IWWF Asia & Oceania Waterski Championships 2017

Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Posted by Chris

Some 230 skiers, barefooters, riders, officials and guests gathered at the Orakei Basin, Auckland for the opening ceremony and welcome dinner for the biennial IWWF Asia & Oceania Waterski Championships.

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The Orakei Basin is the home of the Auckland Waterski Club since 1955, which co-hosted the opening function along with the organisers of the championships, the New Zealand Waterski & Wakeboard Federation.

In an ambitious expanded programme the championships include three-event tournament skiing and barefoot skiing at Lake Kereta and wakeboarding, ski racing and show skiing at Lake Karapiro.

The competition begins on Wednesday 1st February 2017 and concludes on Sunday 5th February with the awards banquet in Auckland.

The Orakei Basin is the sacred home of the Ngatiwhatua the main Maori tribe amongst 19 in the Auckland area.

Fittingly guests were welcomed to their homelands by a warm Maori welcome from the Haka The Legend Group, from the Auckland Museum, with an introduction to their culture.

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In a traditionally informal approach formalities were kept to a minimum. IWWF VP Ed Donald and Tim Larkin, President of the Auckland Waterski Club, welcomed the visitors and wished all competitors much success.

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PHUKET WAKE PARK ALL READY FOR THE FIRST IWWF ASIAN CABLE WAKEBOARD & WAKESKATE CUP THIS WEEKEND

Saturday, May 7, 2016
Posted by Chris

Top cable wakeboard & wakeskate riders from the Asian region have arrived in Phuket, Thailand this week to compete in the first IWWF Asian Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Cup at Phuket Wake Park.

The management of Phuket Wake Park has expressed their excitement to welcome 38 riders from 11 countries: China, Chinese Taipei, Hongkong, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Korea, Kuwait, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.

This inaugural invitational event is a major milestone for the sport, showing again the massive development of cable wakeboarding and wakeskating in the Asian region.
 

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We expect an epic battle on the water this weekend with big-name Asian riders taking each other on, names such as Yun Sanghyun (KOR), Guy Tanaka (SIN), Grim Narita (JPN) and Mark Griffin (PHI).  There will also be excitement in the Women’s Cable Wakeboard event with the likes of 2014 Asian Beach Games Gold Medalist Yun Heeyun, 2014 Asian Beach Games Silver Medalist Duan Zhen Kun (CHN) and the 2015 IWWF Asian Cable Wakeboard Women’s Champion Megumi Tomabechi (JPN). Reigning Asian Men’s & Women’s Wakeskate Champions Obi Cembrano (PHI) and Susan Larsson (PHI) will battle other top cable wakeskaters again to retain their No. 1 Asian rankings.

Phuket Wake Park has prepared a variety of fringe activities such as dance performances, fireworks, night riding, DJ and dance party, and welcomes all riders, family members, cable wakeboarding and wakeskating enthusiasts to join the big event this weekend!
Also included is the Phuket Cable Wakeboard Open with the youngest entry aged 7.

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Invited Cable Riders & Wakeskaters

 

Women’s Wakeboard

Country

Men’s Wakeboard

Country

1

Duan Zhen Kun

China

1

Poe Huang

Chinese Taipei

2

Yu Mei Ling

China

2

Julian Shamdas

Hongkong

3

Shannon Teng

Chinese Taipei

3

Alek Hanief

Indonesia

4

Nadya Sinaga

Indonesia

4

Omid Aslan

Iran

5

Shima Aminim

Iran

5

Kazuyuki Tusjimoto

Japan

6

Megumi Tomabechi

Japan

6

Grim Narita

Japan

7

Rie Koike

Japan

7

Kim Yunseo

Korea

8

Yun Heeyun

Korea

8

Sanghyun Yun

Korea

9

Seulki Joo

Korea

9

Bader Aljihayem

Kuwait

10

Shaikha Al-Nouri

Kuwait

10

Mark Griffin

Philippines

11

Andrea Tanjangco

Philippines

11

Gelo Linao

Philippines

12

Srirasin Kamklom

Thailand

12

Guy Tanaka

Singapore

13

Pinmanee Keawsugsang

Thailand

13

Tatsanai Kuakoonrat

Thailand

14

Mackinthai Thomas Rosen

Thailand

Women’s Wakeskate

Country

Men’s Wakeskate

Country

1

Yeh Hsien Ying

Chinese Taipei

1

Spin Min

Chinese Taipei

2

Susan Larsson

Philippines

2

Matsukawa Nagahisa

Japan

3

Tulip Tadtiam

Thailand

3

Kwon Junyeop

Korea

4

Thanutkhan Soonthonwong

Thailand

4

Obi Cembrano

Philippines

5

Jose Corpuz

Philippines

6

Amnaht Murphy

Thailand

7

Burid Detwilaisri

Thailand

 

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Malaysia wins bid to host the 2019 World Waterski Championships

Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Posted by Chris

The IWWF World Congress was held on Thursday 19th November 2015 in Chapala, Mexico, during the World Waterski Championships.

