http://www.iwsftournament.com/

A new overall calculation method as detailed in the rulebook takes effect for this list. This new method will also be used in the daily and weekly lists.

22May18 Martin KOLMAN CZE becomes the new #1 in Men Overall in this weeks rankings.

20May18 The Urban Wake Pro Am Elite Tournament has been cancelled

The organizers of the Urban Wake Pro Am in Queretaro Mexico have informed the IWWF TC that the tournament has to be cancelled due to lack of sponsorship

19May18 IWWF TC approves Anna Gay's 10700 as a new World Record

Anna skied 10700 at the 2018 Ski Fluid Classic at Lake Grew in Polk City, Florida on April 25.

26Apr18 Natallia BERDNIKAVA BLR becomes the new #1 in Women Overall in this weeks rankings.

26Apr18 Anna Gay sets pending World Trick Record of 10700

Anna skied 10700 at the 2018 Ski Fluid Classic at Lake Grew in Polk City, Florida on April 25. The pending record will be reviewed by the IWWF Tournament Council

23Apr18 IWWF Tournament Council appproves additional qualification method for the 2018 World 35+ Championships

The weekly list published August 28 will be used for qualification to the 2018 World 35+ Championships in addition to all other methods currently in place according to Diagram 10 for the current year only.

20Apr18 Panel appointed for World Junior Championships

Chief Judge	Felipe Leal	COL
Ass. Chief Judge	Persoons Marie Anne	BEL
Homologator	Moz Candido	ITA
Scorer	Fromiau Muriel	FRA
Ass. Scorer	Michele Grant	CAN
Ass. Scorer	Nikki Lee	USA
Alternate scorer	Simonov Sergey	RUS
Judge	Adriaensen Kate	BEL
Judge	Masako Yamaguchi	JPN
Judge	Angelica Cifuentes	COL
Judge	Mikanovich Liudmila	BLR
Judge	Kerry Lee	USA
Judge	Rintanen Hannu	FIN
Judge	Jersson Delgado	COL
Alternate Judge	Johansson Anders	SWE
Alternate Judge	Keith Lindermulder	USA
Driver	Sonzogni Fabrizio	ITA
Driver	Les Todd	USA
Driver	Nigel Sparrow	AUS
Alternate Driver	Stadlbauer Vincent	SUI
Alternate Driver	Greg Chapman	USA

28Mar18 The IWWF Tournament Rulebook update has been published

06Mar18 2108 World 35+ Championships Bulletin #1 is now available

Bulletin 1 World 35+

20Feb18 Tournament Council introduces weekly rankings

The IWWF Tournament Council has introduced a new weekly ranking. The rankings will be published weekly, each Tuesday including all tournaments submitted by the previous Monday. The list will be retained for reference and historical purposes.
The list is available here:
New Weekly Water Ski Rankings
There is also a separate link in the Water Ski Ranking section in the left column of this page.
The list can be presented by country or region as well as individual.

01Feb18 Bulletin 1 for the U17 World Championships is now available

World U17 Championships Bulletin 1

30Jan18 2018 IWWF Tournament Rulebook is now available

2018 Tournament Rulebook

23Jan18 2020 World Junior Championships has been awarded to the Pickos Ski School in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida

Read the IWWF article here

04Jan18 The World Games Athlete Of The Year 2017 - Please Vote For Natallia Berdnikava

Calling All Riders, Racers, Footers And Skiers - IWGA Poll - Nati Already In Third Place!

International recognition of the outstanding talent in our Disciplines helps us all. At last count, with 21 athletes from 21 Sports chasing that coveted WORLD GAMES ATHLETE OF THE YEAR title, the first day of Polling put our own Natallia Berdnikava into third place. What a great start!

Natallia is a Tournament Waterskier but is carrying the flag for us all. Lets really get behind this one whether we are Riders, Racers, Footers or Skiers. To win will take a huge effort but nothing worthwhile is ever achieved without effort, as we all know. Here is what we need to do EVERY DAY of January :

Click this Link: https://www.theworldgames.org/awards/Athlete-of-the-Year-2017-46
Register when requested to get TWO votes each time
Bookmark the Voting Page and scroll down to WATERSKI and Vote for Natalie
We must vote EVERY day for the month of January only.
Of the 21 Athletes in contention, only the Top Nine will move beyond January 15th.

Good luck to our Sport - and thank you to our Riders, Racers, Footers, Skiers and Fans.

Can our World Games double Gold Medalist Natallia Berdnikava become The World Games Athlete of the Year 2017?

That is now up to us in the IWWF!

21Dec17 IWWF Tournament Council names Male and Female Waterskiers of the Year 2017

Neilly Ross	Ryan Dodd
See Neilly Ross' accomplishments in 2017	See Ryan Dodd's accomplishments in 2017

06Dec17 2018 World Junior Championships and Over 35 Championships are now available on the IWWF Entry system (WorldAdmin)

WorldAdmin web site

16Nov17 Preliminary IWWF October 2017 Rankings have been released

The October 2017 Rankings are now available at http://www.iwsftournament.com/

15Nov17 Anna Gay has submitted a Record Application for 10640 points at McCormicks Fall Competition

The IWWF Tournament Council will review the submitted information.

27Oct17 2018 Elite Ranking Sanction Request Forms are now available

Click here to go to iwsfranking.com where the forms are in the left column at the bottom

14Oct17 World Record Applications have been submitted for a new Women Tricks Record

Anna Gay USA, the current World Trick Record holder at 10610 has submitted an application for a new record of 10640.
Erica Lang USA, the former record holder has submitted an application for a new record of 10760.
Both performances were at the Sunset Fall Classic tournament in Groveland, Florida.

13Oct17 IWWF Tournament Council Meeting Minutes are now available

2017 Tournament Council meeting Minutes

09Oct17 IWWF Tournament Council Expands the voting power of the Athletes Advisory Committee

The IWWF Tournament Council, per a provision in the IWWF Bylaws has expanded the council from ten to eleven by including a second vote for the Athletes Advisory Committee. This inclusion was praised by new IWWF President Jose Antonio Perez Preigo who said "I'm sure it will be a great initiative going forward. We now need the Athletes full commitment to work together with the TC and feel part of it, committed, working and happy!"

08Sep17 IWWF Tournament Council holds election

The IWWF Tournament Council elected Bob Corson - USA and Candido Moz - ITA as Co-Chairmen for the next two year term.

07Sep17 New Officers elected for the IWWF

At its biennial congress, the members of the IWWF elected Jose Antonio PEREZ PRIEGO - MEX as its new President. Formerly Jose Antonio was President of the Pan Am Region.
Gill Hill - GBR was re-elected as Secretary General.
Peter FREI - SUI was elected as treasurer.

Past President Kuno Ritschard - SUI was given sincere thanks for his 16 years as President and voted as President Emeritus.

07Sep17 Live Streaming video from the World Championships is available

Click here for live video

06Sep17 World Championships in progress in Paris

Click here for the live results

20Aug17 Malibu Open is moved to Trophy Lakes on Sep. 29-30

Organizers announced that the tournament has been moved to Charleston, S.C

Full story and details here on www.malibuopenfestival.com/

17Aug17 The Malibu Open this coming weekend has been cancelled

Statement by the organizers:
We regret to inform all the skiers, volunteers, and sponsors that the Malibu Open this coming weekend must be cancelled due to an unforeseen algae bloom at the Milwaukee Lagoon. The county has pulled our permit and will not allow the event to take place.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this will cause everyone.

09Aug17 Bulletin 3 for the World Championships is now available

Seeding Lists for the 2017 World Championships

07Aug17 Final Seeding and Individual Qualification Lists for the 2017 World Championships are now available

Individual Qualifiers Lists for the 2017 World Championships
Updated 8/8/17

24Jul17 World Games start Tuesday, July 25

Click here for a live score link and schedule

24Jul17 IWWF Tournament Council approves Ryan Dodd's 77.4m jump as the new World Record

The jump was in the first round of the Space Coast 3 Event tournament on July 1 in Florida

18Jul17 Gold medals for USA, Ukraine, Canada and Great Britain at IWWF U21 Waterski World Championships at Sentosa Waterski Club in Dnipro

14Jul17 Canada, USA and Mexico post spectacular tricks scores on first day of IWWF U21 Waterski World Championships In Dnipro, Ukraine

08Jul17 IWWF World U21 Waterski Championships could deliver new world records as rising standards continue to surprise

Additional Information Bulletin

02Jul17 Ryan Dodd (Can) News Flash Stuns World Of Waterskiing

While we await confirmations and IWWF Approval, Ryan Dodd must be smiling tonight. Reports state that he has achieved what has to be a stunning life's ambition - to add a World Jump Record to his title of World Jump Champion. All in our sport know that Freddy Krueger (USA) has totally dominated the World Record Books since 2005 - another extraordinary achievement. Ryan Dodd's 77.4m / 254ft distance behind the Nautique 200 driven by Les Todd now leaps ahead of Freddy Krueger's 76.2m. It has been a fantastic few years for Ryan Dodd with US Masters, US Open, Vladimir Filin and Sentosa Night Jump titles. Fingers crossed for final confirmations and IWWF approval for this Nautique sponsored athlete and his Pending World Jump Record. Chief Judge was Bill Wenner.

Reported by Des Burke-Kennedy

29Jun17 Addditional Information Bulletin for the 2017 World Championships has been released

27Jun17 IWWF Visits North Korea to Promote Peace & Sport Through Waterskiing & Wakeboarding

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02Jun17 World Games Training Schedule is now available

World Games Training Schedule

01Jun17 Aliaksei Zharnasek named May Athlete of the month by the International World Games Association

Click here to see Bulletin 2

31May17 U21 World Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

23May17 The IWWF Tournament Council has approved the Overall Record of Adam Sedlmayer of 2820.79 points

The individual events were 4@10.25m in slalom, 10640 points in tricks and a jump of 65.7m. Using the same calculation method at the time of the existing record, Jaret Llewellyn's performance in 2002 of 2818.01 was overtaken by only 2 points. The new record will be converted to the current calculation method which will be 2812.71. Any new record will be calculated with the current method. Jaret's record was the longest standing record of active events in IWWF history.

23May17 Aliaksei Zharnasek and Anna Gay set new pending World Trick Records of 12610 and 10880 respectively

Both performances were at the Sunset Cup and MLCQ tournament. The IWWF Tournament Council will review the submitted information.

16May17 Nate Smith USA skied 3@9.75m at the Swiss Pro Am for a new pending World Record

The IWWF Tournament Council will evaluate the record application.

15May17 May Ranking List is now available

Go to www.iwsftournament.com and click on the May 2017 Rankings

03May17 Officials named for U21 World Championships

Chief Judge: Nikki Lee USA
Assistant Chief Judge: Elena Kunert SVK
Chief Scorer: Diego Restrepo COL
Scorer: Sergey Simonov RUS
Homologator: Nigel Talamo GBR

Judges
Felipe Leal COL
Kerri Lee USA
Larry Downes USA
Marie-Anne Persoons BEL
Aristotelis Balais GRE
Daniel Partl GER
Berazouskaya Aliaksandra BLR
Barbara Gattone ITA
Masako Yamaguchi JPN

Chief Driver: Fabrizio Sonzogni ITA
Driver: Gerry Whittaker CAN

01May17 Special Rules approved for the 2017 World Games

Special Rules have been adopted by the IWWF TC for the World Games. Many events at the World Games will be televised and the rules changes were made with the intent to enable scores to be finalized quickly for a broadcast audience.

A summary of the rules can be seen here.

In a related development, the IWWF TC also approved the use of the eyeTrick system, developed by Donal Connolly, for trick judging at the World Games for enhanced speed and accuracy.

27Apr17 IWWF President attends General Assembly of the Pan American Sports Organization (PASO) in Punta Del Este, Uruguay.

Kuno Ritschard,Jose Antonio Perez Priego

This week, Kuno Ritschard, IWWF President attended the PASO General Assembly with IWWF Executive Board member Jose Antonio Perez Priego.

The Pan American Sports Organisation (PASO) is the international organization which represents the 41 National Olympic Committees of North America and South America. Since 1951, its best known event is the Pan American Games, held every four years and of great importance to our sport. International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach, praised the Pan American Sports Organization's "excellent job and great achievements" over the past two years at this 54th General Assembly in Uruguay.

President Bach noted the "speedy consideration" by countries in the Americas of the IOC's 2020 agenda, with proposals by the international organization to all of its regional entities.

PASO also elected a new president at its two-day general assembly. Chilean Olympic Committee President Neven Ilic was chosen by a narrow majority of one vote to succeed Uruguay's Julio Cesar Maglione.

27Apr17 In Memoriam

Willa Worthington Mcguire Cook 1928-2017

On Saturday, April 22nd, our sport sadly lost a true super star. Willa Worthington McGuire Cook, better known to her friends as Willa Cook, passed away at the age of 89 following an extraordinary career on the water which dates back to 1942. A three-time World Overall Waterski Champion, originally from Lake Oswego in Oregon, USA, she is recognized as the greatest female Show Skier of all time. She represented the USA at four World Waterski Championships in Juan Les Pins, France 1949, Cypress Gardens USA 1950, Toronto Canada 1953 and Beirut, Lebanon 1955. Her Show Ski career really took off in 1947 and in 1948, Pioneer Dick Pope invited her to join the famous Cypress Gardens Show. For the following 10 years, she was regarded as the star of the show. Designing Show costumes, innovating new Show tricks, directing choreography and films, performing on TV and in Movies, all came naturally to Willa. She has made an extraordinary contribution to our sport and will be sadly missed by her many friends and fans around the world. May she rest in peace.

19Apr17 World Water Ski Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

28Mar17 Overall Event Added To 2017 Malibu Open

Waterski Events LLC is pleased to announce the 2017 Malibu Open will now include an overall event to go along with the professional slalom and jumping events. The 2017 Malibu Open will be held Aug. 18-19 at Veterans Park Lagoon in Milwaukee, Wis.

27Mar17 2018 World Junior Championships to be held in Spain

The Championships will be organised by Ricardo Botas at the Sesena Waterski & Wakeboard Complex from 2-5 August 2018.

20Mar17 Course records tumble as 200,000 spectators bask in sunshine at Nautique Moomba Masters 2017 in Melbourne

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09Mar17 Melbourne’S Nautique Moomba Masters To Feature Five World Record Holders And Five World Champions At March 8/13 Showdown

Click here to see the qualifiers so far

01Mar17 Current Qualifiers List for 2017 World Championships and U21 Released

Based on the qualification Rules for the World Championships and the U21 World Championships, several categories of qualification are already set. The remaining categories, the May 2017 Ranking List and the IWWF Elite List as of August 4, 2017 are yet to be determined. Additionally, qualifiers will be selected from podium placements of the 2017 U21 Championships

27Feb17 U21 Championships Bulletin 1 is now available

U21 Bulletin 1

04Feb17 Rule Change document released by Tournament Council

The changes approved on December 12 and previously published in the TC minutes have been incorporated in the Rulebook as shown in this document:
Change Document

03Feb17 2017 World Water Ski Championships Bulletin 1 now available

16Jan17 IWWF selects Athletes of the Year 2016

2016 Junior World Championships - Bulletin 3

08Jan17 World Junior Championships completed

World Junior Championships

Girls Slalom

Jaimee Bull CAN
Brooke Baldwin USA
Neilly Ross CAN

Boys Slalom

Robert Hazelwood GBR
Arron Davies GBR
Ryan Canepa USA

Girls Jump

Dominique Grondin-Allard CAN
Sofia Maksimenkova UKR
Brooke Baldwin USA

Boys Jump

Conley Pinette CAN
Joel Poland GBR
Louis Duplan-Fribourg FRA

Girls Overall

Brooke Baldwin USA
Valentina Gonzalez CHI
Anna Gay USA

Boys Overall

Joel Poland GBR
Louis Duplan-Fribourg FRA
Robert Hazelwood GBR

Team Overall

Canada
France
Great Britain

Full Results Here

08Jan17 Medals awarded at World Junior Championships

World Junior Championships

Girls Tricks

Anna Gay USA
Neilly Ross CAN
Brooke Baldwin USA

Boys Tricks

Patricio Font MEX
Lindsay Bordier FRA
Joel Poland GBR

06Jan17 World Junior Championships continues with day 2

Live results are available here

22Dec16 The IWWF Tournament Council meeting was held on December 15

The meeting was held by video conference. The minutes are now available by clicking here.

17Dec16 IWWF Tournament Council authorizes first Elite Overall competition

The IWWF tournament council agreed in principle to sanctioning Elite Overall competitions at its 2015 meeting. It has now approved a sanction request from the City of Latrobe, Australia to hold an Introductory Elite Overall tournament on Lake Narracan on March 3-5, just prior to the Moomba Masters.
The Elite Tournament schedule is shown here.

06Dec16 Water Skier Selections for the 2017 World Games

The IWWF Tournament Council has announced the skiers selected to compete in the 2017 World Games being held in Poland. The World Games requires selection of top athletes in each event but also as much world wide representation as possible. This all must be done with a maximum of 54 athletes.
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06Dec16 IWWF Tournament council approves new World Record by Regina Jaquess of 3.5@10.25m

The record was achieved at the Isles Junior Invitational tournament on November 5th at the Isles of Lake Hancock Ski Club, Winter Garden, FL

30Nov16 Hall of Fame Nominations

http://iwwfed.com/hall-of-fame

23Nov16 World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) publishes the 2017 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods

On 29 September, the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) published the 2017 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods; along with, the 2017 Summary of Major Modifications and Explanatory Notes. The List, which is one of five International Standards that are mandatory for all Signatories of the World Anti-Doping Code (Code),designates what substances and methods are prohibited both in- and out-of-competition and which substances are banned in particular sports.

Please consult these important documents regarding anti-doping.

