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This first World Cup Stop of the 2013 season was a thriller with some extraordinary final results. On this occasion Athletes from both Australia and the USA dominated in an event which attracted contestants from 23 countries. These included world champions and world record holders in Wakeboard, Jump and Shortboard. With temperatures of 32C and sunny blue skies, the City of Mandurah provided an exceptional atmosphere in magnificent surroundings. The Dolphins, Pelicans, surrounding Marinas and Restaurants added to the special sense of occasion !

In Men’s Wakeboard and Men’s Jump, the almost unbeatable superstars Harley Clifford AUS and Freddy Krueger USA rose to the top once again but not without incident and some other surprises along the way.

In Wakeboard, Harley Clifford, seeded number one, was almost caught by seed three, Shota Tezuka from Japan. In the final scoring after much deliberation by the World Cup judges, the reigning Mandurah Stop Champion Clifford won by less than three points – a very close shave. Daniel Powers USA secured third place also with a great performance. This battle will certainly continue at the next World Cup Stop in Palembang, Indonesia.

Jumper Freddy Krueger also had to pull out all the stops to get ahead of Canada’s Ryan Dodd. Dodd’s jump distance of 59.7m looked like the winner in the Finals. Being last off the dock, so often we have seen Krueger faced with an apparent impossible task. On this occasion, he completed it with real class. Having perfectly sized up the Indian Ocean tidal current, wind direction and tactics of the other five Finalists, yet again he rose to the challenge with an outstanding distance of 62.2m to win by just 2.5m. Although he was suffering from a cold, Canada’s Ryan Dodd believed this Mandurah World Cup title could have been his. Again, this gripping battle will certainly continue at the forthcoming Palembang, Indonesia, World Cup Stop. In another extraordinary performance, Scot Ellis USA, a Junior World Champion back in 1988, yet again took a Jump podium place in capturing the bronze medal.

In Women’s Wakeboard, Australia again greatly impressed. The National Champion and World Cup bronze medalist from 2012, 23 year-old Bec Gange from Mildura, Victoria, stunned the spectators in out-scoring a field which included the talented World Champion, Raimi Merrit USA. With two falls on this rare occasion, Merrit was out of the podium this time. Nicola Butler GBR, who took the bronze medal position in last year’s Indonesia World Cup Stop, rose to the silver medal position here in Mandurah, closely followed by Sweden’s Caroline Djupso.

With Australian athletes showing exceptional strength at this Mandurah World Cup Stop, expectations were again high for Women’s Jump. Jacinta Carroll, the twenty-year-old University student from Geelong, Victoria, missed much of the 2012 season due to injury. Now fully recovered, she took second place a week ago at Melbourne’s Moomba Masters. Marion Mathieu FRA was in the lead with a distance of 43.7m as Carroll took to the water. Showing exceptional determination, she powered her way to a whopping distance of 46.3m to dominate the field. Lauren Morgan USA, the University World Jump Champion again impressed all in taking the bronze medal here.

The Shortboard / Tricks event was also loaded with drama. In the women’s Finals, the 17 year-old sensation from Arizona, Erika Lang USA, was already on a winning streak. She captured the gold medal one week ago at Melbourne’s Moomba Masters. Here she was again taking on World Record holder Clementine Lucine FRA. However, 19 year-old Iris Cambray FRA immediately took all by surprise by scoring 8440 points first off the dock. Lucine came up 300 points below this when Lang finally entered the fray. Having the advantage in being last to compete knowing that Cambray’s score was still the one to beat, somehow she managed to find an extra 100 points to take this World Cup gold medal. Watch out for the name Erika Lang in the years to come.

The Men’s Shortboard event followed exactly the same pattern as the women’s. First off the dock, the reigning World Record Holder Alaiksei Zharnasek BLR scored a very impressive 10,010 points, raising the bar right from the start. It looked unbeatable. However, Jimmy Siemers USA, with past World Cup gold medals to his credit from Doha Qatar, and Putrajaya Malaysia, got an ovation for his 10,140 score. This extra 30 points was enough for him to take the 2013 Mandurah World Cup Shortboard title. Zharnasek took Silver and 17 year-old Joshua Briant AUS greatly impressed in taking the World Cup bronze medal.

The Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup Series is organized by the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF). This 36^th Stop was supported by Government of Western Australia, Regional Development and Lands, Royalties for Regions, Eventscorp, City of Mandurah, EYRES and MasterCraft.

At the World Cup Award Ceremony, Mandurah City Mayor Paddi Creevey congratulated the winners and confirmed that the World Cup series will return again in March 2014 to this beautiful location on the Western Australian shores of the Indian Ocean.

Archived coverage of the entire Mandurah World Cup Stop is available at :

www.IWWF.tv

What a day we had today here in beautiful Mandura in Western Australia on the edge of the Indian Ocean. With blue skies and 33C temperatures it was a perfect holiday weekend for our World Cup Skiers, Riders and thousands of spectators.

All is set now for the Sunday Finals. For all the results, here is the link :

WORLD CUP RESULTS

The leaders at this critical point are :

JUMP : FREDDY KRUEGER USE & JACINTA CARROLL AUS

SHORTBOARD : ALEXANDRE POTEAU FRA & ERIKA LANG USA

WAKEBOARD : HARLEY CLIFFORD AUS & RAIMI MERRIT USA

The LIVE Webcast is available at :

WORLD CUP WEBCAST

We are just hours away from the start of the 36th World Cup Stop in Mandurah, Western Australia – all part of the EYES Action Sports Games.

Now the big battle begins against the world’s very best Riders who have qualified for this Stop. It is a very special group of talented athletes and with Harley Clifford AUS and Raimi Merritt USA involved, outstanding performances are guaranteed. Watch out also for the world’s best Trickers and Jumpers. Freddy Kruger USA and Clementine Lucine FRA are also here to defend their amazing host of titles and World Records.

Here is your FREE Webcast Link :  WORLD CUP WEBCAST

 This has been the hottest summer on record in Western Australia. Even the local Indian Ocean sea reached new temperature levels. With 34C forecasted for this 36^th Waterski & Wakeboard World Cup Stop this coming weekend, the anticipated 140,000 plus spectators will enjoy the very best Wakeboarders and Waterskiers skills in glorious sunshine. Running along side will be action packed BMX and Skate Board competitions, plus Free Style Motocross – and all will take place during the annual Channel Seven Crab Fest. Mandurah has certainly provided something for extreme sports fans, their supporters and thousands of families in this wonderful seaside location. Even the local Dolphins came to watch last year !

On this coming Thursday, the EYRES Action Sports Games Press Conference will introduce Waterski Jumper Freddy Krueger USA, Waterski Shortboarder Clementine Lucine FRA and Wakeboarder Harley Clifford AUS, to the Media at 11.00hrs at the Western Foreshore, Mandurah. Each will also provide a full action packed demonstration on the water. All three are the defending Mandura World Cup Stop champions. Krueger is the current World Jump Champion, holds the World Record of 75.2m, has broken the World Record seven times and just last weekend, took the gold medal at Melbourne’s Moomba Masters. Lucine is the only woman in the world to have ever scored more than 10,000 points in Shortboard and holds the current World Record at 10,040. She has already broken the World Record four times. Brisbane’s super star Clifford is also the defending Mandurah World Cup Stop Wakeboard Champion, has won World Cup Stops in Palembang Indonesia, Sarawak Borneo, Linyi China plus many others, and is almost unbeatable at this time. In a sport which has an estimated 50 million participants, all three athletes are certain to thrill the Mandurah spectators this weekend. Twenty-three countries will be represented on the water.

MasterCraft will again provide the World Cup boats and the required technical support. This they have done every year since the inception of the World Cup series in 2004.

An edited World Cup TV show will be distributed globally following this weekend. The transmission hours will be closely monitored to assist future World Cup planning and sponsors.