During the course of the meeting the Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard Federation successfully bid to host the 2019 World Waterski Championships in Putrajaya, Malaysia.

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Aaliyah Yoong-Hanifah, Malaysia 12-year old young waterski star, competing at the Worlds, was delighted knowing she’ll have home-advantage. Along with the Malaysian delegates she looks forward to welcoming the waterski world and their families to Malaysia.

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2015 Singha IWWF Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Championships

Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Posted by Chris

Held at Rabbit Lake, Bangkok, from 4th to 8th November 2015, the 2015 Singha IWWF Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Championships proved a great success with numerous personal bests including Mark Leong again breaking the Singapore National record.

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The event sponsored by Singha Water was organized by the Thailand Extreme Sports Association in conjunction with IWWF Asia after the highly successful 2014 Phuket Asian Beach Games.

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Despite being disrupted by rain the team awards were presented at the closing function with the Max Kirwan Waterski Team Shield presented to Japan and the Max Kirwan Wakeboard Team Shield presented to Korea.

IWWF 1st Asia & Oceania Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships Day 3

Sunday, October 25, 2015
Posted by Chris

 

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The inaugural IWWF Asia & Oceania Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships came to an exciting conclusion on Sunday 25th October 2015. First off the AO U19 Junior Ladies and Men Finals, Gabby Gabrielle (AUS) took the Ladies’ title ahead of Nadya Sinagai of Indonesia with Akela Bowman  (TPE) 3rd. Blake Muller  (AUS) took the junior Men’s title beating off the challenge  of both Kwon Junyeop (KOR) and  Patrick Klug (TPE).

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The wind pricked-up for the start of the AO Cable Wakeskate competition but in a reversal of fortunes it was Susan Larsson (PHI) who took the title from Asian Champion Tulip Tadtiam (THA) with Hsien  Ying Yeh 3rd. The competition was especially close between Obi Cembrano (PHI) and Cody Murphy (AUS) in the Men’s Cable Wakeskate  with Murphy taking the honours by the narrowest of margins.  Burid Detwilaisiri (THA) finished 3rd.

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 Despite an early fall in his first ride in the AO Men’s 30+ Cable Wakeboard Championship Carlo Dela Torre completed a stand-up pass on his final run to take the title ahead of Shi Ping-Lien (TPE) and Sam Cheng  (TPE).

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Competion was again particularly close in the AO Ladies Cable Wakeboard event with Ho Chao-Ching taking 2nd place ahead of Shannon Teng by just 0.33 of a point while Megumi Tomabechi (JPN) took top honours by just 3 points.

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Some thrilling and spectacular riding by the men in the finals of the AO Cable Wakeboard Men’s event  saw Ken Tackmann (THA)  finish in 3rd place with 73.33, Im San (KOR) 2nd with 78 and Scotty Wilkings taking the champion title  with 79.67.

After the individual awards ceremony at the site, a closing dinner followed where the team awards were presented with the Philippines 3rd, Chinese Taipei 2nd and Australia 1st.

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The Lotus Wake Park, the Chinese Taipei Waterski & Wakeboard Association and all officials and riders are to be congratulated on making the event such a huge success.   

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IWWF 1st Asia & Oceania Cable Wakeboard & Wakeskate Championships Day 2

Saturday, October 24, 2015
Posted by Chris

The inaugural Asia & Oceania Champonships continued today Saturday 24th October 2015 at Lotus Pond in glorious sunshine.

First  up were the AO Under 19 Junior Ladies and Junior Men qualifiers followed by AO +30 Men Qualifiers.

Gabby Gabrielle (AUS) topped the table in Junior Ladies  ahead of Akela Bowman TPE while Blake Muller  AUS held off the challenge Kwon Junyeop and the two Chinese Taipei riders.

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 MC of the event and the voice of Asian wakeboarding Carlo Dela Torre showed he still has a trick or two  up his sleeve topping the table in the over 30s.