19Nov16 Pan American Tournament Council elects a new Chairman

The Pan American Tournament Council has elected Larry Gisler PER as its new chairman.
Jeffry Armstrong USA, the previous long time chairman has become the Pan American Region Secretary General.

19Nov16 Pan American Championships in progress

Live Results at:
http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/16MEX08/

19Nov16 Pan American Elections held

New officers of the Pan American Confederation were elected at the congress held in Chapala, Mexico.

President: Jose Antonio Perez Priego MEX
Vice President: Karen McClintock CAN
Secretary General: Jeffry Armstrong: USA

06Nov16 World Junior Championships Bulletin 3 now available

06Nov16 Preliminary Rankings for Nov. 1, 2015 to Oct.31 2016 are now available

Preliminary October 2016 Ranking List

05Nov16 Regina Jaquess sets pending World Record of 3 1/2 at 10.25m

The performance was at the Hancock Jr Clinic tournament.

04Nov16 IWWF Tournament Council approves new World Trick Record of 10610 points by Anna Gay

The performance was on October 14th at the Holy Cow Cup in Polk City, FL.

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04Nov16 International Hall Of Fame - Time To Submit Your Nominations For 2017

Yes, it is that time again ! It could not be easier. We have a special online entry Form for submissions for ATHLETES, OFFICIALS and PIONEERS. The details are explained on each Form HERE :
http://iwwfed.com/hall-of-fame

Please be careful not to click the SUBMIT NOMINATION button until it has been fully completed. Your nomination must also be approved by your Federation. Good luck to all. Our nine Selectors are looking forward to receiving your nominations.

CLOSING DATE FOR ENTRIES : DECEMBER 31st 2016
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10Oct16 Panel appointed for the 2017 Disabled Worlds

The Championships take place April 24 - 30 in Myuna Bay, NSW, Australia

Chief Judge: Bill Bowness USA
Assistant Chief Judge: Leigh Southwell AUS
Chief Calculator: Dany De Bakker BEL
Chief Homologator: Neil O'Toole AUS
Scorer: Leigh Purcell AUS

Judges:
Denni Purcell AUS
Kevin Wiseman AUS
Carmen Ferrer Bosch ESP
Ivar Fosse NOR
Jimmie Pahlsson SWE
Larry Downes USA
Dan Van Dyk USA

Chief Driver: Shane Coulter AUS

Driver: Will Bush USA

Note: The three-person Classification team will be named later.

06Oct16 2016 Centurion World WakeSurfing Championships Final Results And Recap

28Sep16 Three pending World Records set at the Ski Fluid Invitational tournament in Polk City, Florida

Jacinta Carroll jumped 59.2m in round 1 and 60.3m in round 2.
Anna Gay tricked 10610.

The records will be reviewed by the IWWF Tournament Council for approval.

26Sep16 Italy impresses but Australia dominates IWWF Wakeboard World Cup at YiHe Open Championships in Linyi, China

21Sep16 World Cup Wakeboard stars arrive in Linyi, China for final Stop of 2016 incorporated into Yihe Open Championships

21Sep16 Cable Wakeboard World Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

20Sep16 Waterski seniors turn out in force for over 35s World Championships in Sesena, Spain as legends take gold medals and break world records

19Sep16 2016 World 35+ Water Ski Championships

2016 World 35+ Water Ski Championships Team Overall

USA 12239.46
France 10228.02
Canada 9721.30

19Sep16 Final Medals awarded at World 35+ Championships

17Sep16 World Champions crowned at 35+ Championships

16Sep16 Junior World Championships Bulletin #2 is now available

Bulletin #2
Updated 21Sep16

15Sep16 Wakeboard World Cup & Yihe Open return to impressive Linyi City Waterfront Stadium in China September 23/25

12Sep16 Earlier predictions at FISU World University Waterski Championships turned upside down in Akita, Japan

12Sep16 World Ski Show Championships final results

2016 World Water Ski Show Championships

USA 1944.92 points
Australia 1794.94
Canada 1684.32
China 1585.30
Belgium 1540.18

11Sep16 4th WUC Waterski - Overview Day 3: Slalom & Tricks

10Sep16 4th WUC Waterski – Big Surprises in Preliminary Rounds after Day 2

09Sep16 4th WUC Waterski – Overview Day 1

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09Sep16 2016 World Waterski Show Tournament in progress

Friday, September 9th, 2016 at 5:00 PM EDT on tomreid

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09Sep16 News from our Official boat partner Centurion

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07Sep16 Japan's seasonal typhoons unlikely to hit World University Waterski Championships as athletes from nineteen countries enjoy colourful traditional opening ceremony in Akita

03Sep16 International Hall of Fame Invites Submissions for Awards 2017

The first candidates were inducted into our International Hall of Fame in 1989. Since then, a total of 78 Athletes, Officials and Pioneers have been granted the highest award of the IWWF. Now it is time to focus on who will be inducted at our Award Ceremony in Paris during next year’s Waterski World Championships. We need your help to make this a success.
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31Aug16 World University Waterski Championships Set for Spectacular September Venue in Akita, Northern Japan

30Aug16 2016 World Waterski Show Tournament

Friday, September 9th, 2016 at 5:00 PM EDT on tomreid

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27Aug16 IWWF Asia Elects A New President

Thomas Lin

Congratulations to Thomas Lin who has been elected President of IWWF Asia. We wish him every success with his appointment. He has taken over this position from Paul Fong who was recently appointed IWWF Executive Director. Chris Howarth, the experienced and long serving IWWF Treasurer will continue his role as IWWF Asia's Secretary General

22Aug16 Barefoot Waterski World Champions Crowned Last Night Following Spectacular Show

Winning Teams

The 2016 World Barefoot Waterski Championships are over after an incredible day of competition that had perennial champions and young guns facing off on the water of the Blue Moo.

New Zealand's Georgia Groen captured the Womens Overall title for the first time from Australia's Ashleigh Stebbeings. Stebbeings won Slalom, Groen won Tricks. But the overall title all came down to jump with Stebbeings needing to land a record-breaking 22 meter jump to win it all. She landed a 21.9 meter jump to set a world record but it was just short of getting the points necessary to win overall. Stebbeings walks away from the championships with the jump world record and a pending slalom world record. Her performance helped lead Australia to the top of the open team competition.

The mens competition was just as exciting as David Small of Great Britain won the overall title for the sixth time in a row. Keith St. Onge of the USA won slalom and Small won Tricks with yet another pending world record. St. Onge also set a pending tricks world record with his second place finish. The surprise of the night was 13-year-old Jackson Gerard of the USA, Junior Boys Overall champion, who joined Small and St. Onge on the medal podium in the bronze position with a trick run of 11,900 points.

The finals for mens jump were held under the lights in front of a raucous evening crowd. The Queen would have been proud as Small won jump with a 26.9 meter jump followed closely by St. Onge and young Tom Heaps, the competitor from Great Britain who set the junior world jump record earlier in the week.

OPEN TEAM OVERALL RESULTS :
1. Australia
2. USA
3. New Zealand

For all the scores and more go to BarefootWorlds.org

21Aug16 Bulletin 3 for the World University Championships is now available

21Aug16 World Records Fall & Champions Crowned on Friday at the World Barefoot Waterski Championships

Ashleigh Stebbeings

Another record-breaking day at the 2016 World Barefoot Waterski Championships in Alma Center, Wisconsin as the team competition wraps up at the Blue Moo.

The day kicked off as Ashleigh Stebbeings AUS set a pending World Slalom Record of 18 in the semi-final round of the Open Women's Division. Stebbeings’ performance helped lead the Australian team to victory in the Open Division Team competition.

The Junior and Senior World Championships finished up with the naming of the Team and Overall Champions. Ken Derry of Australia captured the Senior Mens Overall title and Teri Jones of the USA won the Senior Women's Overall. The Senior Team title went to the USA.

Lexi McCauley USA

In the Junior division, it was all red, white and blue with Jackson Gerard of the USA winning the Boys Overall title and Lexi McCauley of the USA winning the Girls Overall title. McCauley won the Gold in Slalom, Tricks and Jump, propelling the U.S. Junior Team to top of the Team competition. It was only the fourth time a junior competitor has brought home five gold medals in a World Championship.

Junior Teams Medal Ceremony

The Open Mens and Womens individual finals will be held on Saturday, August 20 culminating with the exciting Night Jump Finals. For live streaming and the latest scores go to BarefootWorlds.org.

20Aug16 World 35+ Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

The Championships will be held at the Sesena Waterski & Wakeboard Complex in Toledo, Spain from September 14 - 18, 2016.

Attention: There are changes to the schedule and some other items all of which are shown in RED.

19Aug16 World Records broken at the Barefoot Waterski World Championships 2016

David Small GBR

As the sun baked the corn fields of Central Wisconsin on day five of the 2016 World Barefoot Waterski Championships, athletes were setting the water on fire with some record-breaking performances.

David Small of Great Britain set a pending world record of 13,150 points in the semi-final round of Open Mens Tricks. Small, the four-time Mens World Overall Champion, also set a pending world record of 13,300 points in the preliminary round earlier in the week. It has been an incredible month for Small. He also set a pending world record of 14,150 on August 6 at the U.S. Barefoot National Championships. Small holds the current world record of 12,150 which he set back in 2010.

Tom Heaps GBR Tom Heaps of Great Britain set a Junior World Jump Record of 26.7 meters in the Junior Boys Jump Finals. Heaps, who competes in both the Junior and Open divisions had tied the Junior World Record of 26.3 meters earlier in the week. The record was set by Andre DeVilliers of South Africa back in 2004.

The 2016 World Barefoot Waterski Championships continue until Saturday, August 21. For the latest scores and to watch live streaming video of the event, go to BarefootWorlds.org.

GREAT PHOTOS FROM DAVID WEBER PHOTOGRAPHY

17Aug16 2016 Pan Am Championships Bulletin 1 is now available

2016 Pan Am Bulletin 1

15Aug16 Europe Africa Wakeboard 2016 Championships Attract Entries From 15 Countries

Over 100 Riders competed in this six-day battle for medals in Coleraine in Northern Ireland. The Riders from 15 countries included Austria, Belgium, Egypt, France, Great Britain, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Switzerland and Sweden. These included the IWWF World Champion Massi Piffaretti ITA and the defending Europe Africa Champion, David O’Caoimh IRL.

13Aug16 2016 World Barefoot Water-Ski Championships

The 2016 World Barefoot Water-Ski Championships will start on Saturday night here in Alma Center, Wisconsin USA. The event will run from August 14th thru August 20th. I would like to share a number of locations which will have information so you can follow the event and your favorite skiers.

If you would like to follow the event in real-time you will find the video stream found at:
http://www.barefootworlds.org

2016 Asian Championships Bulletin 2

10Aug16 2016 Asian Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

09Aug16 2016 Beaujax All Women's Wakeboard Tournament 3rd & 4th September 2016

http://www.beaujaxcup.com.tw/event

This is an IWWF Women & Sports’ event

01Aug16 2017 World Disabled Waterski Championships

It is with great pleasure that we announce that the 2017 World Disabled Waterski Championships will be held from April 27 - 30, 2017 at the beautiful Myuna Bay Water Ski Club venue at Lake Macquarie, NSW, Australia. We are looking forward to welcoming all to this spectacular and uplifiting event.

24Jul16 2017 Waterski World Championships to be held in Paris

It is with great pleasure that we announce that the 2017 World Waterski Championships will be held from September 3 - 10, 2017 at Choisy-le-Roi, Paris , France. The French Federation is determined to stage a memorable event for all, and a great turnout is expected for this thrill-packed week of Waterski at its finest!

Please also note that the 2017 IWWF World Congress will take place Thursday, September 7, 2017, late afternoon.

Bulletins for the Championships and further information regarding Congress will be forthcoming in due time.

05Jul16 Experimental Ranking systems being considered by IWWF Tournament Council

The IWWF TC is evaluating two proposed ranking systems to replace the current performance based system. The first system is currently used by the cableski division and is based on placement. Points are given for specific placement and then modified based on the type of tournament and the number of ranked skiers in the competition. A technical description and the results of this system which is dynamic based on the last year's performances can be seen at: http://www.iwsftournament.com/homologation/DisplayRanking.php

The second system is a system currently in use by some sports and games associations, notably the Chess Federation, called the ELO system after its creator. The system establishes a ranking for each competitor. When the athletes compete, their probability of success is calculated based on the rankings of the skiers in the event. How each skier does against his calculated probability raises or lowers his ranking. A technical description and the results of this system which is dynamic based on the performances starting on May 1, 2016 can be seen at: http://www.iwsftournament.com/homologation/eloDisplayRanking.php
The initial rankings are based on the May 1 performance ranking list.

Permanent links to these results are under the ranking lists header in the left column on iwwfed.com

27Jun16 2016 Cable Wakeboard World Championships Bulletin #1 is now available

2016 Ski Show Competition Rules

16Jun16 Officials named for 2016 World Junior Championships

Chief Judge:Francine Lion FRA
Assistant Chief Judge: Felipe Leal COL
Homologator: Zdnek Kolman CZE
Chief Calculator: Galli Elisabetta ITA
Assistant Calculator: Norzeela Sulaiman MAS

Judges:
Nikki Lee USA
Angelica Cifuentes COL
Mark Stevens CAN
Robert Ritter CHL
Barbara Gattone ITA
Gavin Kelly GBR
Jonathan Tordo FRA
Phillipa Yoong MAS

Chief Driver: Marke Roske USA
Drivers:
Danny Hon Nam Choo MAS
Davide Gandola ITA

Alternate Driver: Nigel Sparrow AUS

16Jun16 2016 Ski Show Competition Rules are now available

15Jun16 Aktion Parks Announces Plans For Third Boat & Cable Park – Elite Cable Park

ORLANDO, FL (June 15, 2016) – Today, Aktion Parks, a subsidiary of Correct Craft, announced plans to build its third boat and cable park, Elite Cable Park (ECP), in partnership with the USA Water Ski Foundation (USA-WSF).

Elite Cable Park will be part of USA-WSF’s new headquarters and training center to be built at the city of Auburndale’s $25 million Lake Myrtle Sports Complex located at 905 Lake Myrtle Park Road, Auburndale, FL 33823.

Situated on Lake Myrtle, a beautiful 76-acre freshwater lake, ECP will be staffed with experienced coaches offering lessons in wakeboarding, wakesurfing, and other watersports of all skill levels. Like Aktion’s other world famous parks (Orlando Watersports Complex and Miami Watersports Complex), ECP will provide Hyperlite equipment for all lessons and host events that feature the award-winning Nautique Boats.

USA-WSF’s Executive Director Tracy Mattes stated, “The Aktion Parks team has an outstanding reputation in the industry for delivering top service with integrity and we are excited to have them operating this park.” Mattes added, “With more than 100,000 visitors coming through the park each year for multiple sports, including soccer, baseball, and youth football, the water sports complex has a built-in audience and will provide opportunities to create synergies with other sporting and community events.”

Bill Yeargin, CEO of Correct Craft (owner of Aktion Parks) stated, “We are thrilled to partner with USA-WSF to develop this outstanding new cable park. ECP will live up to its ‘Elite’ name and offer our customers exceptional experiences!”

Fully opening in 2018, ECP will be a world-class training facility as well as an international destination to experience watersports. In addition to ECP, USA-WSF’s new facility will include a new headquarters building, three tournament ski lakes, a café on the water, and a pro shop. For future updates about Elite Cable Park, visit www.aktionparks.com/elite.
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03Jun16 IWWF Preliminary Water Ski Ranking List is now available

May 2016 Preliminary List
This list is used for qualification for the 2016 World 35+ Championships and the 2016 World Junior Championships

01Jun16 2016 World University Championships Bulletin #2 is now available.

2016 FISU Bulletin 2

23May16 The Masters Waterski & Wakeboard Tournament May 26th – 29th

With the completion of the very competitive LCQ event at Sunset Lakes this past weekend, the stage is now set for next weekend’s 57th Masters plus the 24th Junior Masters at Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia, USA. The Open Tournament entry list this year includes every one of the current World Record holders in Slalom, Nate Smith USA and Regina Jaques USA, in Tricks, Aliaksei Zharnasek BLR and Erika Lang USA, and in Jump, Freddy Krueger USA and Jacinta Carroll AUS.

Following the very successful Masters LCQ battle at Jack Travers Sunset Lakes yesterday, the top places were taken by Hanna Edeback SWE and Stephen Neveu CAN in Slalom, Clementine Lucine FRA and Russell Gay USA in Tricks, and Damien Sharman GBR and Alex Lauretano USA in Jump.

Details : http://www.masterswaterski.com
Timetable : http://www.masterswaterski.com/schedule
Entries : http://www.masterswaterski.com/athletes
Webcast : http://www.masterswaterski.com/video

20May16 World Barefoot Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

Bulletin 2
Entry Forms are also available.
Team Entry
Individual Entry

18May16 Updated Tournament Rulebook released by IWWF Tournament Council

2016 Tournament Rulebook

16May16 Officials Appointed for World 35+ Championships

Chief Judge: Candido Moz ITA
Assistant Chief Judge: Mike Wrenn AUS
Chief Calculator: Hannu Rintanen FIN
Assistant Calculator: Tina Lindsey USA
Homologator: Peter Collins GBR

Judges:
Jennyfer Cadena MEX
Ruth Johnston USA
Mike Hayes USA
Morten Froulund DEN
Jill Howard GBR
Roy Collins GBR

Chief Driver: Mario Pigozzi DOM

Driver: Glen Martin AUS

Alternate Drivers:
Phil Ingle GBR
Russ Dickson CAN

15May16 2016 Ski Show Worlds Bulletin #3 is now available

2016 Ski Show Worlds Bulletin #3

08May16 The IWWF Tournament Council has expanded the entry for the World 35+ Championships

The tournament Council has voted to allow each Federation an additional 5 Wild Card entries for the 65+ division. Wild Card skiers must still meet the minimum entry level requirements.