The free Mandurah World Cup Stop Webcast will be available throughout from this coming Friday at : www.IWWF.tv

The official Timetable is as follows :

FRIDAY March 15

07.30  Jump – Women’s Semi-Finals

08.45  Shortboard – Women’s Semi-Finals

09.45  Shortboard – Men’s Semi-Finals

11.30  Wakeboard – Practice

SATURDAY March 16

07.30  Jump – Men’s Semi-Finals

10.00  Wakeboard – Men’s Quarter Finals

13.30  Wakeboard – Women’s Semi-Finals

15.30  Wakeboard – Men’s Last Chance Qualifier

17.30  Wakeboard – Women’s Last Chance Qualifier

SUNDAY March 17

08.30  Shortboard – Women’s Final

09.10  Shortboard – Men’s Final

10.00  Jump – Women’s Final

10.40  Jump – Men’s Final

11.45  Wakeboard – Men’s Semi-Finals

13.45  Wakeboard – Women’s Finals

14.45  Wakeboard – Men’s Finals

16.00  Wakeboard – Double-Up Competition

17.00  Award Presentations on site

The Government of Western Australia, Department of Regional Development and Lands, Royalties for Regions, Eventscorp, City of Mandurah, EYRES, MasterCraft and the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation, have all combined efforts to make this a very special occasion on Western Australia’s annual calendar. The World Cup Series will return again to Mandurah in 2014 and 2015 as confirmed by Mayor Paddi Casey this time last year.

THE MOOMBA MASTERS STARS IN ACTION !

FULL WEBCAST FOR EYRES ACTION SPORTS GAMES NEXT WEEKEND

With Melbourne’s Moomba Masters completed late last night, right now the 2013 Gold Medalists are packing their bags to catch their flights from Melbourne to Western Australia’s Mandurah World Cup Stop – the 36th in the Series. As the very first World Cup Stop of the season, this will now also be the first event to see the very recently crowned Moomba Stars in action !

With Wakeboard, Shortboard and Jump, the newly crowned Moomba champions have just got enough time to catch their breath before the coming weekend’s extravaganza in Mandurah – a short drive south of Perth. Those carrying Gold Medals to Mandurah will be Freddy Krueger USA and Jutta Lammi FIN in Jump, Harley Clifford AUS  in Wakeboard, plus Herman Beliakou BLR and Erika Lang USA in Shortboard. Now the battle begins for the first World Cup medals of 2013. Can they repeat their success of yesterday – see below how you can join in the fun !

The highly successful 2012 Mandurah World Cup Stop was the first of the four year plan for that City in Western Australia and the only one scheduled for the Nation. This makes the World Cup titles even more valuable to whoever climbs to the top of the Podium next weekend. With over 140,000 spectators expected to enjoy the festive atmosphere, those who can’t be on site in the beautiful Indian Ocean paradise of Mandurah will be able to tune in to the live World Cup Webcast which will run throughout. Here is the Link :

MANDURAH WORLD CUP STOP

For full reports and Results throughout, watch out for details here over the coming days. This promises to be one of the great World Cup Stops of the 2013 World Cup season.

TO ATTEND THIS WATERSKI & WAKEBOARD EXTRAVAGANZA

The City of Mandura on Australia’s south west coast will be in the global spotlight on March 16/17. Considering the recent Tokyo World Cup Stop achieved over 700 hours of TV exposure, the outstanding quality of athletes attending this particular event will certainly thrill the viewers wherever they are. This includes the 1,000 Gymnasiums and 19 Airlines which screen the World Cup Series who will share in the thrilling mix of disciplines ! A global live Webcast will also be provided by the International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation at www.IWWF.tv

The events to be featured in Mandurah are Wakeboard, Waterski Jump and Waterski Shortboard. The Wakeboard stars include both World Champions, Australia’s own 19 year old Harley Clifford and also 19 year old Raimi Merritt USA. Clifford is widely regarded as a phemenon in the sport of Wakeboard. His recent tally includes World Cup Stop victories in Palembang Indonesia, Sarawak Borneo, Linyi China, and the 2012 Mandurah Stop. Merritt is also almost unbeatable having taken World Cup gold in Indonesia, Borneo, Korea, China, and Qatar. Given the fact that Wakeboard is currently on the short list for possible inclusion in the 2020 Olympic Games, those involved in lifestyle Boardsports globally will take a special interest in the champions who could lead this path to Olympic glory in seven years time.

