Patricio Font  (Mexico) – Waterskiing

Patricio Font , a 17 year old full-time student, won trick titles at the Nautique Junior Moomba Masters, US Masters and IWWF World Open Waterski Championships in 2019.  He was youngest Mexican to win a gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru.  Font broke the world junior trick record 7 times in 2019, most recently shattering the 12,000 point barrier. In December, Patricio was named as the men’s NextGen winner, the prize awarded to the best athlete under-20, at the at the inaugural Panam Sports Awards.

David Small  (Great Britain) – Barefoot

Confederation Rankings:
World: 1st Overall Open Mens

IWWF Europe & Africa: 1st Overall Open Mens

2018 Tournament Bests:
13,800 – Tricks
20.0 – Slalom
29.7m – Jump

Tournaments skied this season:
4 National tournaments, and 1 International.

2018 Achievements:
Men’s International U.S National Champion.
Open Men’s World Champion in Slalom, Jump, and Overall.
Set pending trick records of 12,950, 13,250, 13,350, and 13,800.
Broke the World Trick Record at 13,350 (Current Record).
Won his first ever World Slalom title, now earning him a spot as one of the now five Men (Other four being
Brett Wing, Mike Seipel, Ron Scarpa, and Keith St. Onge) to have won an IWWF Open Barefoot Worlds

TOURNAMENT
2017 Water Skier of the Year – Male
Ryan Dodd – CAN

1st place at the 2017 Nautique Masters whit a distance of 74.1m
1st place at the 2017 Vladimir Filin Memorial whit a distance of 75.4m
1st place at the 2017 Canadian Open Masters whit a distance of 68.7m
1st place at the 2017 Strokes Pro Am whit a distance of 71.9m
1st place at the 2017 World Open Champ. whit a distance of 68.4m

Along the way, he set a new World Record of 77.4 m at the Space Coast tournament in July

Current Elite ranking: 1st
Current IWWF ranking: 1st
World Open Championships: 1st in 2017

Ryan Dodd had a breakout year in 2017. He won every single Elite Tournament jump event except for an early season 2nd place at Moomba. His wins include the Masters, the Vladimir Filin Memorial, the Ray Stokes Pro Am, the Canadian Open and finally the World Championships. He also placed 1st in every other tournament entered in 2017. Ryan also acts as the Pan American skier representative on the Athletes Advisory Council to the IWWF Tournament Council as well as being involved in tournament promotion and organization.

BAREFOOT
2016 Barefoot Water Skier of the Year – Male
David Small – GBR

Barefoot Skier David Small (GBR) had his first Barefoot lesson in chilly waters in Birmingham, England. Currently living in Winter Haven, Florida, his international reputation really began with his first Barefoot Overall title in 1999 at the Junior World Barefoot Championships in Texas. This was followed in 2002, 2004, 2010, 2012 and 2014 with Open Men’s World Championships Gold Medals. In 2016, he added yet another Overall World Barefoot Champion title to his already distinguished career. Currently holding World Records in both Jump and Tricks, he has now set no less than five pending 2016 Tricks records of 12,850, 13,150, 13,300, 13,300 and 14,050. Taking first place at the 2016 World Barefoot Championships in Tricks, Slalom and Overall, David Small’s consistency over the years has been quite phenomenal. This keen Skydiver and Motor Cyclist who owns the World Barefoot Centre in Winter Haven, Florida, now adds the title of 2016 IWWF Athlete of the Year to his very distinguished collection.

TOURNAMENT
2015 Water Skier of the Year – Male
Adam Sedlmajer – CZE

2015 Overall World Champion

2015 World Championships 2nd place in tricks;

E&A Open Championships 2015- 1st place in Overall, 3d place in Slalom

World Ranking list- 1st Open Men Overall
Elite Ranking List men tricks 2015- 3rd
Malibu Open: Jump 4th

Adam Sedlmajer (CZE) is the strongest Overall skier in Europe and in the World. In 2015 he won both the World and E&A Overall titles and has risen to the top in Overall in both the World and E&A Ranking lists.

Athlete of the year – 2014
Cableski
Alexander Vasko – Slovak Republic

Alexander Vasko is only 20 years old and is one of the top Cableski skiers, but this year was extremely good for him. The climax of the year for him was the Cableski World Championships. In the preliminary round he broke the 9 year old Cableski World Jump record from Thomas Bauer (63.8m), with an incredible jump of 64.2 meter. This record set the pace for the jump finals and the skiers went for it with a thriller of the finals as a result. Still Alexander proved he is the best jumper this year winning the World title in addition of his new World Record.
But Alexander is not only a great jumper, he is just a very good overall skier. At the Cableski Worlds in addition to the gold medal in jumping, he also took silver in tricks and bronze in overall.
On the Cableski Ranking List he is first in jump and overall and places fourth in tricks and fifth in slalom.

