BAREFOOT
SKIERS OF THE YEAR 2009
FEMALE
SKIER
Ashleigh
Stebbeings –
The
Barefoot World Tiles is a combined event that
includes the Open, Junior and Senior Titles.
Ashleigh
Kate Stebbeings is only 16 years old and she
competed in both the Open and Junior Titles.
Ashleigh
won every event in both Championships.
Ashleigh
won eight Gold Medals and contributed 6000
team overall points at the 2009 World Titles a
PERFECT
SCORE.
She is
the ONLY athlete in our sport, male or female, to
ever do this.
2009
World Championships EIGHT GOLD MEDALS!
Open
Women: 1st Overall, 1st Trick, 1st Slalom,
1st Jump
Junior
Girls: 1st Overall, 1st Trick, 1st Slalom,
1st Jump
2009
World Games 1st Place Trick & Slalom, 2nd place Overall
& Jump.
World
Ranking (At time of Writing this proposal)Open Women - #1 Overall, #1
Trick,
#1
Slalom, #2 Jump
Confederation
Ranking #1 Open Women in All Events & Overall
New
Personal Bests - All set in 2009 Trick – 3100, Slalom – 14.4,
Jump – 15.5M
New
Skills Learned Reverse 180 Surface turns B-F & F-B, Basic
360 surface turns F-F and
B-B,
Toe Back 180, Toe Front 180
Contributions
to the Sport
Ashleigh
has consistently been the top Female barefoot skier in the World since 2005.
Assists at training camps and an active participation in encouraging
others.
Through
the training clinics offered by her and her family Ashleigh brings many new
skiers into
our sport every year.
MALE
SKIER
Keith
St. Onge -
St. Onge is once again proving he is the most dominant
international force in Barefoot Waterskiing. He turned
in
another unbelievable performance in 2009, repeating as
the
World Overall Champion in
reset the world trick record, this time at an amazing
11,250
and he retains a stranglehold on the world record in
Wake
Slalom.
St. Onge also turned in an incredible performance at the
World
Games in
victory, as well as winning the individual Gold Overall
medal
on the international stage.
2008
World Championships held in 2009 – 1st Overall, 1st Slalom.
1st Tricks, 3rd Jump
World Games 2009 - 1st Overall, 1st Slalom. 1st Tricks,
4th Jump
World
Ranking – not finalised, but anticipated:
1st
Overall, 1st Slalom, 1st Trick, 3rd Jump
World
Records Currently holds the World Slalom (20.6) and Trick (11,250) records
Confederation
Ranking: 1st Overall, 1st Trick, 1st Slalom, 1st Jump
New
Personal Bests: 12,650 Tricks, 25.7 Jump (25.8 was back in 1998)
New
Skills Learned: The best new skill that he has learned this year,
is the ability to combine
the most difficult barefoot tricks into a 15 second
routine at standards that the world has never
witnessed.
Contributions
to the sport
Keith
travels the world teaching and promoting the sport, yes It Is his business, but
he does it
with a great personal touch. He is regarded as the
best in the world by an over whelming
majority of his peers. He has sponsored many tournaments,
clinics around the world and is
the premier sponsor of the 2010 World Championships.
CABLE
WAKEBOARD RIDERS OF THE YEAR 2009
FEMALE
RIDER
Mayanka Jansen -
Mayanka's performance would be highly ranked in Open
ladies as well, but she chooses to ride
with her friends in Juniors. She's also one of the
few international judges of her age (17).
RANKING
– WORLD 1st in Junior
ladies with 3580 points
RANKING
– EAME no EA rankings, but she would also be 1st in Junior ladies
RANKING
– NATIONAL 1st in Junior Ladies, 2nd in
Open ladies
WORLD MEDAL? 1st in Junior ladies at last World in 2008
EAME MEDAL? 2nd in Junior ladies
NATIONAL MEDAL? 1st in Junior ladies
DETAILS
OF OTHER COMPETITION
RESULTS
Once 1st and 3
times 2nd at international registered events
in 2009
MALE
RIDER
Dominik Gührs –
Another wunderkind conquering the Open category and still junior by
age. A valued member of
the community, sets a great example for the kids on
the water.
