IWWF Asia Oceania

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The 2012 Nautique IWWF AAO Waterski & Wakeboard Championships incorporating the Asian Waterski & Wakeboard Championships & Asian U17 Waterski Championships commenced on Friday 24th August 2012. The event kicked off with the Under 17’s all day. The preliminary rounds of the Asian, Australasian & Oceanian (AAO) championships continued on Saturday with slalom and tricks followed by a ski show by the Stars of Florida. In the evening a spectacular and entertaining opening ceremony welcomed the 12,000 athletes participating in a variety of sports at the annual Chuncheon Leisure Sports Games of which waterskiing and wakeboarding are a part.
Operating on two sites the wakeboarders took to the water on one, whilst on the main site the finals of the Under 17’s took place. Having already shattered the Malaysian national trick record with 4220 points in the preliminary round of the Women’s event Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah comfortably took gold in the U17’s with a score of 3230pts breaking her own existing Asian U17 record. Park Jae Yung wins U17 Boys tricks for Korea.
Indra Hardinata (INA) won the U17 Boys slalom gold with a sensational new record of 0.5/58/12m while Kalya Kee of Singapore took gold in U17 Girls slalom.
Unfortunately a typhoon is now threatening the competition so an emergency plan is now in operation to conclude the event a day early before the storm hits.

 AAO Cable Wakeboard Council Member, Argyrios Daskalopoulos, conducts a Cable Wakeboard Judging Seminar in Korea for the Korean  Waterski & Wakeboard Association at the Olympic rowing site.

Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah smashes her own Malaysian open women tricks record of 3230 points with a score of 3630 points in round 2 of the combined open men & women and age groups tricks event in the Coup De Meuzac in France this morning. She is over the moon and she considers this her birthday present for herself as she turns 9 on the 16th of July in a little more than a week’s time.

Way to go Aaliyah.

Ashleigh Stebbeings (AUS) made history on June 23, 2012 at the Southern Glass 2012 Barefoot Waterski Tournament. Ashleigh set a new Women’s Barefoot Trick Record of 5050 Pts. and became the first women in history to push the World Record over the 5000 point mark.

The record run will be posted at www.WorldBarefootCouncil.com within the next few days.

Congratulations to Ashleigh on an outstanding performance!

Day 3 Friday 22nd June 2012 

Conditions on Jiulong Lake (Nine Dragons Lake) were ideal when the 2012 Ski Nautique 200 CB pulled Seo Nana (KOR) on her first pass in the ten women trick finals. Fifth off the dock Saaya Hirosawa (JPN) improved on her first round performance with 3020 points as did 8-year old Aaliyah Yoong (MAS) with 2950.     Fifth off the dock Saaya Hirosawa (JPN) improved on her first round performance with 3020 points as did 8-year old Aaliyah Yoong (MAS) with 2950.

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 In the women’s wakeboard last chance qualifiers (LCQ) Apassom  Akaraisayaporn (THA) and Tantanasorn Chaiyabood (THA) along with Lee Sunjoo (KOR) and Srirasin Khamklom (THA) all made it through to the semi-finals.

Women’s wakeboard preliminaries went according to seedings with the top two in each of the four heats advancing to the semi-finals. Scores of the winners of each heat Miko Asai, (JPN) Duan Zhenkun (KOR), Chen Lili (CHN) and Sasha Christian(SIN) were all fairly similar making the semi-finals something to really look forward to.

First off the dock in the men’s prelims Ronnie Cheung (HKG) set the standard with 5th seeded Zhang Wei (CHN) missing out on direct qualification to the semis to Nur Priambodo (INA). Two of the three Thai riders, Bunyalo Jumruang and Tatsanai Kuakoonrat found themselves in the same heat but both qualified for the semis. Ji Hoon (KOR) topped the leader board in Heat 3 while Hong Kong’s Wan Ka Choi missed out on direct qualification into the semis by the narrowest of margins of just 0.12 to Lin Xiaojun (CHN).
Padiwat Jaemjan (THA) and Julien Breistroff (HKG) both qualified for the semis along with the two Koreans Kim Byoungrang and Jung Insang in the final heat.

The competition got underway today 20th June 2012 commencing with Wakeboard preliminaries

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A spectacular opening ceremony, in a purpose built 18,000 stadium, with the most amazing stage that accomplished all sorts of contortions, kicked off the start of the 3rd Asian Beach Games in Haiyang, Shandong Province, China on Saturday 16th June 2012.
The audience was addressed by Sheik Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah President, Olympic Council of Asia (OCA)and opened by Mr Ma Kai, Secretary General of the State Council of China.

Some 1,601 athletes from 45 countries have converged on Haiyang to participate in one of the 13 sports disciplines on offer which include just three water sports events dragon boating ,windsurfing and waterskiing .

Ten sports are already underway with waterskiing /wakeboarding starting with familiarisation on the afternoon of Tuesday 19th of June once the dragon boat racing finishes.
All of the international technical officials have now arrived along with the majority of the 56 Asian skiers and riders.
A welcoming banquet on Sunday evening 17th June, hosted by the OCA, provided an opportunity for VIP’s and invited guests to make new friends in sport and renew old acquaintances.

Preparations are well underway for the start of the 3rd Asian Beach Games in Haiyang, Shandong  Province, China, some 90 minutes drive from the 2008 Olympic Sailing Centre in Qingdao.

13 sports will be competing during the Games between 16th and 22nd of June 2012 for some 49 gold medals

Waterskiing was included in the 2nd Asian Beach Games in Muscat, Oman and is delighted to be included in Haiyang 2012. Approximately 70 men and women trick skiers and wakeboard riders will compete over three days commencing on 20th until 22nd of June for four gold medals.

Unlike Oman where the competition was held on the sea, the site in Haiyang is spectacular, located at the Jiulong Lake Reservoir in the Zhaohu Mountain National Forest Park.  The site will be shared with dragon boating whose competition commences on the 17th and concludes on the 19th of June.

With the support of the Haiyang Asian Beach Games Organising Committee (HABGOC) and Nautique, the trick event will be pulled by a 2012 Ski Nautique 200 CB, whilst the wakeboarders will ride behind a 2012 Super Air Nautique 210. Nautique are also providing regional and USA technical support.  

The opening ceremony commences on Saturday the 16th of June with a closing ceremony bringing the curtain down on the Games on the evening of Friday 22nd of June 2012