The AO Wakeskate Qualifiers followed with Tulip Tadtiam (THA) again holding off the challenge of Susan Larson (PHI) by the narrowest of margins. It was a different story in the Men’s Open where Cody Murphy (AUS) dominated with a score of 74.67 with Burid Detwilaisri (THA) lying 2nd with 57.67.

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After lunch the AO Ladies took to their boards for their Open qualifiers where local Shannon Teng (TPE) held off the challenge of the six other riders with Tomabechi Megumi (JPN) lying 2nd.

The 13 riders in the Men’s Open qualifiers were split into two heats with the top three in each going through to the finals. The last seven were left to fight it out for the last two places through the last chance qualifiers (LCQ). Guy Tanaka (SIN), Mark Griffin (PHI), Ken Tackmann (THA), Scotty Wilkings (AUS), Sam Im (KOR) and Khalid Alawadhi (KUW) all progressed directly to the finals whilst Kazuyuki Tsujimoto (JPN) and Angelo Louise Linao (PHI) both made it through via the LCQ.

Some of the most entertaining riding of the day was left for the finals of the Girls and Boys under 15s. Australian Shantarna Mcpherson-Bremner took the honours in the girls ahead of 9-year old Mishka Bowman (TPE) and Yen Chi Cheng (TPE).

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Both Mikayo Mundy (AUS) and Saif Saif Khaled (UAE) pulled off some big tricks but fell short of Declan Wheeler (AUS) who finished his final run with an awesome heel 900 off the final kicker to take the honours.

Riding continues tomorrow Sunday 25th October 2015 with the finals.

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Saturday, October 24, 2015
Posted by Chris


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2015 IWWF 1st Asia & Oceania Cable Wakeboard Wakeskate Championships

Saturday, October 24, 2015
Posted by Chris

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A lasting legacy at Lotus Pond, Kaohsiung, venue for the waterskiing events at the 2009 World Games Kaohsiung has been the creation of the Lotus Cable Park.

Some 50+ riders from 10 counties have assembled here in Kaohsiung for the 2015 IWWF 1st Asia & Oceania Cable Wakeskate Championships.

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The opening ceremony on the morning of 23rd October 2015 saw local dignitaries attend including Mr. Kevin Huang, Director of the Department of Sports, Kaohsiung City and Mrs Fan Sun-Lu Director-general Kaohsiung City Government Bureau of Education. Representing the IWWF were Russell Morris, President IWWF Oceania and Chris Howarth IWWF Asia Secretary General.

 It was then straight into the competition kicking off the first day with the Asian Wakeskate and Asian Wakeboard Championships. A break in the middle of the day allowed for the first round of the AO Under 15 Girls & Boys Cable Wakeboard Qualifiers. 

There was plenty of action on the water with some intense riding.

Results

Asian Open Cable Wakeskate Finals

                       Ladies                                 Men

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1st           Tulip Tadtiam  THA         Obi Cembrano     PHI

  2nd          Susan Larrson  PHI          Burit Detwilaisri  THA                                     

  3rd          Hsieh Yin Yeh   TPE          Kwon Junyeop    KOR

  Asian Open Cable Wakeboard Finals

                        

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             Ladies                                                               Men

   1st   Megumi Tomabechi   JPN                    Im San                KOR

  2nd  Rie Koike                      JPN                      Guy Tanaka        SIN   

  3rd  Pei Shan Teng              TPE                      Saif Saif Khaled  UAE 

 

 

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SEA Games Records

Thursday, June 25, 2015
Posted by Chris

At the recently concluded SEA Games held in Singapore 11th -14 July 2015 along with numerous new national records four new SEA Games records were set as follows:

 

Open Men Slalom

4.00/58/12.00m       Leong Mark (SIN)                   2015, Singapore

1.00/58/12.00m       Wangka Fath Daud (INA)    1997, Jakarta

 

Open Men Jump

46.9m                         Hermana Ade (INA)                  2015, Singapore

45.3m                         Koa Kai Hock (SIN)                   1997, Jakarta

 

Open Women Slalom

3.00/55/13.00m Christian Sasha Siew Hoon(SIN)2015,Singapore

1.00/55/14.25          Yolandasari Baiq Vera (INA)  1997, Jakarta

 

Open Women Tricks

6110                           Yoong-Hanifah Aaliyah             2015, Singapore

3000                           Setiawan Inawati (INA)            1997, Jakarta

 

We wish to recognize the above achievements and congratulate the athletes on their commendable performances and trust that these as well as the following two continuing records will be improved upon in the next Games in Malaysia in 2017. 