06May16 2016 Disabled Rules are now available

2016 Disabled Rules

06May16 IWWF introduces experimental placement ranking system

The IWWF has created an experimental Placement Ranking List. Skiers earn points based on the place they finished rather than the performance. Also factored in is the ranking of other skiers in the tournament if they are in the top 60 and the type of tournament.
Click here for a detailed description.

The rankings use the tournament data submitted scores and are dynamic, being updated every midnight and using scores in the preceding one year period.

As the system is experimental, it will be evaluated and modified as necessary. The goal is to replace the performance ranking with the placement ranking to reflect the importance of competition rather than raw results.

IWWF Experimental Placement Ranking System

05May16 2016 IWWF Competition Handbook for Disabled is now available

2016 Disabled Handbook

15Apr16 2016 AAO Championships Bulletin is now available

07Apr16 2016 Junior World Championships Bulletin #1 is now available

The 2016 World Junior Championships will be held at the Lago los Morros venue in Santiago, Chile from January 5-8, 2017.

Bulletin #1

04Apr16 2016 Water Ski Rulebook is now available

2016 Rulebook Final Version
Revision 1

04Apr16 35+ World Water Ski Championships Bulletin 1 is now available

Please note Championship dates are now Sept 14-18

16Mar16 IWWF Officials attend WADA Symposium

IWWF Executive Director, Paul Fong, and IWWF Secretary General, Gill Hill, at the 2016 WADA Anti Doping Association (ADO) Symposium in Lausanne

15Mar16 Moomba Masters Drama As Records Exceeded Six Times And Thousands Enjoy The Thrilling Downtown Spectacle On Melbourne’s Yarra River

11Mar16 IWWF 1st Asian Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Cup 2016 to be held at Phuket Wake Park in Thailand

Media Release

07Mar16 Officials Appointed for 2016 World Ski Show Championships

2016 World Water Ski Show Tournament Officials

Chief Judge
Henke, Jeff (USA)

Scoring Judges
Declercq, Sabine (Belgium)
Farra, Deb (USA)
Horton, Colleen (Australia)
Kinney, Cheryl (USA)
Nemec, Polly (USA)
Oleson, Sandi (USA)
Snow, Andy (USA)

Secretary
Chen, Lili (China)
Christianson, Taylor (USA)
Henke, Jane (USA)
Johanningmeier, Joel (USA)
Poulos, Pam (USA)
Richarz, Jutta (Germany)
Sachs, Ellen (USA)

Chief Scorer
Snow, Barb (USA)

Scorer
Poulos, Mark (USA)

Chief Safety
Hahner, Steve (USA)

Assistant Safety
McMillan, Kurtis (USA)

Timer/Staging Marshall
Vermillan, Rich (USA)

03Mar16 2016 World Over 35 Waterski Championships awarded to Sesena's Waterski in Toledo, Spain

The Championships will take place from 14 – 18 September 2016
Revised 04Apr16

02Mar16 Melbourne’s Moomba Masters Attracts Six World Champions As 200,000 Waterski & Wakeboard Fans Await March 9/14 Spectacle

01Mar16 Officials Appointed for World University Championships

2016 FISU World University Water Ski Championships

Ogata Village, Japan
September 8-11, 2016

Officials

Chief Judge: Marie -Anne Persoons BEL
Chief Calculator: ULF Langrock GER
Assistant Chief Calculator: Nikki Lee USA
Calculator: Ann Stevens CAN
Homologator: Nigel Talamo Hong Kong
Chief Driver: Shane Coulter AUS
Chief Announcer: Des Burke-Kennedy IRE

Judges
Jeff Surdej USA
Felipe Leal COL
Mark Stevens CAN
Cole Atkinson NZL
Kerri Lee USA
Muriel Fromiau FRA
Gavin Kelly GBR
Ilaria Buzzotta ITA
Francine Lion FRA
Leon Larson USA

Drivers
Campbell McCracken NZL
Dave Nichols USA
Fabrizio Sonzogni ITA

16Feb16 2016 Ski Show Worlds Bulletin #2 is now available

11Feb16 International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation and Correct Craft announce major agreements with both Nautique Boat Company Inc. and Centurion Boats

http://www.theworldgames.org/the-iwga/athlete-of-the-month/24-athlete-of-the-year-2015

07Feb16 Video of 2015 World Water Ski Championships Finals is now available on the IWWF YouTube Channel

Awesome Jump Action
Waterski World Championships Finals 2015

LADIES : https://youtu.be/Lnmd2w5FX1s
MEN : https://youtu.be/PNxw_cjF2tg

Stunning Tricks Action
Waterski World Championships Finals 2015

LADIES : https://youtu.be/qXANv8Jp-6c
MEN : https://youtu.be/8rW_npLlA3o

Great Slalom Action
Waterski World Championships Finals 2015

LADIES : https://youtu.be/LhbroKI6lqA
MEN : https://youtu.be/qrPZl6xLRC4

04Feb16 IWWF Europe Africa Congress Attracts Representatives From Twenty Four Countries Last Weekend

Castelldefels on the outskirts of Barcelona in Spain was this year’s venue for the annual Europe Africa Congress. The Spanish Waterski & Wakeboard Federation was represented by Carmen Ferrer Bosch who organized the first class event with outstanding conference facilities. Alain Amade, EA Confederation President FRA, welcomed all. Andy Harris GBR acted as Congress Chairman. The 25 point Agenda included many detailed presentations which included Patrice Martin FRA on impressive Cable progress in France, Candido Moz ITA on Bye-Law changes and “Intention to Enter” difficulties, Uwe Goldstein GER and Marie Ann Persoons BEL on Cable Parks challenges, Des Burke-Kennedy IWWF International Hall of Fame Chairman on how to put candidates forward, and many other contributors. Clementine Lucine FRA, as athletes representative, was a welcome attendee.

Alain Amade FRA was re-elected President and announced his wish for this to be his last term. Both re-elected also were Sid Adriaensen BEL as Secretary and Dominique Lakens Douwes NED as Treasurer. Those elected for the Admincom included Peter Frei SUI, Andy Harris GBR, Patrice Martin FRA and Depi Papademitriou GRE.

All welcomed the positive outcome in the accounts for 2015. Details of Bids, Calendar, Councils, Reports, Finances, etc., will be included in the Minutes to be released shortly.

04Feb16 IWWF selects Athletes of the Year 2015

	Female IWWF Athlete of the Year - Regina Jaquess - USA
	Male IWWF Athlete of the Year - Adam Sedlmajer - CZE

28Jan16 2016 FISU World University Water Ski Championships
Ogata Village, Akita Prefecture, Japan

We are receiving many questions concerning registration through the new FISU online Registration System (OAC). Because of the registration timeline for our event, we find ourselves as one of the first to go through the process.

First of all, all of our teams must be registered by their respective National University Sports Federations. Here is the link to all FISU Member Federations, in case you need contact information.

Here is the link to the FISU Registration System. When you click it, you will see a page that asks you to enter your Username/email address and a password to sign in. The problem is that these codes belong to the NUSF in each country so you will either have to get them from the NUSF or have them handle the registration for you. The best way is to first contact your NUSF and see how they would like to handle your teams registration.

Sorry for the confusion. This will all be ironed out shortly but, as I said, we are all doing this for the first time and it will take a while to smooth things out. If you have any questions or problems, please contact me (philchase@sbcglobal.net) directly and I will try to answer your questions or get the answers directly from FISU and/or the Organizing Committee.

Thanks for your patience.

Phil Chase
Chairman University Commission

24Jan16 Centurion Chosen As Official Towboat Of The IWWF Wakeboard World Championships

Read about it here

21Jan16 Nautique Celebrates Completion Of State-Of-The-Art Manufacturing Facility Expansion Project

Orlando, FLA (January 20, 2016) – Today, a ribbon-cutting ceremony was held at Nautique Boat Company’s world headquarters and manufacturing facility to celebrate the recently completed expansion project that began in June of 2015.

Nautique is the world leader in building the most innovative, high-quality towboats on the water at their world-class manufacturing facility located in Orlando, FL USA. The 53,041 square foot expansion brings the facility to a total of 269,936 square feet and includes significant improvements that allow Nautique to increase production and continue to advance their world-class manufacturing techniques. As Nautique continues to experience significant growth in the worldwide marketplace the company plans to increase its workforce by over 100 employees in the next three years to meet consumer demand.

“The entire Nautique team is excited about the new opportunities and manufacturing processes this facility expansion allows us to implement,” stated Nautique President Greg Meloon. “As we stay at the cutting edge of manufacturing and design, our facility will provide us the ability to continue to progress and lead the industry in innovation and quality,” Meloon added.

16Jan16 Nautique Announces Extended Partnership With The International Waterski And Wakeboard Federation

Orlando, FLA (January 15, 2016) – Today, Nautique Boats and the International Waterski and Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) announced a ten-year extension to their partnership naming Nautique the exclusive boat of the 2016-2025 Water Ski World Championships.

This long-term agreement solidifies the clear dedication of both organizations to promote the growth of watersports worldwide showcasing the world’s best athletes behind the world’s best boat. The world-record setting Ski Nautique is the official towboat of all IWWF-sanctioned Water Ski World Championships. These premier events include the World Water Ski Championships, World Junior Championships, World Under 21 Championships, World Over 35 Championships, World University Championships and World Disabled Championships.

“We are extremely excited to further our partnership with the IWWF and work together to promote water skiing at the highest level all over the globe,” stated Nautique President Greg Meloon. “The reception by the entire industry that Nautique was selected as the exclusive and official boat of the water ski world championships has been nothing short of amazing. The industry is excited to have Nautique pulling these world championship events and we are fully committed to providing the very best boats anywhere in the world,” Meloon added.

About Nautique Boat Company
Celebrating 91 years of excellence in the marine industry, Nautique is a subsidiary of Correct Craft and has been on the waters of the world with a passion for innovation since 1925. Nautique is known to push the envelope of possibility on the water, and our owners have come to expect nothing but the absolute best. The Ski Nautique 200 has changed waterskiing with 19 world records, the G-Series has won numerous awards for wakeboard boat and wakesurf boat of the year while unlocking new possibilities in wakeboarding and wakesurfing, and our Sport Series has given families endless days on the water without compromise. Through our Nautique Cares initiatives we’re dedicated to not only making a difference on the water, but to people in need around the world. The world’s best ski boat, world’s best wake boat, and a company that cares. To learn more visit Nautique.com.

13Jan16 IWWF Councils pick their Athletes of the Year 2015

From these selections, the IWWF Executive Board will select the IWWF Male and Female Athlete of the Year

(click on the selection for pictures and information)
Barefoot Council
Female Barefoot Athlete of the Year - Ashleigh Stebbings - AUS
Male Barefoot Athlete of the Year - Ben Groen - NZL

Cableski Council
Female Cableski Athlete of the Year - Hanne Straltsova - BLR
Male Cableski Athlete of the Year - Aviv Levi - ISR

Disabled Council
Female Disabled Athlete of the Year - Ashley Baerg - CAN
Male Disabled Athlete of the Year - Connor Poggetto - USA

Racing Council
Female Racing Athlete of the Year - Leanne Campbell - AUS
Male Racing Athlete of the Year - Peter Procter - AUS

Tournament Council
Female Water Skier of the Year - Regina Jaquess - USA
Male Water Skier of the Year - Adam Sedlmajer - CZE

Wakeboard Boat Council
Female Wakeboard Rider of the Year -Megan Ethell - USA
Male Wakeboard Rider of the Year - Massimiliano Piffaretti - ITA

07Jan16 2016 World University Championships Bulletin 1 is now available

Bulletin #1

07Jan16 2016 World Junior Waterski Championships dates are now confirmed to be Jan. 5-8, 2017

The Chile Waterski and Wakeboard Federation has confirmed that the official dates for the 2016 World Junior Championships are December 1-4, 2016 to be held in Santiago at the same site of the 2013 World Championships
UPDATE The final dates are Jan. 5-8, 2017
revised 2/16/2016

06Jan16 You Can Make Our World Champion The International Athlete Of The Year

Regina Jaquess - World Champion

The International World Games Association (IWGA) comprises 37 International Sports Federations, is supported by the IOC, is part of the Olympic movement and is the organiser of the World Games. The IWGA organises an annual Poll to select their 2015 Athlete of the Year - based purely on the number of votes received for the selected athletes. This year there are eighteen contenders - including World Slalom and Overall Waterski Champion Regina Regina Jaquess.

Regina won the World Games Gold Medal in 2011. The year 2015 has been an extraordinary one for her. Your votes will bring this to the attention of the world ! Her 2015 achievements alone include - Slalom and Overall Gold at our World Championships, Slalom, Jump and Overall Gold at the US Goode National Waterski Championships, Jump Gold, Slalom Silver and Overall Silver at the PanAm Championships, Slalom Gold at the US Masters, Slalom Gold at the Swiss Pro, Slalom Gold at the California ProAm, Slalom Gold and Jump Silver at the Malibu Open and Slalom Gold at the Malibu Cup.

You are permitted to vote ONCE EVERY DAY on EACH of your devices - till the end of January. The world will be watching our efforts !

Here is the Voting Link :

06Jan16 2016 World Barefoot Championships Bulletin 1 and Intent to Enter Form are now available

The 2016 World Barefoot Championships will be held at the Blue Moo venue in Alma Center, Wisconsin (USA) from August 13 - 20, 2016.

Bulletin 1
Intention to Enter Form

11Dec15 2015 Water Ski Rankings are now available

2015 Water Ski Rankings

06Dec15 New Executive Director Appointed By International.Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF)

Paul Fong SIN

Following the recent Waterski and Wakeboard World Championships in Mexico, the current global boom in Cable Waterski and Wakeboard Parks and also celebrations of the 45th World Cup Stop, the IWWF announced in Switzerland today the appointment of a new Executive Director, Paul Fong from Singapore. He will work closely with IWWF President Kuno Ritschard and the Executive Board. The appointment will commence on March 1st 2016.

Paul Fong, aged 50, married with two children, is currently based in Singapore and is the President of the Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Confederation. He studied Economics in the USA at the University of South Florida and Rollins College in Florida where he was also a Waterski Team member. He was a member of the IWWF Tournament Council from 2000 to 2008 and a member of the World Cup Committee and Wakeboard Council. Working closely with HSBC Bank, he organized successful World Cup Stops sponsored by the Bank in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and others in the region, including China. He has also been involved in Wakesurf, Cable Wakeboard and Barefoot skiing.

At a time when the IWWF is expanding its involvement in Multi-Sport Games, supporting the International Olympic Committee and encouraging the global growth of Cable Wakeboard and Waterski Parks, Paul Fong will play a vital role in the future development of the IWWF.

28Nov15 The IWWF Tournament Council met during the recent World Championships in Chapala, Mexico. The meeting minutes are now available.

2015 IWWF Tournament Council Meeting Minutes

24Nov15 2016 World Ski Show Tournament Bulletin 1 is now available

The IWWF Show Ski Committee and the Organizing Committee announce the availibility of Bulletin 1 for the 2016 World Show Ski Tournament. The Show Ski Tournament will take place in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin (USA), from September 9 - 11, 2016.

Ski Show Bulletin 1

24Nov15 Waterski World Championships dominated by youngest athletes as records fall and Canada celebrates team overall victory with some sadness

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23Nov15 World Water Ski Championships finish in Chapala

2015 World Water Ski Championships Team Overall

Canada
USA
France

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21Nov15 First Medals awarded at 2015 Water Ski World Championships in Chapala, Mexico

16Nov15 Drama and high expectations as the Waterski World Championships begin at Boca Laguna in Chapala, Mexico

15Nov15 IWWF Tournament Council Approves Jacinta Carroll AUS Jump Records of 58.8m and 59.1m

Jacinta had these performances at the Sunset Cup - MLCQ at Sunset Lakes in Groveland, FL on May 16th and May 17th.

06Nov15 World Water Ski Championships Bulletin 3 is now available

02Nov15 Massi Hits International World Games Headlines Today

The World Games are held every four years and the next ones will be in Wroclaw Poland in 2017. This is the perfect stage for showcasing Wakeboard as a potential Olympic sport. Working closely with the IOC, the IWGA selected our new World Wakeboard Champion Massi Piffaretti ITA today as their ATHLETE OF THE MONTH. 'Big congratulations to Massi - and watch out for him in Poland at the 2017 World Games.
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02Nov15 Sensational Upset At Wakeboard World Championships Finals In Mexico’s Mayan Watersports Complex In Cancun

Individual Qualifiers List

02Nov15 2015 IWWF Wakeboard World Championships Final Results

Team Overall

Italy
Australia
USA

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31Oct15 Water Ski World Championships Individual Qualifiers List and Seeding List are now available on-line

Seeding List

31Oct15 2015 Asian Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

27Oct15 Wakeboard World Championships opening ceremony escapes Hurricane Patricia in Cancun, Mexico as riders from thirty countries arrive on site

26Oct15 First Asia & Oceania Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships

AO athletes and officials

22Oct15 Nautique Team Serves In Asia –
Opens First Cable Park In Cambodia

NAUTIQUE CARES TEAM IN CAMBODIA

ORLANDO, FLA (October 21, 2015) – Nautique athletes Shaun Murray, Bob Soven, Raimi Merritt and Emily Durham traveled from Orlando, FL to Cambodia this past week along with Nautique and Aktion Parks staff as part of a Nautique Cares initiative. The group joined the owners of Kam-Air Wake Park, Alf Evans and John Phifer, whose vision is to use the sport of wakeboarding as a platform to make a positive impact in the area.
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22Oct15 WORLD CUP LINYI - IWWF TV Shows Released Today

The IWWF Linyi China World Cup TV edits have now been completed and were also uploaded on our own YouTube Channel. The TV Show will now be distributed globally.

