Wayne Grimditch


Wayne Grimditch has been both a competitor with major 
international accomplishments and an influential ambassador 
who has helped to advance water skiing as a sport for 
millions of television viewers.

Wayne competed as a member of the United States team in 
four World Championships from 1969 to 1975 and as one of 
two U.S. men invited to compete in the 1972 Olympic 
demonstration in Kiel. In the process he won eight World 
medals, including two gold medals in jumping and one in tricks.

Although Wayne has every right to regard himself as a strong 
overall skier, it was in jumping that he achieved his greatest 
recognition. He set his first World record in 1972 and held the 
record continuously through 1979.

In 1978 Wayne won the ABC Television Superstars competition, 
which pitted him against top competitors in several better-known 
sports in a variety of athletic activities from running to cycling. 
In three years of this televised competition Wayne proved that an 
overall water skier developed skills that would qualify him as being 
among the most versatile of athletes. Following his competitive 
career Wayne entertained and instructed even more viewers as a 
color commentator for televised water ski tour events.

I am pleased to announce the induction into the International 
Hall of Fame of one of the sport's outstanding overall skiers 
and most effective ambassadors: Wayne Grimditch.