In Waterski Jump, it is not quite so clearly defined as to who will lead the battle for Mandurah gold. Certainly, in the men’s event, the athlete known to his fans around the world as “The Nightmare”, Freddy Kruger USA, is the one to watch. His achievements on the Jump Ramp have never been equaled in the long history of this exciting extreme sport which was founded in 1946.  Given that he will accelerate towards the Jump Ramp from zero to 100kph in approximately 1.8 seconds, it takes enormous skill to master this discipline. Not only is he the current World Champion but he has also broken the World Record an unprecedented seven times since 1999. Again, he has won the Jump event at almost every recent World Cup Stop. Unfortunately, the Women’s World Record holder, Natallia Berdnikova BLR, has been forced to withdraw on this occasion due to injury but watch out for 20 year old Jacinta Carroll AUS, a past World Junior Champion and U21 World Record breaker, and Marion Mathieu FRA who scored six major podium finishes last season alone.

In Shortboard, Mandurah spectators will be treated to the special skills of both World Record Holders, Clementine Lucine FRA and Aliaksei Zharnasek BLR. Lucine has been dominant for a full decade, Europe Africa Overall Champion ten times and was the first female ever to score over 10,000 points in this discipline. Her current World Record stands at 10,040 points. She is the defending Mandurah World Cup Champion, a title she will not relinquish easily. Alaiksei Zharnasek BLR holds the Men’s World Record at 12,570 points. He also is the defending Mandurah World Cup Champion, the current World Champion, reigning Moomba Masters Champion and like Lucine, will be very difficult to dislodge !

In bringing such a high quality event with athletes from 23 countries, the combined efforts of Government of Western Australia, Regional Development and Lands, Royalties for Regions, Eventscorp, City of Mandurah and EYRES  have now certainly made this region a significant watersports venue of very special interest to the global World Cup audience. MasterCraft will again provide the competition boats which will feature in every World Cup Stop of 2013, a service they have provided since 2004.

Never before has a WORLD CUP STOP been made so easy to enjoy – even if you are not lucky enough to be with the Waterski and Wakeboard Stars at the beautiful seaside City of Mandurah in Western Australia ! The date is the weekend of March 16/17 – St Patrick’s Day for many – so this will be very easy to remember.

So, here are your options :

LIVE FREE WORLD CUP WEBCAST  – www.IWWF.tv

TWITTER : @EYRES_ASG

FACEBOOK : http://www.facebook.com/pages/EYRES-Action-Sports-Games-Mandurah

‘And don’t forget to follow our reports and photos and results also here on this World Cup Website – just BOOKMARK this page right now !

In the coming weeks, we will issue a series of  WORLD CUP NEWS RELEASES and they will be featured both here and on our International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation Website at : www.IWWFED.com

‘Ever wish you could travel with the mega stars in our sport and enjoy the fantastic skills of our WORLD CUP Skiers and Riders performing in exotic locations all over the world ? Watching it all LIVE really does make a difference. Seeing Freddy Krueger, Harley Clifford, Raimi Merrit, Frederic von Osten, Sophia Marie Reimers or Natalia Berdnikava perform under pressure is a special treat. Watching them climb the WORLD CUP PODIUM even gives you a chance to applaud. Well, here is the next best thing !

From now on, you will be able to watch at home, not only our WORLD CUP STOPS, but also our Waterski and Wakeboard World Championships Webcasts – and it is all FREE !

All you have to do is bookmark and click on this site :

WWW.IWWF.TV

Please feel free to pass this good news on to your friends too so that they can also enjoy this FREE experience. Right now there is a fantastic collection of WORLD CUP clips already uploaded. Watch out also for our 35th WORLD CUP STOP in Mandurah, Western Australia scheduled for March 16/17. Those details will be published here soon but once you have bookmarked the LINK above, you will know where to go for EVERY WORLD CUP STOP from now on.

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