LINYI CHINA RETURN - INTRO
https://youtu.be/85QW3AoMrEc?list=PLhrSN8bTT1CBBL-7JC2No64YU9thkg4Z7

PRO WOMEN LINYI WORLD CUP FINAL
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PRO MEN LINYI WORLD CUP FINAL
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08Oct15 Wakeboard World Championships 2015 set for Cancun in Mexico announces US$50,000 cash purse for first time

05Oct15 Aliaksei Zharnasek BLR sets a pending World Record of 12,610 points

The performance was on Saturday in the first round of the Sunset Fall Classic in Groveland, Fla.

05Oct15 Germany, Poland and Russia take Shanghai World Cup gold medals in semi-typhoon conditions at Bi Hai Jin Sha Water Park during China's massive Golden Week celebrations

02Oct15 Bulletin 3 is now available for the 2015 World Wakeboard Championships

Intention to Enter

01Oct15 Linyi confers Honorary Citizenship to IWWF President

At the prize giving of the World Cup in Linyi the Vice-Mayor of Linyi, Mrs. Zhao Ai hua, presents the Certificate of Honorary Citizenship to IWWF President, Kuno Ritschard

30Sep15 Shanghai welcomes World Cup Wakeboard and Jump athletes from forty countries to Bihai Jinsha Water Park this weekend

28Sep15 Australia and Great Britain take China gold medals in style at spectacular Linyi City Wakeboard World Cup Stop

28Sep15 World Disabled Championships completed

2015 World Disabled Water Ski Championships Team Overall

USA
Australia
Italy

Full Results at: http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/disabled/15IWWFD01/

22Sep15 IWWF World Cup Series Returns to China’s Linyi City This Weekend for the YiHe Open Wakeboard Championships

2015 SINGHA IWWF Asian Championships Bulletin 1

17Sep15 Information Bulletin No. 1 for the 2015 Singha Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Championships is now available

The Championships are being held 4th to 8th November 2015 - Rabbit Lake - Bangkok, Thailand

The document contains:
• Information Bulletin No. 1
• Intent to Enter Form – Deadline 30th September 2015
• Entry Form – Submission Deadline 14th October 2015
• Airport Transfer Request Form – Submission Deadline 14th October 2015
• Hotel Reservation Form – Submission Deadline 14th October 2015
• Unofficial Practice Request Form - Submission Deadline 14th October 2015
• 2015 SINGHA IWWF Asian Championships' Things to Do Guide

17Sep15 Record Number of Forty Countries Expected to Take Part in Cable Wakeboard & Jump World Cup Shanghai Oct 3/4

15Sep15 Waterski World Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

15Sep15 World Of Waterskiing Says Sad Farewell To Andy Mapple O.B.E

Following the recent sad loss of Andy Mapple, regarded as the greatest Slalom Skier of all time, a celebration of his life was held on Saturday at the First Baptist Church of Orlando. Following the service, a special gathering was organised by his wife Deena and son and daughter Michael and Elyssa at the Mapple Performance Center on West Sand Lake Road in Orlando. It was a very moving tribute with videos, photos and many excellent speeches.

Over 500 people attended this remarkable commemoration – many from the USA, Canada, Europe and as far as Australia. This included IWWF President Kuno Ritschard and a large number of our international stars – Kris and Bob Lapoint, Carl Roberge, Wade Cox, George Athans, Jodi Fisher, Camille Duvall, Ricky McCormick, Liz Allen, Lisa StJohn, Freddie Krueger, Scot Ellis, Rob Shirley, Fran Hynes, Walter Meloon and many, many others. Each person present received a special memorial tag.

During the Service, the Pastor summarized the sad thoughts of all who were fortunate to know Andy Mapple with the words “You never know how tall a tree is until it falls from the forest” Our thoughts are with all the Mapple family.

15Sep15 Australia Might Struggle to Repeat Their 2014 China Wakeboard Medals Haul At September’s YiHe Open / World Cup Stop

02Sep15 In Memoriam

Willy Stähle 1954-2015

My first memory of Willy Stähle, 1971 World and 1972 Olympic Trick champion, many times European champion dates back at 1968. We were both 14 years old competing at the same tournament in Belgium and she beat me in tricks with just a pass. Fond memories in the waterskiing world. Sometimes we even shared a room such as during the Europeans in South Africa. At the Worlds in London 1975 we even shared a spot in the tournament.We were second in slalom after the semifinals. This time I beat her.

It is with great sadness that I have heard about her passing. We stayed friends, long distance friends, after our skiing career ended. She quit long before me. After 1975 she got bored with waterskiing and picked up another sport:parachuting in which she again excelled.

It is during practice of this sport that a stupid incident happened to her. A photographer hit her during a flight for a photo shoot and she finished landing unconscious and therefore paralyzed at age 29

She was a beautiful and talented skier, but somehow she had a sad side. This bonded us. After her accident, life was hard for her and she picked up art. She became an artist.

The last years were not happy for her. Now she was looked after with love and kindness by her family and by two waterski friends Marlon Van Dyk and Shira Waage. They did a wonderful job but lately she did not even want to see them any more. I think she was tired. I hope that it is better for you now Willy.

We all will miss not only a great waterski champion but your wonderful smile and friendship.

Silvia Terracciano

02Sep15 France And Italy Take Waterski And Wakeboard Gold Medals At 1st Mediterranean Beach Games In Pescara

27Aug15 First Mediterranean Beach Games In Pescara Italy To Welcome Both Wakeboard And Waterski International Stars This Weekend

24Aug15 2015 European Championships in Paris

2- Belarus, 1-France, 3-Czech Republic

Opening Ceremony (from left to right): Daniel Guerin, Vice-President of the Conseil Départemental du Val de Marne, Thierry Braillard, French Minister of Sport, Patrice Martin, President FFSNW, Denis Masseglia, Président French Olympic Committee, Christian Rock, Secretary General of the Préfecture du Val de Marne, Kuno Ritschard, President IWWF

Saturday’s Final’s day was not what many expected ! In almost every event, the hot favorites did not take the coveted Gold Medal home this year. This created a very exciting event at the first class site at Parc Interdepartmental Des Sports on the outskirts of Paris. Congratulations to all the new Europe Africa Waterski champions !
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24Aug15 In Memoriam

Andy Mapple GBR O.B.E. 1962 - 2015

Our Sport was both greatly shocked and very saddened this weekend to hear of the sudden passing of Andy Mapple GBR at the young age of just 52 years. We especially offer our sincere condolences to his wife Deena and children Michael and Elyssa and to all his family and many friends who will feel this great loss today.

Born in Lancashire in England on November 3rd 1962, Andy started waterskiing at the tender age of 13. Although not immediately an enthusiast, he was quickly inspired by the great stars of the day. Off the water, some of his many special moments include his marriage in 1987 to one of the greatest Overall Waterskiers of her generation, Deena Brush, in 2002 receiving the O.B.E award from HRH Queen Elizabeth, and after his retirement in 2004, working on the design and manufacture of Slalom Skis and Tournament Boats with companies such as Nautique, and finally the creation of Mapple Skis, his life’s dream. As Andy stated at that time, his objective was to help build future Waterski champions at all levels. On the water, Andy’s extraordinary achievements are unparalleled. These include breaking the World Slalom Record eleven times, capturing the title of World Slalom Champion six times, becoming Slalom Champion of both the US Masters and Moomba Masters a total of fourteen times, US Open Slalom Champion 15 times and many others including World Cup Champion. In all, he won a total of 168 professional Slalom titles during his career. He was inducted into the International Hall of Fame in 2011.

Few in our Sport will ever receive the recognition and admiration won by Andy Mapple. He truly was a very special person on so many levels. May he rest in peace.

On behalf of the whole Waterski Family

Kuno Ritschard, IWWF President

09Aug15 Freddy Krueger USA flys 95.0m for a new Ski Fly record

The jump was part of the Mastercraft Throwdown event on Friday, August 7

02Aug15 Bulletin 2 is now available for the 2015 World Wakeboard Championships

Please find Bulletin 2 and the Intention to Enter Form for the 2015 World Wakeboard Championships. The Championships will take place in Cancun, Mexico from October 27 - 31.

Intent to Enter Form

23Jul15 2015 Pan Am Games final Results

2015 Pan Am Games Water Ski Championships Women Slalom

2015 Pan Am Games Water Ski Championships Men Slalom

2015 Pan Am Games Water Ski Championships Women Tricks

2015 Pan Am Games Water Ski Championships Men Tricks

2015 Pan Am Games Water Ski Championships Women Jump

2015 Pan Am Games Water Ski Championships Men Jump

Full Finals Results
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22Jul15 Overall and Wakeboard Medals awarded at Pan Am Games

2015 Pan Am Games Water Ski Championships Women Overall

GOLD - Whitney MCCLINTOCK CAN
SILVER - Regina Jaquess USA
BRONZE - Carolina CHAPOY MEX

2015 Pan Am Games Water Ski Championships Men Overall

GOLD - Filipe MIRANDA CHI
SILVER - Jaret LLEWELLYN CAN
BRONZE - Javier JULIO ARG

2015 Pan Am Games Wakeboard Championships Men

GOLD - Rusty MALINOSKI CAN
SILVER - Daniel POWERS USA
BRONZE - Juan MENDEZ VEN

Results and Pictures

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21Jul15 Pan Am Games Day 2 Results now available

21Jul15 Pan Am Games Preliminary Round Results for slalom and tricks are now available

06Jul15 U21 Water Ski Championships Podium Photos

06Jul15 IWWF World U21 Water Ski Championships

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Women Slalom

Taryn GRANT CAN
Samantha DUMALA USA
Chiara BONNEMANN GER

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Men Slalom

Dane MECHLER USA
Robert PIGOZZI DOM
Brando CARUSO ITA

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Women Tricks

Erika LANG USA
Giannina BONNEMANN GER
Neilly Ross CAN

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Men Tricks

Josh BRIANT AUS
Gianmarco PAJNI ITA
Tanguy DAILLAND FRA

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Women Jump

Hanna STRALTSOVA BLR
Taryn GRANT CAN
Aliaksandra DANISHEUSKAYA BLR

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Men Jump

Taylor GARCIA USA
Nicholas LANG USA
Kamil BORYSEWICZ POL

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Women Overall

Giannina BONNEMANN GER
Hanna STRALTSOVA BLR
Aliaksandra DANISHEUSKAYA BLR

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Men Overall

Josh BRIANT AUS
Tanguy DAILLAND FRA
Taylor GARCIA USA

2015 World U21 Water Ski Championships Team Overall

USA
Belarus
France

Full results at http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/15IWWF01/

02Jul15 IWWF U21 World Waterski Championships At Sesena Madrid Spain

This major biennial event is where we see the major stars of tomorrow hitting the headlines. They already include superstars ! With 88 athletes from 28 countries getting to bed early tonight, the perfect conditions at Sesena are certain to bring out the best in all tomorrow and at the weekend. Here is the Link for the LIVE start lists and scores :http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/15IWWF01

30Jun15 Wakeboard And The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games

Following Olympic Agenda 2020 announcements, new reforms agreed by the IOC for the Olympic Games published last December gave Games Organisers permission to propose one or more additional events to be included in the programme. All IOC recognized International Federations, including the IWWF, could make inclusion proposals. The new “events” based system replaced the limit of 28 sports of the past. This would greatly facilitate the addition of new events without the removal of entire sports.
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27Jun15 Officials appointed for Water Ski World Championships in Mexico

Chief Judge: Lisa Steiner USA
Assistant Chief Judge:Gattone Barbara ITA
Homologator:Talamo Nigel GBR
Chief Scorer: Muriel Fromiau FRA

Scorers:
Larry Downes USA
Angela Bailey CAN

Judges:
Nikki Lee USA
Felipe Leal COL
Jeff Smith USA
Edgardo Martin ARG
Robert Ritter CHL
Dupanloup Frederic SUI
Buzzotta Ilaria ITA
Wright Maureen MON
Bruce Cockburn AUS
Masako Yamaguhi JPN

Chief Driver:Gary Weidman AUS
Drivers:
Gordon West USA
Sonzogni Fabrizio ITA
Campbell Ian GBR

Alternate Drivers:
Gerry Whitaker CAN
Mike Ross NZL

17Jun15 European Games Baku 2015

Kuno and Des with the First Lady of Azerbaijan, Mehriban Aliyeva, Chair of the Organising Committee

IWWF President, Kuno Ritschard, and IWWF Marketing & Media Chairman, Des Burke-Kennedy, were invited by the President of the European Olympic Committee, Patrick Hickey, to attend the Opening Ceremony of the 1st European Games in Baku, Azerbaijan. While our sport is not yet part of these new multi-sport European Games, Patrick Hickey confirmed that Wakeboard is on the list of possible new events at the next Games in 2019. His invitation gave us an opportunity to experience what is involved in participating at this high level. Over 6,000 athletes took part in the Opening Ceremony which was attended by 68,000 spectators. Full details are available here : http://www.baku2015.com

Kuno and Des with EOC President Patrick Hickey

17Jun15 Formula One Driver Captures Medals At The 28Th SEA Games As They Conclude In Singapore's New National Stadium

2015 Tournament Water Ski Rules

17Jun15 2015 Tournament Water Ski Rules are now available

The 2015 Rules are the same as 2014 except that a clarification has been added to Rule 13.02: Description of the Jump Ramp

16Jun15 Bulletin 1 for the Water Ski World Championships is now available

U21 Individual Qualifiers

08Jun15 U21 World Water Ski Championships Individual Qualifier list is now available

04Jun15 IWWF Ranking List April 2015 is now available

May 2015 IWWF Rankings

01Jun15 IWWF President, Kuno Ritschard attends the Masters tournament in Pine Mountain, GA

Greg Meloon, the new President of NAUTIQUE together with his 98 year old grandfather Ralph Meloon and IWWF President Kuno Ritschard

President Ritschard met with representatives of Correct Craft/Nautique who are the major sponsors and organizers of the event.

31May15 2016 World Show Ski Tournament will take place at Red Sand Beach on Lake Wazeecha in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, USA.

The IWWF World Show Ski Committee announces with pleasure that the 2016 World Show Ski Tournament will take place at Red Sand Beach on Lake Wazeecha in Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, USA.

The Wisconsin Rapids Aqua Skiers ski club will host the third biennial event from September 9-11, 2016.

Attention: In attachment you will find a survey meant to help the host team, Wisconsin Rapids Aqua Skiers, plan this event. Federations interested in sending Teams to compete in the 2016 World Show Ski Tournament are requested to fill out the survey and return it directly to Maggie Muleski, Tournament Chair, at tntmd@wctc.net, .

If you have any questions, please contact Maggie at the e-mail address above or call her on (+1) 715-459-6117.

31May15 2015 Cableski Rules are now available

2015 Cableski Rulebook

25May15 The 56Th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament Makes History!!

Pine Mountain, GA (May 24, 2015) – The 56th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament®, presented by GM Marine Engine Technology,
made history today at Callaway Gardens! The wake community was beyond excited with the first ever-perfect 100-point run in the history of
wakeboarding. The history making run was behind the industry leading and award-winning Super Air Nautique G23!

In women's events, Team Nautique athlete and world record holder Erika Lang looked absolutely amazing on the water setting a new tricks course
record of 9,770 points to win her second consecutive Masters title.
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19May15 Massive Weekend Just Days Away - And Don't Miss The Live Webcast

Yes, its the Masters time once again and all eyes will be on the beautiful Callaway Gardens in the State of Georgia USA on this weekend of May 22/24. With the best Skiers and Riders in the world heading there right now, this is guaranteed to be a very special experience for all. Temperatures of around 30C / 86Fh are also predicted and so it will be HOT on all fronts. You can keep in touch throughout as follows :

The HASHTAGS are :
‪#‎masterswaterski‬, ‪#‎masterswakeboard‬, ‪#‎nautiquemasters‬ and ‪#‎GMmarine‬

If you can't be there, here is the next best thing - the LIVE WEBCAST :
www.masterswaterski.com
www.masterswakeboard.com
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17May15 Jacinta Carroll AUS reported has set a new pending jump record of 58.8 m

The 58.8m (193 ft) jump was at the Sunset Cup/Masters Last Chance Qualifier tournament at Sunset Lakes in Groveland, FL

05May15 2015 Disabled Rules and Handbook are now available

01May15 Fiji Hosts The Oceania National Olympic Committees (ONOC) General Assembly

Mr Thomas Bach, President of the IOC, IWWF President Kuno Ritschard and His Excellency the President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau of Fiji Island

Over 100 representatives from 17 nations attended this week’s ONOC General Assembly in Suva, Fiji. ONOC is one of five Continental Olympic bodies which represents the interests of members from the Pacific Region, including Australia and New Zealand.

IWWF President Kuno Ritschard and IWWF Oceania Confederation President Russell Morris met His Excellency the President Ratu Epeli Nailatikau of Fiji Island and Mr Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee.

At a time when the IOC is developing plans for its new rules relating to the much anticipated Olympic Programme for future Games, this will be a very important year for events such as Wakeboard with ambitions for inclusion.

29Apr15 Australia dominates IWWF Water Ski Racing World Championships once again

Bulletin 2
Hotel Booking Form
Declaration
Parent Declaration

27Apr15 Bulletin 2 for the 2015 World Under 21 Waterski Championships is now available

The Championships will take place in Toledo, Spain at the Seseña Waterski & Wakeboard Complex from 3 - 5 July, 2015.

20Apr15 New pending World Trick Record

Aliaksei Zharnasek BLR has set a new pending World Record in tricks of 12,740 points at the Isles of Lake Hancock Tournament in Florida.