In addition to the World Championships, Alexander placed second in jump at the First Cableski World Cup in Shanghai – China, with only Nikita Papakul being able to beat Alexander. At the grand prix of cable in Asten, Austria Alexander ended first in jump, and second in tricks, behind a topper like Ilya Labkovic, and in slalom, after the almost unbeatable Nadav Ativ, just once again a proof of his great shape this year and his skills as a great overall skier.

World Champion Jump
New World record with 64.2 m
First E&A Ranking List jump
First World Ranking List jump
Open Men Slovak tricks, jump and overall Champion (slalom second)

2013 World Champion
2013 Tied World Slalom record
2013 Set new Slalom World Record

#1 IWWF Ranking Slalom
#1 Elite Ranking

2013 Moomba Masters Men Slalom 8
2013 Atlanta ProAm Men Slalom 1
2013 Malibu Open Men Slalom 1
2013 Masters Men Slalom 2
2013 Mastercraft Pro Shootout Men Slalom 1
2013 Diablo Shores Pro Am Men Slalom 1
2013 Sunset Lakes Fall Classic Men Slalom 1
2013 Orlando Extreme Watersports Festival Men Slalom 1

In an incredible 2010 season Dave set the current World Jump and Trick records at:
29.9m
12,150 pts

2010 World Championships
1st Overall
1st Jump
2nd Tricks
3rd Slalom

World Ranking
1st Overall
1st Jump
2nd Trick
3rd Slalom

Confederation Ranking
1st Overall
1st Trick
2nd Slalom
1st Jump

Confederation Records
Tricks, 12,150 and Jump 29.9m.

New Personal Bests
12,150 Tricks
29.8 Jump

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 New Zealand. He once again 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 Taiwan helping bring the U.S. team to 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.

Jaret Llewellyn CAN IWSF 2008 Male Athlete of the Year

Jaret Llewellyn CAN IWSF 2007 Male Athlete of the Year

Three Pending World Records
Four Gold Medals
2006 World Overall Champion!

Keith won his first ever World Overall Title this season. At the tournament he placed First in EVERY round of Slalom and Every round of Tricks earning himself Gold medals in those events while becoming the Overall World Champion. He broke the World Trick Record EVERY round. A feat that has NEVER been done.

Earlier in the Year Keith set the World Slalom Record at 20.6 points. A record that had stood longer than any other in barefoot Water Skiing (12 Years).

Keith’s 2006 Resume for Athletic Achievement goes unchallenged.

It was a year of firsts for trick specialist Nicolas Leforestier.

2005 World Tricks Champion
2005 World Cup Champion
New World Record 12,400 points at the Boesch Open Tricks Vallee De Joux, in Switzerland
The 46th Masters Trick Champion
World Cup Dubna 2005 Trick Champion
World Cup Enniskillen Trick Champion
French Masters Trick Champion
#1 2005 Elite Trick Ranking

2004 Male Skier of the Year

2004 World Cup Tricks Silver Medal
2004 World Cup Jump Silver Medal
Pan Am Championships Men Jump Champion
Malibu Open Men Jump Champion
Pan Am Championships Men Tricks Champion
Holden Cross 8 Moomba Masters Men Jump Silver Medal
World Cup Dubna Men Jump Silver Medal
MasterCraft Pro Tour Men Jump Bronze Medal
World Cup Dubna Men Tricks Bronze Medal
World Cup Changshu Men Tricks Bronze Medal
World Cup Doha Men Tricks Silver Medal
IWSF World Ranking #6 Tricks
IWSF World Ranking #3 Jump
IWSF World Ranking #2 Overall

Christophe, a multiple plegics MP3 sit skier, had a tremendous season.
He scored at least two buoys at 49kph on the outer, regulation course, just a few buoys less than the world record at that speed, in five EuroTour stops, 3 EAME open tournaments and the World Championships. In tricks, he exceeded the world record more than once (all reduced on video review) as well as setting an EAME jump record of 20.2 meters. In the final EuroTour standings, he placed first in overall and second in tricks and jump. The culmination of his season was his superb overall victory in the largest and most hotly contested division at the World Championships in Florida where he also placed first in slalom, second in tricks and fifth in jump. That was on the water. On land, he served as Tournament Director at two of the six EuroTour stops, homologated 4 competitions, passed his J1 (Senior Judge) exam – the highest rating, designed new slalom skis for the disabled and conducted training camps for the Belgian, German and French ski teams.

Jaret Llewellyn recieves his award plaque from IWSF President Kuno Ritschard at the Australand Moomba Masters.