With the 43rd Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup Stop scheduled for this weekend in the beautiful Indian Ocean City of Mandurah in Western Australia, approaching weather systems are causing some concerns. Only once in it’s successful history has the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) had to alter it’s World Cup programme. That was in Changshu China almost ten years ago ! The weekend Action Sports Games activities will also include FMX, BMX, Scooter and Skate.

With thunderstorms and rain forecasted for this coming Saturday and Sunday, one option being considered is to bring forward part of the World Cup schedule to Friday, March 13th. Temperatures are set to drop from 33C to 25C. An announcement is expected shortly. The Official Opening Ceremony is scheduled for 18.30hrs onsite on Friday. This will be attended by Hon Dr Kim Hames, MLA, Deputy Premier and Minister for Health and Tourism, the City of Mandurah Mayor Marina Vergone and many other dignatories.

Waterski and Wakeboard athletes from 21 countries will take part, including Argentina, Australia, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Denmark, Finland, France, Great Britain, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Sweden, Thailand and USA. Following their gold medal successes in last weekend’s Moomba Masters in Melbourne, the entry will include Freddy Krueger USA, Jacinta Carroll AUS and Harley Clifford AUS. Krueger and Carroll took the Waterski Jump titles in Melbourne and Clifford the Wakeboard title. All will push hard to make it two major successes in a row, weather permitting. As it happens, all three will also defend their 2014 Mandurah World Cup titles this weekend. Raimi Merritt USA will also take part as the Mandurah Wakeboard 2014 defending champion.

Mastercraft have provided the competition boats and support services for all 42 World Cup Stops to date and will do so once again this weekend.

The provisional World Cup timetable still stands till further notice :

FRIDAY

07.00 – 14.30  Official Practice

SATURDAY

09.15 – 13.45  Semi-Finals Men & Women Jump

13.45 – 16.15  Quarter-Finals Men Wakeboard

16.15 – 17.45  LCQ Wakeboard Women

18.00 – 18.30  Show Ski WA Display

SUNDAY

08.30 – 10.30  LCQ Wakeboard Men

10.30 – 11.20  Final Women Jump

11.30 – 12.30  Final Men Jump

12.30 – 14.30  Semi-Finals Wakeboard Men

14.30 – 15.30  Finals Wakeboard Women

15.30 – 16.30  Finals Wakeboard Men

17.00 – 17.30  Award Presentations

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Live scores will be available throughout at : http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/classic/competitions/2014

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With WORLD CUP number 43 just a few weeks away in the beautiful City of Mandurah in Western Australia #MandurahWorldCup and #ActionSportsGames, this is the start of a very exciting adventure which is heading our way this year. Who knows, we may even reach the magical 50 Stops mark very soon and that will be a really historical “first” for our sport as far as global events are concerned.

Here are the confirmed #WORLDCUP Stops as of February 10th 2015 – and we may even see more as we move ahead !

It is also great this year to see the fantastic mix of events – Wakeboard, Slalom, Shortboard, Jump, Cable Slalom, Cable Tricks and Cable Jump, and Cable Wakeboard.

Watch out for some interesting action Photo Albums on our Facebook Page :

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When the International Olympic Committee (IOC) invited the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) to make a presentation to its Main Board a year ago about Cable Wakeboard and its Olympics potential, the worldwide boom in the opening of new Cable Waterparks was already catching international headlines. With such low cost facilities announced almost daily, the Olympic Lakes in Beijing and Barcelona have already added these youth focussed facilities to improve their own legacy impact.

This coming weekend, October 3/5, the successful World Cup Series of the IWWF will be in the headlines once again. History will be made when for the first time, a Cable Waterski discipline will take centre stage at this 42nd Stop of the Series. The location of the Rixen Cable system will be Bihai Jinsha Water Park on the outskirts of Shanghai. The city’s 14 million population will certainly have a new attraction to enjoy. Located in the Fengxian District, this area has one of the few high quality white sand beaches in the region. The sand was shipped there from Hainan Province! Temperatures of 75F / 24C are forecast with sunny skies.

Chinese Water Ski Association is the official organiser. The event will be operated by the State Water Sports Development Co. Ltd. Cable Waterskiers from 17 countries will compete for World Cup titles in both Slalom and Jump. Show Ski Wakeboard will also be featured. The countries will include Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, China, Great Britain, Greece, Indonesia, Iran, Mexico, Israel, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Russia, Slovakia and USA.

Included this weekend will be four newly crowned Cableski World Champions. Having received their gold medals in Schloss Dankern Germany just a few days ago, the following World Champions will take part – Alexander Vasko (SVK) and Irina Turets (BLR) in Jump, plus Simon Herrmann (GER) and Bianca Schall (AUT) in Slalom. Alexander Vasko also set a new pending World Jump Record last Saturday of 64.2m. This will certainly add to the level of competition at the weekend.