20Apr15 International Hall Of Fame Congratulates Five New Inductees

The Chairman of the International Hall of Fame Committee, Des Burke- Kennedy, announced today the five new individuals who will be inducted at the special Award Ceremony in November. This will be held during the week of the Waterski World Championships in Chapala.

The quality of the submissions this year was one of the highest seen to date by our nine Selectors, Murray Eade AUS, Bruce Cockburn AUS, Glenn Thurlow AUS, Edgardo Martin ARG, Richard Gray CAN, Frank Harrison USA, Stefan Rauchenwald AUT, Chantal Amade Escot FRA and Juergen Pitz GER. The resulting selection is an extraordinary array of talented people who have made an enormous contribution to our sport on many levels over the years.

Congratulations to :
ATHLETES
Cory Pickos USA
Mike Kjellander SWE
Mike Seipel USA

OFFICIALS
Clint Ward CAN
Jeffry Armstrong USA

Full details of their outstanding achievements will be highlighted at the November Award Ceremony and also posted on our Website and Facebook Page. Details of the Ceremony will also be published in due course.

www.IWWFED.com
https://www.facebook.com/pages/IWWF-International-Hall-of-Fame/134306999971099?ref=hl

19Apr15 Waterski Racing World Championships concluded in New Zealand

Click here for full results from New Zealand

14Apr15 2015 Water Ski World Championships will be held in Mexico

The Mexican Waterski & Wakeboard Federation together with the Lamadrid Family has accepted to take over at short notice the organisation of the Waterski World Championships, the meetings of the Executive Board and the World Tournament Council, the World Congress and the Hall of Fame Ceremony.

The venue will be: Bocalaguna in Chapala near Guadalajara. The date is 16-22 November 2015. We all can expect a great event and I look forward to meet many of you there.

10Apr15 The IWWF announces with pleasure the 2017 World Waterski Racing Championships.

This action-packed event will take place in Seattle, Washington (USA) from July 21 - 30, 2017.

09Apr15 The IWWF announces with pleasure the 2016 World Cable Wakeboard World Championships.

The Championships will take place at the Acuaski Action Park in Xococotla, Morales, Mexico from 16 - 20 November, 2016.

09Apr15 The IWWF is pleased to announce that the 2016 World Barefoot Championships will take place at Blue Moo Lake in Alma Center, Wisconsin (USA).

The event will be held from 14 - 20 August, 2016.

08Apr15 Officials Panel appointed for World Water Ski U21 Championships

U21 World Championships
Chief Judge: Jeff Smith USA
Assistant Chief Judge: ALEXOPOULOS Dimos GRE
Chief Scorer: Galli Elisabetta ITA
Scorers: Lauma Cirulis AUS

Homologator: Peter Collins GBR

Judges:
Felipe Leal COL
Kerri Lee USA
Jennyfer Cadena COL
Persoons Marie Anne BEL
KUNERT Elena SVK
LILLEBERG Stian NOR
Kelly Gavin GBR

Chief Driver: Gandola Davide ITA
Drivers: Mario Pigossi DOM

alternate driver: Waldie Priekulis AUS
corrected 4/10/15

07Apr15 World Water Ski Racing Championships attracts nine world champions to Wellington, New Zealand

24Mar15 Bulletin 1 and the Intention to Enter Form for the 2015 World Wakeboard Championships are now available

The Championships will take place in Cancun, Mexico from October 27 - 31.

Click here to see the new rules

Intent to Enter Form

18Mar15 Executive Board approves new rules of eligibility

The new rules must be ratified at the next congress meeting.

16Mar15 Shock results at Mandurah Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup threatened by Cyclone Olwyn in Western Australia

13Mar15 Mandurah World Cup faces possible thunder storms and schedule changes in Western Australia this weekend

10Mar15 Melbourne's Moomba Masters breaks attendance records and course records in perfect weather conditions

07Mar15 Celebrating the 100th for Banana George

05Mar15 Nautique Moomba Masters 2015 - downtown Melbourne sets the perfect stage!

04Mar15 IMG Agrees Deal To Represent IWWF World Cup Series

27Feb15 Mandurah World Cup

This will be the 43rd World Cup Stop of the Series. Many of the athletes competing at Melbourne’s Moomba Masters will then travel over to Western Australia for #MandurahWorldCup and #ActionSportsGames. This year there will be three action packed zones at this pristine Indian Ocean coastal site - one for Waterski & Wakeboard, one for FMX and one for Skate/BMX. That’s why they call it the #ActionSportsGames ! Looking at the Waterski and Wakeboard entries, it is shaping up to be a fantastic USA v Australia showdown. However, that door is also wide open for surprises.
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27Feb15 Moomba Masters Webcast

Nancy Chardin waits her turn at Moomba

With over 200,000 spectators expected to return to Melbourne’s downtown Yarra River site on March 7/8/9, all can share in the fun on the Webcast :
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/2015-melbourne-moomba-masters?fb_action_ids=10152725727738511&fb_action_types=ustream_og:comment

This year’s line up is one of the greatest ever:

SLALOM: Chris Parrish USA, Nate Smith USA & Will Asher GBR / Whitney McClintock CAN, Karen Truelove USA & Emma Sheers AUS
TRICKS : Aliaksei Zharnasek BLR, Pierre Ballon FRA & Franck Desboyaux FRA / Erika Lang USA, Natallia Berdnikava BLR & Whitney McClintock CAN -
JUMP: Freddy Krueger USA, Ryan Dodd CAN & Bojan Schipner GER / Jacinta Carroll AUS, Natallia Berdnikava BLR & Jutta Lammi FIN.
WAKEBOARD: Harley Clifford AUS, Noah Flegel USA & Mike Dowdy USA / Courtney Angus AUS, Raimi Merritt USA & Bec Gange AUS.

For LIVE RESULTS, check this out :
http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/15AUS326/

20Feb15 Over 200,000 spectators set to watch Australia or USA dominate Melbourne's Moomba Masters March 4/9

17Feb15 Waterski & Wakeboard World Champions line up to open World Cup Series in Mandurah Western Australia March 14/15

Day 1 video presentation
Day 2 video presentation
Event web site
See the current results here

15Feb15 Pan American Wakeboard Championships in progress in Argentina

31Jan15 Panam Coaching Course In Mexico

A High Level Coaching Course was recently held between 26th- 30th January in Tequesquitengo, Morelos, Mexico in conjuction with the Mexico Olympic Committee and organised by the Pan American Sports Organisation.

Covering both 3 events Waterski and wakeboard disciplines, the lecturers were Jean- Michel Cau, Chairman of IWWF Coaching and Development Committee and Teky de Palpma (Argentina).

The courses were attended by representatives from the following countries : Columbia,Equador, Guatamala,Haiti, Venezuela and Mexico.

29Jan15 IWWF seeks Executive Officer to start in 2016

Click here to see job information posting

28Jan15 U21 World Water Ski Championships bulletin 1 is now available.

CLick here for bulletin #1

19Jan15 IWWF Executive Board names the IWWF Athletes of the Year

IWWF Female and Male Athletes of the Year

Ashleigh Stebbeings AUS

Alexander Vasko SVK

17Jan15 Aktion Parks Announces The Grand Opening Of Miami Watersports Complex

ORLANDO, FL (January 16, 2015) — Aktion Parks, a subsidiary of Correct Craft and sister company to Nautique Boats, partnered with the Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation & Open Spaces Department to announce the grand opening of South Florida’s premier watersports park, the Miami Watersports Complex (MWC) on March 27th – March 28th, 2015.

In conjunction with the grand opening MWC will host the first stop of the Monster Energy WWA Wake Park Triple Crown, a three-stop cable wakeboard series where riders will compete for individual titles as well as the Wake Park Triple Crown overall series championship.

Miami Watersports Complex is located at Amelia Earhart Park located in Northwest Miami at 401 E. 65th Street and is situated on a 90-acre fresh water lake equipped with two full-size cables and one two tower cable. The park also offers boat lessons behind the award-winning Super Air Nautique G23.

“The Aktion Parks team is excited to kick off the cable event season with the grand opening of Miami Watersports Complex,” stated Correct Craft President/CEO Bill Yeargin. “Our team has worked incredibly hard to open Aktion’s second park which will be one of the world’s premier watersports facilities,” Yeargin added.

Amelia Earhart Park also offers park users rugged mountain-bike trails with mountain bikes available for rent. In addition, the park features the renowned Soccer 5 mini-soccer complex providing a revolutionary small-sided game on enclosed 4G turf fields with bounce-back boards.

11Jan15 World Junior Waterski Championships Results

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Girls Slalom

Samantha DUMALA USA
Brooke Baldwin USA
Geneva ROACH CAN

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Boys Slalom

Robert PIGOZZI DOM
Jakob BOGNE SWE
Benjamin LE BOZEC FRA

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Girls Jump

Aliaksandra DANISHEUSKAYA BLR
Lisa ORLITSCH AUT
Valentina GONZALEZ CHI

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Boys Jump

Taylor GARCIA USA
Joshua WALLENT AUS
Felix BLOMQVIST SWE

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Girls Overall

Brooke Baldwin USA
Aliaksandra DANISHEUSKAYA BLR
Alice BAGNOLI ITA

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Boys Overall

Taylor GARCIA USA
Nicholas LANG USA
Joel POLAND GBR

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Team Overall

USA
Canada
France

Full results at http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/14IWWF005/

11Jan15 World Junior Waterski Championships Trick Champions crowned in Peru

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Women Tricks

Anna Gay USA
Neilly Ross CAN
Brooke Baldwin USA

2014 World Junior Water Ski Championships Men Tricks

Danylo Fil'chenko UKR
Patricio Font MEX
Lindsay Bordier FRA

The championships conclude today.

11Jan15 In Memoriam

John Hoiles GBR 1932 - 2015

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of John Hoiles (Great Britain) on 6th January 2015 at the age of 82 years. John was diagnosed with Leukaemia in mid-December and following a very short illness he passed away peacefully. Our thoughts go out to his family, his wife Mary and their sons Philip and Tim and their families.

The photo shows at a recent photo at his local golf club - his passion for golf existed for a long time.

Prior to his waterskiing career John had been heavily involved in Powerboat Racing too, being part of the team who won the famous Cowes-Torquay-Cowes Race aboard "I Like It Too" in 1976.

John was one of the driving forces behind the development of Waterski Racing being involved at first in Great Britain and then internationally. He was the first Chairman of the European Racing Commission formed in 1975 and went on to become the first Chairman of the World Racing Council formed in 1978. This led to the first World Waterski Racing Championships being held in Great Britain in 1979 - with races on the sea at Whitstable (John's home town), on the river Thames estuary at Allhallows in Kent and on a lake in London, the Welsh Harp.

John was a larger than life character and always a true enthusiast for the sport. He lived life to the full and was a huge amount of fun to be with - and those memories will live on for ever for me. I was privileged to work with him on the British Racing Committee and at European and World level assisting in the organisation of an assortment of racing events and the administration of the sport generally. Characters like John Hoiles make a big impression on one's life, and I was proud and honoured to be his friend.

In recognition of his long service to the sport of waterskiing, John was made an Honorary Member of the Europe & Africa Confederation in 1990.

Rest in Peace John, alongside many other of your friends in waterskiing.

Gillian Hill
January 2015

05Jan15 Judges Panel appointed for the Disabled Worlds which will take place September 21 - 27 in Elk Grove, CA, USA

03Jan15 International Hall Of Fame 2015
Only 29 Days Left For Your Nominations

Please don't miss the deadline for the submission of Nominations of January 31st !
The Nomination process is very simple. All you have to do is complete the ONLINE Form for any of the following - ATHLETE - OFFICIAL - PIONEER.
The Nomination Forms explain it all and can be accessed here :
http://www.iwsf.com/halloffame/IWWFHallofFame.htm

23Dec14 IWWF Councils select Division Athletes of the Year

The IWWF Executive board will select the IWWF Athletes of the Year from the Councils' selections

16Dec14 2015 Pan American Wakeboard Championships to be held in Argentina, February 12-15

Bulletin 1 is now available here

15Dec14 FISU Sets September 15, 2015 Deadline for Bids on the 2018 World University Water Ski Championships.

Although we are still almost 2 years away from the 2016 event, which will be held in Ogata Village near Akita Japan, deadline for bids on the 2018 event is rapidly approaching.

As we painfully learned the last bid cycle, this is a firm date and no bids will be accepted after that date.

If your Federation is interested in exploring the possibilities of hosting this prestigious event, please contact World University Commission Chairman, Phil Chase at philchase@sbcglobal.net.

13Dec14 Correct Craft opens Miami Watersports Complex

Nautique employees with Governor

FLORIDA GOVERNOR VISITS CORRECT CRAFT!

Team celebrates Florida “Manufacturer of the Year” designation; makes key announcements

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10Dec14 International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation welcomes Olympic Agenda 2020 with approval of recommendation to add new events to the Games

Bulletin #3
Practice Times chart

07Dec14 2014 Preliminary Water Ski Ranking List is now available

2014 Ranking List

24Nov14 Asian Beach Games Concludes With Team Medal Awards And Fireworks

Asian Beach Games closing ceremony

It has been an outstanding week in Phuket Thailand for IWWF Riders and Skiers at the Asian Beach Games. Over 2,500 athletes took part. With a unique combination of Boat Wakeboard pulled by Nautique, Cable Wakeboard, Waterski Slalom and Tricks, this was a very special week for the development of our sport throughout Asia.

The Thailand National Olympic Committee President, Gen. Yathasak Sasiprapa, was the guest of honor for the Wakeboard and Slalom Finals. He was joined by IWWF President Kuno Ritschard, IWWF Asia President Paul Fong, IWWF VP Thomas Lin and IWWF Treasurer Chris Howarth.

The Republic of Korea succeeded in capturing Team Gold Medals in both Wakeboard and Waterski – and also in individual Cable Wakeboard. China also had an outstanding Games with Gold Medals in both Women’s and Men’s Tricks, Women’s Boat Wakeboard and Women’s Cable Wakeboard.
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17Nov14 Asian Beach Games Men’s Cable Wakeboard

World Cup Star San Im of Korea takes the Gold Medal in Men’s Cable Wakeboard

17Nov14 Asian Beach Games Women’s Cable Wakeboard

China’s World Cup Star Duan Zhenkun takes the Gold Medal in Women’s Cable Wakeboard

17Nov14 China & Korea Take Early Gold Medals at 4th Asian Beach Games In Phuket, Thailand 2014

Over 2,500 athletes participate in the 2014 Asian Beach Games

Over 2,500 of Asia’s best athletes converged on Phuket, Thailand for the start of the 4th Asian Beach Games. Running from November 14th to the 23rd, the event involves some 45 countries participating in a total of 26 sports.

Waterskiing has been included in two of the past three games in Muscat, Oman in 2010 and Haiyang, China, in 2012. The programme has expanded considerably this year with the inclusion of slalom and tricks, wakeboard and cable wakeboard and cable wakeskate - along with team events in the three disciplines. The individual medal competitions for men and women in cable wakeboard and cable wakeskate started on Sunday, November 16th, with four out of a total of 13 medals being presented at the end of the day.
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14Nov14 World Junior Championships Bulletin #3 is now available

30Oct14 Chile Night Jump poster released

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20Oct14 The Cableski World Council Meeting Minutes are now available.

Click here for the minutes.

20Oct14 Correct Craft Acquires Two Engine Companies
PCM Marine Engines And Crusader Engines

Chuck Thurman, Bill Yeargin, and Paul Fletcher

ORLANDO, FL (October 20, 2014) Today Correct Craft announced it has acquired the companies who manufacture both PCM Marine Engines and Crusader Engines. The acquisition became effective on October, 16, 2014.

Correct Craft, the owner of both Nautique Boat Company and Aktion Parks, now owns 100% of both PCM Marine Engines and Crusader Engines. Correct Craft announced it has no plans to change either the management or the location of the engine companies.

PCM, manufacturer of the world’s best engines, has been in business for nearly forty years providing outstanding engines and service all over the world from its headquarters in Little Mountain, South Carolina. PCM is known for premier product, unsurpassed quality, leading innovation and exceptional service.

Crusader Engines, also manufactured in Little Mountain, South Carolina, is highly regarded as a premier manufacturer of engines used in salt water. This past year Crusader expanded their product offering with its outstanding new “Challenger” series of inboard towsport engines.

17Oct14 Starting in 2016, NAUTIQUE will be the Official IWWF Waterski Towboat

Top skiers and friends of NAUTIQUE came yesterday to the NAUTIQUE Headquarters to celebrate the signing of the Official Towboat Agreement between Bill Yeargin, President and CEO and IWWF President Kuno Ritschard.

13Oct14 Records are shattered at World 35+ Championships

New records were set in every event and every division at the World 35+ Water Ski Championships. A total of 55 new records were set during the course of the tournament. Perfect weather and perfect conditions set the stage for the records to fall.

See all records at http://www.iwsf.com/history/displayrecords.php and scroll down to the 35+ section.

12Oct14 Final Medals Awarded at World 35+ Water Ski Championships

12Oct14 World 35+ Water Ski Championships Team Overall has been determined

Team Overall is based on the preliminary round results only.

2014 World 35+ Water Ski Championships Team Overall

USA
Great Britain
Canada

11Oct14 Champions crowned at World 35+ Water Ski Championships

Click here for live results

08Oct14 World 35+ Water Ski Championships are under way in Florida

06Oct14 World records tumble in history making Shanghai Cableski World Cup Stop in Bihai Jinsha Water Park

02Oct14 World Junior Water Ski Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

01Oct14 New World Champions to make history at Cable Waterski World Cup Stop in Shanghai this coming weekend

Bulletin 1
Intent to Enter Form

23Sep14 Bulletin 1 and the Intention to Enter Form for the 2015 World Waterski Racing Championships

The Championships will take place in Wellington, New Zealand from April 9 - 19.