RANKING
– WORLD 2nd in Open men with 2532 points
RANKING
– EAME no EA rankings, but he would also be 2nd in
Open
men
RANKING
– NATIONAL 1st in Open men with 2532 points
WORLD MEDAL? ---
EAME MEDAL? 1st in
Open men
NATIONAL MEDAL? 1st in
Open men
DETAILS
OF OTHER COMPETITION RESULTS twice 2nd and
once 3rd at international
registered events in 2009
DISABLED
SKIERS OF THE YEAR 2009
FEMALE
SKIER
Delphine Le Sausse -
Multiple Plegic 3 –
At the
September World Disabled Championships in
under challenging conditions (imagine a river with
concrete
walls on both sides!), Delphine
was hugely successful in
the largest female category, competing against Great
Adaline Fahey. In that category, she won the overall and
slalom titles along with silvers in jump and tricks,
greatly
helping
In the
prestigious tournament individual overall combining
all disability categories, she placed second among
women, an amazing achievement. Paralleling those
performances, her EAME ranking, also all disability
categories combined, was first in slalom and third in
tricks and jump. She even competed in an able-bodied
event in the fall running 2/43/18.25m, a potential
world
record, a score that was subsequently lowered to
0.5/43/18.25m due to video issues.
MALE
SKIER
Craig Timm - Arm Amputee -
At the
September World Disabled Championships in
challenging conditions (imagine a river with
concrete walls on both
sides!), Craig twice broke a twenty year old world
jump record as
the last skier at the tournament on the water and
helped cement a
of his two jumps were the same with both exceeding
the existing
world record, and the record has been accepted. Each
jumper was
only allowed two jumps because of safety concerns due
to
backwash if a third jump were taken. He also won gold in
slalom,
with his points going towards the
overall and a silver in tricks. Finally, in the prestigious
tournament
individual overall combining
all disability categories, he
placed second. A week later, at an RC event in
world slalom record, records that have just recently
been
approved. He also tied his week old jump record in that
same tournament, thus three world records set and two
of his own tied in the space of a few weeks.
RACING
SKIERS OF THE YEAR 2009
FEMALE
SKIER
Kim
Lumley –
Kim
Lumley is an extraordinary athlete. She has dominated GB and
European
Ladies competition in the Ski Racing division for almost a
decade. She has held the European Title many times and
of course
the GB National Title.
In
2005 she won the Open Women WORLD TITLE at Hunstanton,
GB,
holding off the mighty challenges of
deemed very unlucky not to retain her title in
taking Silver.
Over
the last 8 years she has won the arduous Catalina Island Race,
60
miles on the Pacific, no less than 7 times, and the only European
Lady ever to win. She won Catalina in 2009 and
followed that up
with a flawless performance in July at the 2009 World
Racing
Championships,
winning all four tough canal/river races in arguably
the toughest possible conditions worldwide, to
clinch a most worthy
World
Championship Gold to stamp her authority on the Sport as
the undoubted World Number One in securing her
Second World Title.
A
Truly Extraordinary Performance by an Extraordinary Skier
MALE
SKIER
Wayne Mawer –
2009
Men's Open World Champion
2009
Australian Men's Champion
the
1997
World Water Ski Racing Championship and successfully competed
in the wakeboard division; winning 2 World
Championships .
He
came out of retirement in 2007 for the 2007 Diamond Race which
he won.
After
competing in local races in
enter in the selection series to represent
Racing Championships. His boat
experienced mechanical difficulties in the
first two races but
five Selection Races as well as the Men's Open
Australian
Championship. He was selected as the number one skier
for the
Australian
Team, a remarkable performance after more than a
ten year retirement.
TOURNAMENT
SKIERS OF THE YEAR 2009
FEMALE
SKIER
Whitney
McClintock –
Whitney
had the unique accomplishment of being the World Champion in both the U21
Championships
and the Open World Championships in Overall, Slalom, and Tricks. Her list of
tournament podium placements is unparalleled in recent
times:
2009
World Champion Women Overall
2009
World Champion Women Slalom
2009
World Champion Women Tricks
2009
World U21 Champion Women Overall
2009
World U21 Champion Women Slalom
2009
World U21 Champion Women Tricks
2009
World U21 Championships Women Jump Silver Medal
2009
Masters Champion Women Tricks
2009
Masters Women Slalom
2009
MALE
SKIER
Javier
Julio –
Javier
has always been an outstanding Overall skier and 2009 was the year he finally
achieved
his crowning accomplishment of being World Overall
Champion. In 2009 Javier also won all
event titles and overall at the 2009 LatinAmerican Championships and is the reigning Pan
American
Overall and slalom champion.
Javier
is one of only 3 skiers to be on all three Elite Ranking Lists, another rare
accomplishment.