Although this will be the first ever Cable Waterski World Cup Stop, four athletes will benefit from having already competed in Boat World Cup Jump events in the past – Vladimir Ryanzin and Olga Pavlova (RUS), Irina Turets (BLR) and Marie Vympranietsova (GRE). This experience may well help them to get to next Sunday’s World Cup podium. Live results will be posted throughout on the Link below. On this occasion, there will not be a Webcast. Photos and reports will be posted on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

The timetable for this coming weekend will be :

FRIDAY October 3rd
09.00 –  Opening Ceremony at the Lake
10.00 – 13.00 – Slalom Round 1
13.00 – 14.00 – Lunch Break
14.00 – 14.30 – Wakeboard Show
14.30 – 16.30 – Jump Round 1

SATURDAY October 4th
09.30 – 12.30 – Slalom Round 2
12.30 – 13.30 – Lunch Break
13.30 – 14.30 – Wakeboard Show
14.30 – 16.30 – Jump Round 2

SUNDAY October 5th
09.30 – 11.30 – Finals Slalom
11.30 – 12.30 – Lunch Break
12.30 – 14.00 – Finals Jump
14.00 – 14.30 – Wakeboard Show
14.30 – Award Ceremony
15.00 – Artistic Performance at the Lake

LIVE RESULTS & TIMETABLE

http://www.iwwfed-ea.org/cableski/14CHNC01/

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ALL SIGN UP FOR EYRES ACTION SPORTS GAMES

The EYRES Action Sports Games, scheduled for March 16/18 in Mandurah, promises to be one of the most exciting World Cup challenges for some time. Apart from the anticipated 100,000 spectators on site, this 33^rd Stop of the Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup series has already received confirmed entries from every relevant current World Champion and World Record holder in Waterski Jump and Shortboard and also in Wakeboard. Add to this the 3,000 hours of annual sunshine of Mandurah, and we now have the perfect combination to guarantee outstanding performances and great memories.

In Wakeboard, World Champions Harley Clifford AUS and Raimi Merrit USA must be hot favorites to dominate. They earned those titles in Italy last Summer. They were also elected 2011 Riders of the Year by the IWWF. Both won the World Cup Stop in Sarawak, Malaysia last season. Clifford added to this the Wakeboard World Cup title in Linyi, China, in September. As this Mandurah Stop will be the first major event of 2012 for these World Cup Wakeboard champions, all eyes will be on Australia’s Amber Wing as the challenger. She took the World Cup title in Linyi, China, ahead of Raimi Merrit, and will push hard to show her home spectators who is the champion ! Past World Wakeboard Champion Andrew Adkison USA, who is always a serious contender, will be in Mandurah to challenge Harley Clifford’s dominance. Will we have two Oz Champions this time around ?  It might just happen.

With two Waterski events included, Jump and Shortboard, again the world’s best athletes are already on this high quality entry list. Both current World Jump champions, Freddy Krueger USA and Natalia Berdnikova BLR, will test the Jump Ramp at speeds exceeding 100kph. Krueger and Berdnikova also happen to be the holders of the current World Jump Records. As ever, there will be very strong competition. Krueger has had an outstanding career to date. Last season alone he had 10 podium successes, including 7 gold medal awards. He broke the World Jump Record seven times since 1999. Berdnikova is also on a roll. Although her new World Jump Record set last October was her first in the Jump discipline, she also set an Overall World Record. She has so far broken the Shortboard World Record three times. Snapping at her heels in Jump in Mandurah will be Australia’s young sensation Jacinta Carroll from Geelong and Denmark’s star Maj Lund Jepsen. This will be another spectacular battle in the EYRES Action Sports Games.

Finally, the Shortboard event will certainly be a thriller. Here we will have current World Champion and World Record holder Aliaksei Zharnasek BLR and again World Champion Natalia Berdnikova BLR. Zharnasek set the new World Record last April at 12,570 points and is in top form. He took the Record from Nicolas LeForestier FRA who is pushing hard to recover from injury in time for Mandurah but might not make it. Berdnikova will be even more focused than ever as she lost the World Shortboard Record to Clementine Lucine FRA just five months ago. She will be totally committed to getting it back again. Bring your cameras to this World Cup stop and you will certainly capture some very special moments.

This 33^rd World Cup Stop will be the first for Mandurah in launching its four-year agreement with the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation. Eventscorp, the events division of Tourism Western Australia, has the full support of Tourism Minister Kim Hames and the Minister for Regional Development, Brendon Grylls, in the staging of this World Cup Stop. MasterCraft will again be the Official Boat Sponsors and they too will celebrate their 33^rd time in doing this ! The EYRES Action Sports Games will also feature BMX, Skateboarding and Freestyle Motocross, with a shootout between Australia and New Zealand.

The World Cup Timetable for the weekend of March 16/18 will be circulated shortly, together with the Webcast arrangements for our global World Cup fans.

For those seeking Media Accreditation, please see the attached applications form.

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Chuncheon in South Korea hosted the final successful Stop of 2010

The City of Liuzhou will host its first World Cup Stop in the south west of China
Events : Jump and Wakeboard
http://english.liuzhou.gov.cn

Putrajaya will host its second World Cup Stop at this magnificent site outside Kuala Lumpur
Events : Slalom, Shortboard and Jump
http://www.waterski.com.my