22Sep14 USA and Australia take gold medals in Wakeboard World Cup Stop at China's spectacular Linyi City Riverside Stadium

17Sep14 Wakeboard World Cup Series returns to spectacular Linyi China venue set for very strong Australian challenge

16Sep14 Team USA takes gold in style at World Tournament ahead of Australia and Canada at RAJ Stadium in Wisconsin

08Sep14 World Water Ski Show Tournament – The Greatest Photo Opportunity Of The Year!

World 35+ Championships Bulletin 2

08Sep14 World 35+ Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

01Sep14 IOC Board Member Meets Sports Minister At Hamburg’s Wake Masters

Patrick Hickey IOC, Sanne Meijer NED Open Women Champion, Miles Toller GER Open Men Champion, Sports Minister Michael Neumann and Kuno Ritschard IWWF.

With and estimated 1.1 million visitors at the annual Festival in Hamburg Germany this weekend, it was also coordinated with the third stop of Germany's Wake Masters at the downtown Binnenalster site. The IWWF also introduced Hamburg’s Sports Minister Michael Neumann to Patrick Hickey, President of Ireland’s Olympic Council, IOC Main Board Member and the person responsible for the new 2015 European Games. This exposure of top class Cable Wakeboard certainly helped to raise its international profile. Hamburg has also declared an interested in hosting a future Olympic Games and this is strongly supported by Minister Neumann.

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26Aug14 Preliminary Schedule Released for World 35+ Championships

With nearly 400 skiers registering an Intent to Enter, the World 35+ Championships scheduled for October 8-12 at Sunset Lakes in Florida, USA will be the largest water ski World Championships ever held.
The initial schedule is being released today. The schedule is based on projected entrants in each event.
World 35+ Championships Schedule

22Aug14 2015 Waterski World cup stop in Putrajaya confirmed

From l.t.r. Hanifah Yoong, Organiser, IWWF President Kuno Ritschard, Tan Sri Dato Seri Aseh Bin Che Mat, President of Putrajaya, Dato Rosle Jaamat, Managing Director of WARISAN Marketing

At a recent meeting with Y.Bhg. Tan Sri Dato Seri Aseh Bin Che Mat, President of PERBADANAN PUTRAJAYA the date for the 2015 Waterski World Cup stop has been confirmed from 9-11 October. The disciplines will be Slalom, Shortboard and Jump.

19Aug14 Netherlands, Israel, Germany and Slovakia take gold medals at the 2014 Cable Wakeboard World Championships in Norway

Bulletin 2- Cableski Worlds-2014
Entry Form World Cableski Championships 2014
Declaration, Waiver and Release form - Cableski

16Aug14 2014 World Junior Waterski Championships Bulletin 1 is now available.

The Championships will be held in Lima, Peru from January 8 - 11, 2015.
Bulletin 1 Junior Worlds Peru

16Aug14 2014 World Cableski Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

12Aug14 Cable Wakeboard World Championships in Norway attracts world’s top riders from 29 nations this week

07Aug14 2015 IWWF Ski Race Rules are now available

IWWF 2015 Race Rules

07Aug14 Bulletin 3 for the 2014 World Show Ski Tournament is now available

Bulletin 3
Declaration of Parent Guardian
Release Form

30Jul14 Germany, Netherlands & Australia Take Medals At Bank Of Beijing Wakeboard World Cup Stop At Shunyi Olympic Park

2014 Ski Show Competition Rules

28Jul14 2014 IWWF Ski Show Competition Rules are now available

22Jul14 Bank Of Beijing Sponsors Major Wakeboard World Cup Stop At The City's Shunyi Olympic Rowing & Canoeing Park This Coming Weekend

16Jul14 Additional Officials appointed to World 35+ Championships

The tournament will be held on two lakes requiring additional officials.
Also the two Pan Am judges and homologator in the original panel have been selected as well.

Homologator: Gene Davis USA
Judges:
Jenyfer Cadena COL
Richelle Matli USA
Larry Downes USA
Mike Hayes USA
LION Francine FRA

Driver:
Russ Dickson CAN

16Jul14 Officials for the 2014 World Junior Championships to be held in Lima, Peru January 8-11, 2015 have been named.

Updated 23Nov14
Chief Judge: Mike Wrenn AUS
Assistant Chief Judge: Nikki Lee USA
Homologator: Jose Antonio Priego Perez MEX
Chief Scorer: Langrock Ulf GER

Scorer:
Diego Restropo COL

Judges:
Felipe Leal COL
Jorge Renosto ARG
Keith Lindemueler USA
Angelic Cifuentes COL
Zdenek Kolman CZE
Kelly Gavin GBR
LION Francine FRA
Masako Yamaguchi JAP

Chief Driver: Lyman Hardy USA
Drivers:
Gandola Davide ITA
Wilfred Huaman PER

14Jul14 Can Germany Make It A Second World Cup Victory In July?

Click here for Bulletin 1

13Jul14 New Zealand Wakeboard Rider Brad Smeele Suffers Very Serious Injury

Brad Smeele

At 11.00am last Sunday morning while training in Florida, two-time world Junior Wakeboard Champion Brad Smeele 27 crashed and shattered his C4 neck vertebrae. Following over eight hours of emergency surgery this week the prognosis at this early stage is that he may suffer serious long term paralysis. Riders and those in our sport around the world have rallied to help in fundraising as the costs of transport home, surgery and aftercare are enormous. All wishing to help Brad Smeele and his family at this time are urged to make a donation, however large or small, to the Brad Smeele Foundation - Link below.

Brad Smeele’s mother, joined by her son Alex, has flown from New Zealand to be with her son. The estimated cost of just bringing Brad home to Auckland is $200,000, even before his long term medical care begins.

Details as reported in The New Zealand Herald
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11292264

Fundraising / PayPal details on BRAD SMEELE FOUNDATION
http://www.bradsmeelefoundation.com

09Jul14 2014 World Cableski Championships Bulletin 1 is now available

Click here for the Intent to Enter Form

03Jul14 Tournament Council approves Regina Jaquess new slalom World Record of 3.25@10.25m

Her performance was at Cedar Ridge Lake, Canton, MS on June 7.

24Jun14 In Memoriam

Gisela Rixen GER 1935 - 2014

We are very sad to announce the death of Gisela Rixen.
The IWWF Cable and Cable Wakeboard family grieves with Bruno Rixen and would like express deepest condolences. Gisela and Bruno lived the dream of a cableway for waterskiing and she always fully supported her husband in everything he did. She was known and respected within the Waterski & Wakeboard scenes for her commitment to the company. Gisela Rixen died at the age of 79, but will live in our hearts forever.

17Jun14 World Waterski Racing Championships 2015 Are Heading For New Zealand’S Capital City Of Wellington

Warren's entry in the AWSEF Hall of Fame

16Jun14 Tournament Council approves Erika Lang's trick performances of 10,360 and 10,460 points as new World Records

The performances were at the Crystal Point Record tournament in Gilbert, AZ

13Jun14 Regina Jaquess USA sets new pending slalom record at Cedar Ridge Ski Lake on June 7

Regina was scored at 3.5 at 10.25m line and the IWWF Tournament Council has received her record application.

01Jun14 Preliminary World Water Ski Rankings are now available

Click here for rankings

This is the start of the 30 day review period.

30May14 Bulletin 2 for the 2014 World Show Ski Tournament is now available

2014 WWSST Bulletin 2

29May14 In Memoriam

Warren Witherell (USA) 1935 - 2014

Warren Witherell was the first skier to jump 100 feet and is in both the US Waterski Hall of Fame and the US Snow Ski Hall of Fame

25May14 A New Trick Record and Four New Masters Champions Completes the 55th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament

Pine Mountain, GA (May 25, 2014) – Massive crowds lined the shore today as the 55th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament® at Callaway Gardens concluded with four new Masters Champions including Women’s Trick champion Erika Lang, Men’s Trick champion Pierre Ballon, Men’s Slalom champion Thomas Degasperi, and Wakeskate champion Danny Hampson plus a new course record in Women’s Trick pulled by the Ski Nautique 200.
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21May14 Officials for the 2014 World Over 35 Waterski Championships to be held in Groveland, Florida from October 8 - 12 have been appointed

Chief Judge: Paolo Barbieri ITA
Assistant Chief Judge: Lisa Steiner USA
Homologator: TBA
Chief Scorer: Diego Restrepo COL

Scorers:
Sergey Selivanov BLR
Jeff Clark USA

Judges:
Felipe Leal COL
Steve Gosse CAN
Dan Van Dyk USA
Inessa Potess BLR
Morten Frouland DEN
Vincenzo D'Elia ITA
Jimmie Påhlsson SWE
Anders Johannson SWE
TBA from PanAm
TBA from PanAm

Chief Driver: Glen Martin AUS
Drivers:
Ian Campbell GBR
Gordon West USA

15May14 Irish Federation Makes Contact With Their National Olympic Committee

IWWF Marketing & Media Chairman, Des Burke-Kennedy, was received this week in Dublin, Ireland, by Patrick Hickey, IOC Executive Board Member, President of the Irish Olympic Council, and President of the European Olympic Committees. He is also spearheading the first European Games scheduled for 2015 in Baku, Azerbaijan. The global boom in Cable Wakeboard was discussed and also the IWWF offer of help and support in the selection of new Sports for Olympic inclusion in the future.

All IWWF Federations are encouraged to urgently make contact with their own Olympic Committees, if they have not already done so, as this is important for the future development of our Sport. We wish Patrick Hickey, holder of a Judo Black Belt, and all in the IOC every success with the new 2015 European Games and look forward to seeing Wakeboard on that stage in the not too distant future.

13May14 The 2014 Disabled Rules are now available

2014 IWWF Disabled Rules

13May14 IWWF Tournament Council approves World Record Jump by Freddy Krueger USA as 76.2m (250 ft)

12May14 Erika Lang USA sets two pending trick records of 10,360 and 10,460 points

The performances were at the Crystal Point Record tournament in Gilbert, AZ.

11May14 Cuba – host of the 1st Panamerican Cable Wakeboard Championships

Uwe Goldstein, Chairman of the IWWF Cable Development Committee signs together with the President of Cubadeportes, Dr. Pedro Urquia Montano the Letter of Intention that Cuba will organise the 1st Panamerican Cable Wakeboard Championships in October 2015.

01May14 Freddy Krueger USA jumps 76.3m (250 ft) for a new pending World Record

The jump was at the Lake Hancock Jump Jam.

27Apr14 Asian Coaching and Judging Development Seminar held

Asian Coaching Seminar 2014

The Asian Coaching and Judging Development seminar took place in Putrajaya, Malaysia april 24th/26th.

Superbly organized by Malaysian federation and Hanifah Yoong, 41 participants from 6 different countries attended this seminar in the presence of Kuno Ritschard, IWWF President and Paul Fong, Asian Confederation President.

Lecturers were Maureen Wright for the judging section and Jean-Michel Cau for the coaching section ».

Jean-Michel CAU
IWWF Coaching & Development Committee
Chairman

26Apr14 Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup in Langkawi

IWWF President Kuno Ritschard meets Tan Sri Dato’ Sri Khalid Bin Ramli, the CEO of the Langkawi Development Authority to discuss a Waterski & World Cup Stop on the Malaysian Island Langkawi during the Water Festival in May 2016.

18Apr14 Pan American Championships are in progress in Bogota, Colombia

Erika Lang USA and Adam Pickos USA capture the gold medals in the Open Tricks event.

For complete results up to this point in all divisions go to
http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/14COL03/

16Apr14 In Memoriam

Don Llewellyn (CAN) 1950 - 2014

Following recent heart surgery, Donald Lewis Llewellyn sadly passed away earlier this week and we offer our condolences to his entire family and many friends around the world. Known internationally for his exceptional life-long dedication to the sport of Waterskiing and in particular to Three Event Competition, he was the father of two of the most talented athletes in the history of Waterskiing, Jaret and Kreg. His innovating role in Canada where he was involved with the National Team for over 10 years was admired by many and in particular in the area of coaching. The fruits of his enormous contribution can be clearly seen in both his achievements and those of his sons and National and International level.

Des Burke-Kennedy

more at https://www.facebook.com/des.burkekennedy

04Apr14 World 35+ Championship rules have been finalized and are now available

Click here for Word 35+ Rules

04Apr14 2014 World Junior Championships to be held in Peru

Following the cancellation of the 2014 World Junior Waterski Championships in the Ukraine, the Peru Waterski Federation has agreed to host and organise the Championships at Lake Bujama near Lima. See http://www.alltravels.com/peru/lima/san-antonio/photos/current-photo-40762601

The date will be 8-11 January 2015.

26Mar14 Overall Champions crowned at World Barefoot Championships in Mulwala, Australia

David Small (GBR) and Ashleigh Stebbeings (AUS) defend their overall titles and get crowned World Champions once again! David Small tied the world trick record twice and posted a personal best in slalom on his route to another overall title. Ashleigh Stebbeings set a new woman's World Record in tricks of 10,100 pts, a new World Record in jump of 21.7M and tied the World Record in slalom with 17.0 to take the woman's overall with a perfect score of 3000pts.

After a disappointing first round of tricks that left him out of the semi finals and sealed his fate in the overall Keith St. Onge (USA) regrouped his energy to win the slalom title early in the day of the finals then ended the tournament with a huge win in the jump event. Keith's 26.6M jump bested the rest of the field including David Small who has held the world jump title for 12 straight years - since 2002. This was Keith's first world title in the jump event making him one of only four men in history to hold a gold medal in every event and overall. Keith joins the legends of the sport, Brett Wing (AUS), Mike Seiple (USA) and Ron Scarpa (USA) with this historic achievement.

Results of the event can be found at: http://bfoot.keane.co.nz/index.php?cmd=tournamentresult_view&tournament_id=17

21Mar14 World Junior Championships in Ukraine cancelled

It is with great regret that we announce that the Ukrainian Federation has cancelled their hosting of the 2014 World Junior Championships due to take place in Dnepropetrovsk In August.

The organisers had hoped that the situation would calm down well before the Championships were due to take place.

Unfortunately this is not the case, and with the political situation as it is, it was better to take the decision now rather than wait any longer.

This is a great shame for the organisers, the IWWF and the skiers involved, as we are convinced this would have been a very good venue.

The IWWF President is already in negotiation with another organiser and as soon as the venue and dates are finalised all Federations will be notified immediately.

Our thoughts are with our Ukrainian friends at this difficult time.

17Mar14 First 2014 World Cup Stop attracts 120,000 spectators to Western Australia's Mandurah Action Sports Games

See the full results by clicking here

16Mar14 The winners at the Manderah World Cup are - Freddy Krueger USA and Jacinta Carroll AUS

Freddy Krueger jumps 65.9m

Jacinta Carroll has a perfect landing on her 3rd jump

Both Jacinta Carroll and Freddy Kruger apparently were following the same script in today's jump Finals at the Mandurah World Cup. Each skier was the top seed and last out on the water. Each skier after two jumps had not even achieved a score that would put them on the podium.
Jacinta Carroll set up her third jump and soared 51.1m for the longest jump of the women's competition and snatching 1st place from World Record holder Natallia Berdnikava BLR and leaving Jutta Lami FIN at 3rd.
Similarly, Freddy Krueger dug in and just bested the competition with a 65.9m effort. Left behind were Bojan Schipner GER at 65.3 m and Igor Morozov RUS at 65.0m - a very close finish.

15Mar14 Freddy Kruger USA and Jacinta Carroll AUS lead the Mandurah World Cup after the preliminary round.


Jacinta Carroll	Freddy Krueger

Jacinta Carroll jumped 49.0m to lead the preliminaries while Freddy Krueger outpaced the field with a 63.8m effort.

15Mar14 Major webcast and social media focus for World Cup series in Mandurah's Action Sports Games March 15/16

11Mar14 Over 200,000 spectators attend Melbourne's annual Moomba Masters this year as waterski and wakeboard popularity soars

click here for 2014 Tournament Rules

08Mar14 2014 Tournament Water Ski Rules are now available

08Mar14 World 35+ Championships Bulletin #1 is now available

Click here for Bulletin #1

04Mar14 Asian Coaches and Judges Development Seminar to be held

The Asian Coaches and Judges Development Seminar will be held 24 -27th of April in Putrajaya, Malaysia. Click here for Information and Registration Bulletin

27Feb14 2014 World Barefoot Championships Bulletin 3 is now available

26Feb14 Following the great Sochi Winter Olympics - it's time for the Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup to come to town!

19Feb14 Australia could dominate World Cup Mandurah March 15/16

Click here for World Juniors Bulletin #1

19Feb14 Angeliki Andriopoulou GRE has been elected as Chairman of the Athletes Advisory Council

The AAC consists of athletes representing their disciplines to bring the athletes concerns to their discipline Councils and represent the athletes on the IWWF Executive Board.

The entire council is as follows:

Chairman: Angeliki Andriopoulou (GRE)

IWWF Executive Board AC Voting Members:
Stuart Marston (GBR) and Ageliki Andriopoulou (GRE)

Ageliki Andriopoulou (GRE) - E&A Tournament
Aaron Larkin (NZ) - AAO Tournament
Esteban Siegert (COL) - PA Tournament

Toon van der Ploeg - Disabled
Stewart Mackie - Wakeboard
Stuart Marston (GBR) - Cable
Ben Groen (NZL)- Barefoot
Cameron King (USA) - Racing
Daniel Fetz (AUT) - Cable Wakeboard

18Feb14 2014 World Water Ski Junior Championships Bulletin #1 is now available

17Feb14 Melbourne's annual Moomba Masters set for an even darker spectacular downtown weekend March 5/10

04Feb14 Spectacular USA Australia showdown to launch 2014 season on the water

Regina Jaquess USA
Nate Smith USA

27Jan14 IWWF Europe Africa Congress Attracts 30 Federations to Milan Italy

MILAN CONGRESS 2014

With 33 Europe Federations and 4 Africa Federations in the current Europe Africa region, the attendance of over 100 Delegates and supporters this past weekend was excellent. In addition to the current President, Alain Amade FRA, past presidents in attendance included Aubrey Sheena GBR, Kuno Ritschard SUI and Franz Kuhn AUT. Staged at the EXPO 2015 site on the outskirts of Milan and currently under construction, all were welcomed to the Congress by Michele Dell ‘Olio, President of FISW, the Italian Federation. The organization by the FISW was excellent and included an evening tour of the historic sites of the City and visits to the Duomo di Milano and La Scala

With approximately 650 Officials in this territory, of particular interest this year were the Council Elections. Newly elected members included Martin Graw GER (Cableski), Jonas Garcia ESP (Racing), Nigel Talamo GBR (Tournament), Sergio Malu ITA (Wakeboard Cable) and Simone Sivieri ESP (Wakeboard Cable).