Open Women Jump

30.6m                         Giritya Endhar Pupul (INA)   2011, Palembang

 

Open Men Tricks

6600                           Koa Kai Hock (SIN)                  1997, Jakarta

 

28th SEA Games Singapore 14 June 2015

Thursday, June 18, 2015
Posted by Chris

It was raining heavily as skiers and officials arrived at Bedok Reservoir for the final waterski and wakeboard events of the 28th SEA Games with three gold medals at stake ie men and women’s ski overall and the wakeboard team medal.

Fortunately the breeze and rain eased off allowing the preliminary round of the overall jump competition to get underway.  Kaliya Kee (SIN) cleared 18.9m which Aaliyah Yoong-Hanifah (MAS) stretched to 19.1m. However it was the Indonesians Nur Alimah Priambodo and Rossi Amir who upped the ante with 21.3m and 24.4m respectively.

Hero of the day was Mark Leong who put his body on the line for Singapore by attempting the jump ramp for the first time ever. In a gutsy performance he cleared 10.7m on his first jump and followed up with two further landed jumps.  Alex Yoong (MAS) more used to G forces of F1 raised the bar clearing 35.7m which Kadir Febrianto (INA) was unable to match falling short with 33m. Ade Hermana (INA) thrilled the crowd with a 45.1m to add valuable points towards claiming the overall title.

It was straight into the overall women’s slalom final. Unfortunately none of the women were able to improve on their preliminary scores where Aaliyah Yoong-Hanifah (MAS) and  Kalya Kee (SIN) had tied their scores with 0.5 buoys at 55kph on the 13m line. Second time around Aaliyah failed to score on the 16m line whilst Kalya ran 4.5 buoys to finish top of the pack.

In the men’s slalom overall third off the dock Ade Hermana (INA) set the score to beat with 3.5 buoys at 14.25m. Alex Yoong (MAS) was unable to match it scoring 1 at 14.25 which Mark Leong comfortably topped with 1 buoy at 12m.

The wakeboard team overall followed. Last off the dock was Sasha Christian with Panyapa Tangsirirat (THA) score of 45 to beat. She accomplished this with ease with a well balanced performance of execution, intensity and composition finishing with a score of 59.89.

The men’s team event again proved highly competitive with Joshua Tay and Samual Chua both of Singapore putting in runs of 62.45 and 67.78 respectively. Mark Griffin (PHI) raised the bar higher to 73.45 before Tatasani Kuakoonrat (THA) finally pulled off his toe 900 finishing with a score of 78.67. Padiwat Jaemjan (THA) then wowed the crowd with an intense composition to finish with 83.78 and capture the team wakeboard gold for Thailand. Singapore collected silver and the Philippines bronze.

The tricks overall finals followed. Both Rossi Amir (INA) and Kalya Kee (SIN) matched their first round scores. Nur Alimah Prambodo (INA) scored 3210 against a first round score of 3340. However there was no stopping young Aaliyah Yoong-Hanifah (MAS) who set another SEA Games record with a score of 6110.

In the men’s overall tricks Mark Leong finished in 3rd place with his best score in the first round. Alex Yoong improved on his first round score with 2380 while despite scoring 2980 it was Kadir Febrianto’s first round score of 3010 which earned him the overall trick title.

Conditions were again ideal for the final events the men and women’s overall jump competitions.

Both Kalya Kee (SIN) and Aaliyah Yoong-Hanifah (MAS) cleared 19m with Aaliyah finishing 3rd with 19.1m from her first round. Nur Alimah Prambodo (INA) couldn’t quite match her first round score of 21.30 which gave her 2nd place. Rossi Amir (INA) sailed further than anyone over the ramp to finish with 30.05m and give her 4th place overall, taking into account all three events of slalom, tricks and jump.

Second place in overall and the silver medal went to Nur Alimah Priambodo (INA) bettered only by Aaliyah Yoong-Hanifah’s 2155.56 who claimed another gold medal for Malaysia.

Mark Leong (SIN) failed to improve on his very first jump of 10.7m and finished in 4th place in overall for the three disciplines. Kadir Febrianto (INA) rose to the occasion to clear 39.8m which Alex Yoong (MAS) failed to match with 37.1m. Ade Hermana (INA) then cleared 44.7m bettered only by his first round score of 45.1m. This gave him 3rd place overall. Yoong was disappointed he was unable to retain his overall title, finishing in 2nd place, whilst Kadir Febrianto (INA) earned the gold medal with a score of 2236.32.

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