The extensive Titled Events Calendar was also approved, including the 2015 Waterski World Championships details which will return once again to Italy’s Idroscalo venue on September 7-13th next year. The full Calendar will be published shortly.

Detailed Minutes will be published in due course. The 2015 Congress will be held in Toulouse FRA on January 31st.

22Jan14 IWWF President Kuno Ritschard visits Putrajaya, Malaysia

The President of IWWF, Kuno Ritschard paid a courtesy visit to the President of Putrajaya, YBhg. Tan Sri Dato' Seri Dr. Aseh Bin Haji Che Mat this morning to discuss future WATERSKI & WAKEBOARD WORLD CUP CUP in Putrajaya.

19Jan14 Tournament Council Meeting Minutes are now available

See the minutes from the TC meeting in Santiago, Chile by clicking here
updated 1/29/2014

13Jan14 The IWWF Athletes of the Year are Regina Jaquess USA and Nate Smith USA

The IWWF Executive board has selected the IWWF Athletes of the Year

08Jan14 World Champion and Water Skier of the Year Regina Jaquess USA has been selected as one of ten candidates for the honor of the International World Games Athlete of the Year

The winner will be selected by a poll on the World Games web site.
Click here to vote for Regina as the IWGA Athlete of the Year

Attention - please note that each person can cast one vote per day until the closing of the poll on January 31.

30Dec13 IWWF Divisional Councils name top athletes for the year

The IWWF Executive board will select the Athletes of the Year from the Councils' selections

Female and Male Barefoot Skiers of the Year

Ashleigh Stebbeings AUS

Kenneth Derry AUS

Female and Male Cable Skiers of the Year

Irina Dimont BLR

Simon Herrmann GER

Female and Male Disabled Skiers of the Year

Claire Ellis GBR

Pietro De Maria ITA

Female and Male Racing Skiers of the Year

Trudi Stout AUS

Wayne Mawer AUS

Female and Male Tournament Water Skiers of the Year

Regina Jaquess USA

Nate Smith USA

Female and Male Cable Wakeboard Riders of the Year

Julia Rick GER

Frederic von Osten GER

Female and Male Wakeboard Boat Riders of the Year

Raimi Merrit USA

Harley Clifford AUS

16Dec13 Preliminary 2013 Water Ski Rankings are now available

Click here for Rankings

15Dec13 2014 World Barefoot Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

Bulletin 2
Entry Form Cover Page
Entry Form

04Dec13 Records Tumble As USA, Canada And France Dominate Team Awards In Thrilling 2013 Waterski World Championships In Santiago, Chile

01Dec13 World Championships conclude in Chile

2013 World Water Ski Championships Women's Jump

Jacinta Carroll AUS
Jutta Lammi FIN
Natallia Berdnikava BLR

2013 World Water Ski Championships Men's Jump

Freddy Krueger USA
Ryan Dodd CAN
Bojan Schipner GER

2013 World Water Ski Championships Women's Overall

Regina Jaquess USA
Whitney Mcclintock CAN
Clementine Lucine FRA

2013 World Water Ski Championships Men's Overall

Felipe Miranda CHI
Javier Julio ARG
Martin Kolman CZE

2013 World Water Ski Championships Team Overall

USA 8248.66
Canada 7762.91
France 7759.43

30Nov13 World Champions named in Chile

2013 World Water Ski Championships Men's Slalom

Nate Smith USA
William Asher GBR
Fred Winter GBR

2013 World Water Ski Championships Women's Slalom

Regina Jaquess USA
Whitney Mcclintock CAN
Clementine Lucine FRA

2013 World Water Ski Championships Men's Tricks

Aliaksei Zharnasek BLR
Pierre Ballon FRA
Oleg Deviatovski BLR

2013 World Water Ski Championships Women's Tricks

Erika Lang USA
Iris Cambray FRA
Clementine Lucine FRA

29Nov13 IWWF signs four year agreement with Rixen

Kuno Ritschard and Uwe Goldstein

The IWWF has signed a four year agreement with Rixen to be the Federation's Official Cableway Partner. The enormous growth of new Cable venues around the world creates a major opportunity for the IWWF to expand membership and participation levels as never before and the RIXEN AGREEMENT will help to support and guide this opportunity over the coming years. The contract was signed today in Santiago Chile by Uwe Goldstein of RIXEN and Kuno Ritschard, IWWF President who was reelected for his fourth four year term.

28Nov13 Kuno Ritschard SUI re-elected as IWWF President
Gill Hill GBR re-elected as Secretary General
Chris Howarth HGK re-elected as Treasurer

35 voting countries attended the IWWF Congress in Santiago, Chile and re-elected the current slate of officers.

28Nov13 IWWF Tournament Council Meeting completed

Several highlights: Nate Smith 2.5@9.75 approved as the new World Record Reverse Front Flip trick added No 2nd display required R tournaments must be registered with the IWWF 30 days before the tournament Full details in t he minutes which will be published shortly. Bob Corson USA re-elected as Chairman

26Nov13 Waterski World Championships provides live webcast from Santiago, Chile

24Nov13 IWWF Tournament Council approves Nate Smith's World Slalom record of 2.5@9.75m from the Ski Ranch Fall Record 1 tournament on Sept.7

The Tournament Council reviewed the application at its meeting in Santiago, Chile

20Nov13 Gold Medalists All Return To Defend Their Titles At Next Week's Waterski World Championships In Chile

2014 Show Ski Tournament - Bulletin 1

18Nov13 2014 IWWF Show Ski Tournament Bulletin 1 is now available

13Nov13 The IWWF Tournament Council has approved Erika Lang's trick record of 10180 points

09Nov13 In Memoriam

Walter Crespi – Italy 1931-2013

Walter joined the European Racing Council at its conception as the F.I.S.N representative. As the Racing Organization throughout Europe progressed I asked him to join me in the effort to progress the World Status.

We met with representatives from Australia and the U.S.A with J.J.Finsterwald and Popoff in Australia and arrived at the formation of the World Council. From then Walter helped me with the smooth running of this council, of which the first World Championships were held in LONDON in September 1979.

With his support Water Ski Racing was established World Wide and has now been running bi-annually for 34 years. Walter was an international judge and has been strongly involved in the organisation of the famous Giro del Lario race and the Racing World Championships in Italy.

Not only did he assist me, but he was my friend, and a good friend to many other members of both Councils.

John Hoiles, former World Racing Council President 1979-1991

05Nov13 Ian Birdsall GBR to be awarded the Order of Merit

Ian Birdsall

It has just been announced that Ian Birdsall will be awarded the Order of Merit during the forthcoming International Hall of Fame Ceremony in Santiago, Chile, on Thursday, November 28th. This distinction is granted at the discretion of the IWWF Executive Board to individuals who have made a significant contribution to our sport outside the framework of the general International Hall of Fame rules. Having just retired as MasterCraft’s Vice President of International Business, Ian has actively promoted our sport for over 40 years. In 1975, his relationship began with MasterCraft. In establishing MasterCraft UK with its own manufacturing facilities, he went on to set up Dealerships in over 30 countries in developing the global brand. In 2004, he signed an agreement with the IWWF as exclusive boat sponsors of the World Cup series which has continued to this day. Sponsoring many of our top skiers and riders, organizing, running and funding national and international competitions and generally supporting IWWF marketing efforts, Ian Birdsall has played a significant part in the success of our sport over these years which will be fully recognized at the November ceremony.

18Oct13 In Memoriam

George Blair (USA) 1915 - 2013

George Blair, known worldwide to so many as “Banana George“, has passed away peacefully just three months before celebrating his 99th birthday. We have lost a great friend and true ambassador of our sport. George was an indefatigable barefoot skier who travelled the world for almost fifty years promoting the sport of water skiing and barefooting wherever possible. His achievements have exploded the myth that water skiing is strictly for the young and have provided inspiration for thousands of water skiers both young and old.

George only started skiing at the age of 40 and barefooting at 46. Apart from owning two Ski Schools, starring at Cypress Gardens and thrilling audiences on the water, he became the most popular barefoot water skier in the world.

He is also probably the only man who has barefoot water-skied on every continent. I had the privilege of meeting George and his wife JoAnne many times all over the World. It was my great pleasure to present to him in 2003 the Order of Merit of the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation.

Our thoughts and prayers are with his wife and his children at this sad time. The Waterski Family will never forget George and he will forever remain in our memory.

Kuno Ritschard, IWWF President

14Oct13 Erika Lang USA sets pending World Record in tricks of 10,180 points

Erika Lang

Erika Lang (Gilbert, Ariz.) was scored for 10,180 points on Saturday at the Imperial Lakes Skiers Choice Record in El Centro, Calif.

08Oct13 IWWF Council and Commission positions are selected

Dusty Schultz USA has been re-elected for another 2 year term as Chairman of the IWWF Racing Council while Cameron King was selected to represent the Racing Council on the IWWF Athletes Commission (AC) at the recent Racing World Championships for two years as well. Previously this year, also at their respective World Championships, Toon van der Ploeg NED was elected as the IWWF Athletes Commission representative for the Disabled Council while Stewart Mackie GBR was re-elected in that capacity for the Boat Wakeboard Council.

01Oct13 NAUTIQUE 2013 Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Championships - 25th to 29th September 2013 - Final Results

NAUTIQUE 2013 Asian Under 17 Waterski Championships
http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/13/13ASIA001/13ASIA001.html

NAUTIQUE 2013 Asian Open Waterski Championships
http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/13/13ASIA002/13ASIA002.html

Team and Wakeboard Results
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30Sep13 In Memoriam

John Wilson (GBR) 1937 - 2013

It is with great sadness that I write of the passing of John Wilson GBR. John was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease a couple of years ago, but it was to be a virulent cancer which took his life after a three month illness this year.

John Wilson gave a huge part of his life to waterskiing. He started skiing in his home county of Yorkshire in 1958 and became a Club Official, then a National Official, and he became an International Official in 1967. He judged internationally and then started specialising as an International Homologator. In which capacity he travelled the World - being Homologator at many European and World events, including the World Cup. He was, of course, an important part of the British Waterski team of officials and committee members and was involved in the organisation of some really big events in Britain, including 2 World Championships, many European Championships and several World Cup events. His role in ensuring the technical installations were correct was most important, and he prided himself on providing the latest technical kit.

When anyone speaks of John they use the words "gentleman" and "professional" and indeed he was both. A sign of his commitment to the sport is that he is one of the very few people to have attended every Europe & Africa Officials Seminar, held annually since 1996 - and we were especially delighted that he came to the 2013 Seminar held in Spain in April. We could all see it was a tiring situation for him, but he stuck to the old formula and stayed up late every night for the official "bar" meetings! He was also a lot of fun to be with at competitions and there are some pretty fun tales to relate, which perhaps are best not contained in this tribute.

Waterskiing has lost a true friend, a dedicated worker and a most knowledgeable man. Our sympathies are extended to his wife Annabelle (pictured here with him in 2011 at the British Waterski Ball) and his children Joanne and Richard.

Words by Gillian Hill

23Sep13 2013 Nautique IWWF Asian Championships Bulletin 3 is now available

2013 Nautique IWWF Asian Championships Bulletin 3

17Sep13 2014 35+ Championships awarded to USA

The 2014 35+ World Waterski Championships will be held at the Sunset Lake site in Groveland, Florida from 8-12 October 2014.
The organisers will be Lelani and Jack Travers.

17Sep13 Australia dominates thrilling week at Waterski Racing World Championships in Tenerife, Spain

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16Sep13 2013 World Waterski Championships Bulletin #3 is now available

15Sep13 U21 World Championships Team Overall

1 USA
2 Australia
3 Italy

15Sep13 U21 World Championships Men Jump

1 Daniel Efverstrom SWE
2 Kamil Borysewicz POL
3 Tobias Hvaara NOR

15Sep13 U21 World Championships Women Jump

1 Jacinta Carroll AUS
2 Taryn Grant CAN
3 Lauren Morgan USA

14Sep13 U21 World Championships Men Tricks

1 Joshua Briant AUS
2 Timothy Bradstreet AUS
3 Martin Kolman CZE

14Sep13 U21 World Championships Men Slalom

1 Stephen Neveu CAN
2 Benjamin Stadlbaur SUI
3 Tyler Yager USA

14Sep13 U21 World Championships Women Tricks

1 Iris Cambray FRA
2 Erika Lang USA (not present)
3 Giannina Bonnemann GER

14Sep13 U21 World Championships Women Slalom

1 Brie Carter USA
2 Samantha Dumala USA
3 Taryn Grant CAN

13Sep13 Steven Neveu CAN earned the top seed in the finals with his performance of 2.5 buoys at 10.25m at the U21 World Championships

Steven Neveu

12Sep13 News from the U21 World Championships

Erika Lang

Erika Lang USA placed 1st in the Women Trick Preliminaries to get the top seed in the finals.

12Sep13 U21 Waterski World Championships start in Florida

See the results live on this link

11Sep13 Thomas Bach is elected as the new IOC President

Andres Botero, IWWF Emeritus President and IWWF President Kuno Ritschard with the new IOC President Thomas Bach from Germany.

08Sep13 Nate Smith USA set a pending world slalom record of 2-1/2 buoys on a 9.75m line on Saturday at the Ski Ranch Fall 1 tournament at the Ski Ranch in Covington, La.

06Sep13 Correct Craft's Ralph C. Meloon Inducted Into The Boating Industry Hall Of Fame

Ralph Meloon

ORLANDO, FL (September 4, 2013) â€” Today Correct Craft is honored to announce that Ralph C. Meloon will be inducted into the National Marine Manufacturer Association (NMMA) Hall of Fame for his career achievements and contributions to the boating industry. Ralph will be recognized during the 23rd annual International Boat Builderâ€™s Exhibition & Conference (IBEX) on September 17th in Louisville, Kentucky.

The NMMA Hall of Fame was established in 1988 and recognizes individuals who have, or continue to generate, substantial and lasting contributions toward the advancement of the boating industry. Being the highest honor to achieve in the industry, the award honors individuals whose names and deeds are synonymous with the pursuit of quality, innovation, and perfection within their respective sphere of expertise.
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05Sep13 Webcast of World Waterski Racing Championships to capture 160kmh excitement in Tenerife, Spain September 7/15

04Sep13 USA, Australia, Korea, Italy and Switzerland take gold at IWWF World Wakeboard Championships in Busan, Korea

03Sep13 Five world records and Team USA makes history in Italy

2013 Busan IWWF World Wakeboard Championships - Live Results - Click here
http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/boatwake/13KOR001/

02Sep13 2013 Busan IWWF World Wakeboard Championships - Final Results

Updated 03Sep13

2013 World Wakeboard Championships Team Overall

1 AUS

2 USA

3 KOR

Full event results available at the following link:
http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/competition.php?cc=W-13KOR001&page=TimeTable

Team Overall Results

31Aug13 2013 Busan IWWF World Wakeboard Championships - Live Results will be available

Open Men Semi-Finals & All Finals Begin at 9:00 am (Korean time) on Sunday 1st September 2013

29Aug13 Jim Grew USA has been re-elected for another 2 year term as Chairman of the IWWF Disabled Council

Jim was re-elected during the IWWF Disabled Council meeting at the IWWF Disabled World Championships in Milan, Italy

28Aug13 USA faces tough challenge to defend Wakeboard World Championships team title this weekend in Busan, Korea

28Aug13 IWWF World Wakeboard Council: Nuno Eca Elected Chairman

Nuno Eca from Portugal has been elected Chairman of the IWWF World Wakeboard Council.

Nuno, owner of and coach at Wake Villa Wakeboard School takes over from Neil Harris from Australia, who decided to step down as Chairman of the IWWF World Wakeboard Council, which he has helmed since 2006. Neil will now focus his attention to the IWWF Wakeboard World Cup Series, we thank Neil for all his dedicated work.

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27Aug13 World Waterski Racing Championships to create dramatic 160kmh spectacle in Canary Islands next week

22Aug13 Italy to host 2013 World Disabled Waterski Championships next week at Idroscalo Milan

21Aug13 World Wakeboard Championships in Republic of Korea to attract top athletes from 30 countries next week

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14Aug13 Provisional Schedule for 2013 World Water Ski Championships released

07Aug13 The 2nd World Water Ski Show Tournament will be held on September 12-14, 2014 in Janesville, Wisconsin USA

Click here to see the full announcement and further information

02Aug13 Neil Harris, Chairman of the IWWF Wakeboard World Cup Committee announces the 2014 Wakeboard World Cup Selection Criteria

Click here to read the Selection Criteria

30Jul13 World Games Gold Medals For Belarus, China, France, Great Britain, Italy And USA In Waterski And Wakeboard

30Jul13 Sharman GBR and Jaquess USA are gold medalists in jump at the World Games
Adkison USA and Han CHN are gold medalists in wakeboard

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29Jul13 Vympranietsova GRE and Sharman GBR lead jump after preliminaries at World Games

29Jul13 Degasperi ITA and Jaquess USA are gold medalists in slalom at the World Games
Zharnasek BLR and Lucine FRA are gold medalists in tricks

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28Jul13 World Games Wakeboard Preliminaries are complete

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27Jul13 World Games Slalom and Trick Preliminaries are completed

The top 8 men and top 6 women go into the finals.

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27Jul13 World Games 2013 In Cali Colombia This Weekend Attracts Outstanding Waterski & Wakeboard Athletes

World Games Opening Ceremony

With 101 Nations, 31 different sports and over 4,500 athletes divided into six categories, Waterski and Wakeboard are in the Trend Sports group for these World Games. The host City of Cali in Colombia in South America is known as the capital of Salsa and the Cali atmosphere is certainly like that of a major Mardi Gras. The Waterski and Wakeboard Finals are on Monday July 29th.

Bulletin 1 for U21 Championships now in the USA

24Jul13 World Games Waterski and Wakeboard events to start on July 26

There are lots of ways to follow the action in Cali, Colombia, this weekend - although there does not appear to be a Webcast.

You can find useful details on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/twg2013cali. Just click on the link and sign in. You will receive a...ll updates and information that passes through their website as well as their Facebook page

Their Twitter Account will be monitored and they will respond when appropriate. The Twitter Account can be found at the following link https://twitter.com/twg2013. Share news with The World Games 2013 Cali in 140 characters or less!

YouTube is where you can find all their videos. There is a dedicated section at http://www.youtube.com/user/twgcali2013. Also see all the most recent videos, and share them with your friends.

21Jul13 2013 International Hall of Fame Selections Announced

Des Burke-Kennedy IRL, Chairman of the International Hall of Fame Selection Committee, today announced the names of the outstanding individuals to be inducted to the International Hall of Fame during the World Waterski Championships in Santiago, Chile, on Thursday, November 28th 2013. In the past 24 years, only 46 Skiers and 22 Officials will now have received this special accolade.
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17Jul13 World U21 Championships Bulletin 1 (USA) is now available

12Jul13 World Wakeboard Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

Bulletin 2
Hotel Registration_Form
Intention & Entry Form

05Jul13 Regina Jaquess USA sets pending World Slalom Record of 3.5@10.25

Regina Jaquess set a pending women's world slalom record of 3-1/2 buoys at 41 feet off on Friday at the Freedom Slalom Fest 2 at the Utopia River Ranch in San Marcos, Texas.

03Jul13 The World Under 21 Waterski Championships will now take place at Lake Hancock, Orange County, Florida from 12-15 September 2013.

A detailed bulletin will soon be available.

01Jul13 In Memoriam

Andrea Plough - USA - 1938 - 2013

USA Water Ski is saddened to report the passing of Andrea Plough, a past president of the organization. Plough, of Berkeley, Calif., died on Wednesday, June 26, 2013. She was 74 years old.

Plough also was a past president of the American Water Ski Association and USA Wakeboard. In 1999 she was the recipient of USA Water Ski's Award of Merit, the highest award presented to a volunteer in the organization.

01Jul13 2014 World Junior Waterski Championships selected

It is with great pleasure that we would like to announce that the 2014 World Junior Waterski Championships will be held from 29 July to 3 August 2014 in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

The Dnepropetrovsk site was the venue of the 2012 European Youth Waterski Championships, and offers excellent conditions. We are looking forward to a large turnout for this Event, so please make this information available to your Federation members.

24Jun13 Italy and France take slalom gold medals at Mediterranean Games in spectacular Mersin Turkey finals

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21Jun13 Waterski World Rankings are now available

21Jun13 World U21 Championships Cancelled

It is with great regret that IWWF announces that the World Under 21 Championships due to be held in Namibia in September have been cancelled.
Martin Schmidt, Chairman of the Namibian Water Ski Association has advised that due to circumstances outside the control of the Association, they are no longer able to host this event.
In effect, the water ski site will no longer be available for use. IWWF is investigating possible alternative venues, and we will keep all Federations and interested parties informed over the coming days.
We will also be publishing information as soon as possible concerning any possible refunds.

Contact Gill Hill, IWWF Secretary General for more information

17Jun13 Mediterranean Games to Feature Waterskiers from Eight Countries Next Weekend at Turkey's Spectacular Mersin Site

Bulletin 2
Federation Team Entry form
Individual Team Entry form
IWWF Anti-Doping Acknowledgment and Agreement

14Jun13 Bulletin 2 and Forms for the 2013 World Waterski Racing Championships are now available.

The Championships will take place in Tenerife, Canary Islands (Spain) from September 5-15.

12Jun13 The IWWF Tournament Council has approved Nate Smith's slalom World Record tie of 2@9.75m

10Jun13 Regina Jaquess USA has tied her own slalom World Record of 3@10.25m

The run was Sunday in the second round of the Big Dawg Warmup Record 2 at Cedar Ridge Ski Lake in Canton, Miss.

09Jun13 First Cable Wakeboard Event Ever Staged At An Olympic Rowing Lake Finishes In Style At Shun Yi In Beijing China On Sunday

Cosima Giemza GER
Maxine Sapulette NED
Jaimi Oxlade AUS

Dominik Guhrs GER
Szebasztien Szolath HUN
Nick Davies GBR

Celebrating The Formal Opening Of A Fantastic Cable Wakeboard Site Adds A Totally New Dimension To The Sport

While it was misty on Friday and Saturday here at this magnificent Olympic venue in Beijing, it turned to light rain for all the final day of these history making championships. In spite of this, the great atmosphere and smiles continued from start to finish. It was certainly a happy and very well organised competition for the Riders from 19 countries but also one of the most competitive battles ever between the top Cable Riders in the world today. The cash prize pot of this IWWF event of US$50,000 brought an extra edge to the outstanding performances !
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03Jun13 Wakeboard to Make History at Beijing's Shun Yi Olympic Rowing Lake Next Weekend June 7-10

03Jun13 Nate Smith USA reportedly ties the slalom World Record

Nate tied the record with 2@9.75m at Little Mountain Spring Pro Am 2, in Maiden, NC on June 2. This will be reviewed by the IWWF Tournament Council.

30May13 Olympics 2020 New Sports Decision Announced By IOC

Following much debate and attempts to predict how the IOC would announce their decision regarding new sports for the 2020 Olympic Games, the decision still came as a surprise to many. Our WAKEBOARD 2020 VISION Team successfully completed the presentation to the full IOC Executive Board this afternoon, together with Baseball/Softball, Karate, Roller Sports, Sport Climbing, Wushu and Wrestling.
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29May13 The IWWF has met with the IOC Executive Board and made its Olympic Inclusion presentation

L-R:Des Burke-Kennedy,Argy Daskalopolous, Varno Laco, Gill Hill, Kuno Ritschard, Andres Botero

Following days of practice and many months of preparation, the IWWF WAKEBOARD 2020 VISION presentation team met the full Executive Board of the IOC today. The IOC President opened the formal meeting and our IWWF Team was invited to make a full presentation on "Why Wakeboard" Our team comprised Kuno Ritschard SUI, Andres Botero COL, Gill Hill GBR, Des Burke-Kennedy IRL, Varno Laco CRO and Argy Daskalopolous SIN. In comments to the very large Press corps following the presentation, the IWWF team confirmed that the comprehensive presentation went very well and that the response from the IOC Executive Board really was very good. As a youth focused 15-35 cool sport, it really ticks all the IOC boxes. The Press showed particular interest in the low cost element and its youth focus.

Later this evening, the IOC have called a Press Conference. Following the much publicised Wrestling removal from the Games and its later reintroduction to the 2020 short list, the Press interest is enormous. The IWWF Team will attend this Conference here in St Petersburg at 19.30hrs local time

28May13 Wakeboard in Spotlight Again at Beijing's Olympic Rowing Lake for its Historic First Major Competition

Bulletin 1
Airport Transfer Request Form
Entry Form
Hotel Reservation Form
Intent To Enter Form

27May13 2013 Asian Championships Information is now available

27May13 Water Ski World Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

Bulletin 2
Revised Final Schedule is in Bulletin #3 - disregard the schedule in this Bulletin

27May13 A New Slalom Record And Five New Masters Champions Concludes The 54Th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament

Pine Mountain, GA (May 26, 2013) ? The 54th Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament? at Callaway Gardens brought five new Masters Champions including Women?s Trick champion Iris Cambray, Men?s Trick champion Aliasksei Zharnasek, Women?s Jump champion Jacinta Carroll, Wakeskate champion Brian Grubb and Women?s Wakeboard champion Raimi Merritt plus a new course record in Women?s Slalom pulled by the Ski Nautique 200.
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24May13 Masters Waterski Tournament offers live webcast

For the ninth year in a row Nautique will provide live web coverage of the prestigious Masters Water Ski & Wakeboard Tournament via www.masterswaterski.com. This event is held at beautiful Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain, Georgia (just outside Atlanta) over Memorial Day weekend, May 24-26.
New for this year, Apple iPhone/iPad users will be able to view the live webcast of the world’s most anticipated watersports event. View all of the live action including interviews with key industry representatives, wakesurfing exhibition with the all-new Nautique Surf System, head-to-head exhibition with slalom’s up and coming junior skiers presented by O’Brien and much more. The 54th Masters live webcast will begin Friday morning at 8:00 am EST with the 21st Junior Masters.
Additionally, Nautique will provide periodic live event coverage of the tournament via its Twitter and Facebook accounts (@NautiqueBoats). Follow Nautique to catch all of the latest updates during the 54th Masters weekend.

20May13 Olympic Games Sites Welcome Wakeboard In China And Spain

15May13 2013 Disabled World Championships Bulletin 2 is now available

15May13 Asian Coaches and Judges Development Seminar held in Tokyo - Japan

Over 52 participants in Japan for the annual Asian Coaches and Judges Development Seminar held in Tokyo - Japan, 11th/12th of May.

13May13 Now available Bulletin 2 for the 2013 World Under 21 Waterski Championships. The Championships will take place at the Von Bach Dam in Okahandja, Namibia from 12 - 15 September.

Full Jump Results
Full Trick Results
Full Wakeboard Results

08May13 South Sumatra Governor And Indonesia?s Sports Leaders Enjoy Spectacular World Cup Banquet

Republic of Indonesia Minister of Youth and Sports Affairs, KRMT Roy Suryo, South Sumatra Governor Alex Noerdin, IWWF President Kuno Ritschard, Rear Admiral Didit Herdiawan, Chairman of the Indonesian Waterski and Wakeboard Association

07May13 Full Results from 2013 Palembang World Cup

07May13 USA, France, Belarus and Australia Take World Cup Gold Medals in Palembang South Sumatra, Indonesia

30Apr13 GET MOVING!
The IOC guide to managing Sport for All programmes is now available

This guide was officially launched in Lima, Peru, at the 15th IOC World Conference on Sport for All.
This interactive document contains practical tools and case studies from around the world. It aims at providing inspiration and assistance for all those developing and managing Sport for All programmes, big and small.
The English version of the toolkit is available here.

29Apr13 World Cup Series Wakeboarders and Skiers from 25 Countries to Battle for Prestigious Stop Titles in Palembang Indonesia

Bulletin 1
Intent to Enter Form
Revised Rules

24Apr13 Current IWWF President Kuno Ritschard meets with past IWWF President Andres Botero

Kuno Ritschard and Andres Botero

On his way to the IOC Conference Sport for All in Lima, Peru, IWWF President Kuno Ritschard had a meeting with the Minister of Sport of Colombia and the IWWF Emeritus President, Mr. Andres Botero Phililipsbourne. He discussed with him our WAKEBOARD 2020 VISION campaign and a possible World Cup stop in Bogota. Colombia is the Host country of the 2013 World Games.

23Apr13 Bulletin 1 for the World Wakeboard Championships to be held in Busan, Korea from August 28 to September 1 is now available

Wakeboard Council Secretary Colin Hart points out the following changes to the Rules:

Please note the rules have changed under section 9.2.1, which refers to the maximum number of riders to make team, this was displayed as 10 in the previous circulated 2013 rules but has now been reduced to 8, due to the exclusion of the under 9 age division in 2013 Championships.

22Apr13 Oil Rich Palembang Indonesia Welcomes Waterski and Wakeboard World Cup Series Back to Jakabaring Sports City in South Sumatra

22Apr13 E&A Coaches and Judges Development Seminar held in St. Petersburg -Russia -

Over 40 participants were in Russia for the annual E&A Coaches and Judges Development Seminar held in St Petersburg - Russia, the 19th - 21st of April. The next seminar run by the Development Committee will be in Tokyo, May 11,12, 13th.

04Apr13 World Racing Championships Bulletin and Intent to Enter forms are now available

Tokyo C&J Seminar Official Bulletin

Intent to Enter Form

04Apr13 2013 Disabled Rules are now available

2013 Disabled Rules

28Mar13 Officials named for World Games being held July 26-29 in Cali, Colombia

Both waterski and wakeboard events will be held in the World Games

Head Chief Judge Larry Gisler BRA

Waterski

Chief Judge Mike Wrenn AUS

Homologator Nigel Talamo GBR

Chief Calculator Maritza Concha CHI

Judges Masako Yamaguchi JAP

Ivar Fosse NOR

Gavin Kelly GBR

Felipe Leal COL

Kerri Lee USA

Nikki Lee USA

Vern Oberg CAN

Chief Driver Davide Gandola ITA

Driver Jerry Bautsch USA

Wakeboard

Chief Judge Sanghan Jung KOR

Judges Nils Kroon NED

Oscar Scheel ECU

Cristina Amador Peters ECU

Calculator Christine Hui TPE

Driver Joe Hung HKG

Updated May 2, 2013

28Mar13 Officials named for the Waterski World Championships in Santiago, Chile Nov 25 - Dec 1

Chief Judge	MOZ Candido ITA
Assistant Chief Judge	SMITH Jeff USA
Homologator	Alberto Ceruti ITA

Chief Calculator	RISTREPO Diego COL
Calculator	FROMIAU Muriel FRA
	JOHNSON Laura USA

Judges	ARMSTRONG Jeffry USA
	BUZZOTTA Ilaria ITA
	COCKBURN Bruce AUS
	HAYES Mike USA
	JOHANSSON Anders SWE
	MARTIN Patrice FRA
	MOORE Jo Ann CAN
	NASER Jorge CHL
	RITTER Robert CHL
	WRIGHT Maureen MON

Chief Driver	FOWLER Rupert GBR

Drivers	BOTAS Ricardo ESP
	MARTIN Glen AUS
	MOORE Ron CAN
	PIGOSSI Mario DOM

Reserve Scorer	LEE Nikki USA
Reserve driver	ROGERS Pat USA

28Mar13 Coaches & Judges Development Seminar to be held in Tokyo May 11-13

20Mar13 Australia and USA Dominate the 36th World Cup Stop at Mandurah Western Australia

Click here for World Cup Results

17Mar13 Jacinta Carroll AUS, Erika Lang USA, Jimmy Siemers USA and Freddy Krueger USA are winners of the Masndurah World Cup Stop

Jicinta Carroll wins her first World Cup Stop

See the Scores here

16Mar13 At the Mandurah World Cup, Freddy Krueger is the top qualifier in challenging conditions

Freddy has top score in Preliminaries

See the Scores here
The finals will be webcast on:
www.iwwf.tv

15Mar13 Erica Lang USA, Jacinta Carroll AUS and Alexandre Poteau FRA lead after the preliminaries at the World Cup in Mandurah

Marion Mathieu FRA qualifies for the finals in Mandurah

14Mar13 Final Countdown to Mandurah World Cup Stop at this Weekend's Eyres Action Sports Extravaganza in Western Australia

Click here for Bulletin 1

12Mar13 iSportconnect is hosting a poll to see what sport should be added to the 2020 Olympics

Take the poll to support IWWF's bid to have Wakeboarding included.
Click here to take the poll and be eligible for prizes

12Mar13 World Disabled Championships Bulletin 1 is now available

10Mar13 Moomba Masters Finals will be contested Monday in Melbourne

See the webcast and results at http://www.moombamasters.com/

07Mar13 World Record Holders And World Champions Confirmed For 36th World Cup Stop In Mandurah Western Australia

Download Information Bulletin Here

02Mar13 E&A Coaches and Judges Development Seminar to be held in Saint Petersburg

E&A Coaches and Judges Development Seminar will be held in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 19th to 21st April 2013.
This Seminar is geared towards beginner and intermediate coaching up to an early international skiing level.
The judge's course will cover the rules and the judge?s role over the 3 events (slalom, trick and jump) with the aim to run and judge competitions up to National Level.
This seminar is open world wide.

28Feb13 Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup Takes Center Stage Again at Eyres Action Sports Games Mandurah 2013

25Feb13 Officials panel named for the 2013 World Disabled Championships

Chief Judge: Mike Wrenn AUS
Assistant Chief Judge: Paolo Barbieri ITA
Chief Calculator: Larry Downes USA
Chief Homologator: Paul Goossens BEL

Class. Chief/Dr. : Keith Barbour USA
Class. Chief/Athlete: Scott Wintle AUS
Class. Chief/Health Pro: Stefania Basso ITA

Scorer: Paul Airey GBR

Judges:
Roy Collins GBR
Carmen Ferrer Bosch ESP
Louise Guillot FRA
Claudine Wuyts BEL
Bill Bowness USA
Denise Bowness USA
Jim Grew USA

Chief Driver: Fabrizio Sonzogni ITA

Driver: Glen Martin AUS

24Feb13 IWWF President Speaks to iSportconnect About Wakeboarding?s 2020 Mission

24Feb13 World Junior Championships completed in Mulwala

2012 Junior World Championships Team Overall

1 USA

2 AUS

3 CAN

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23Feb13 Medals awarded at the World Junior Championships in Mulwala