Wakeboard World Championships - FINAL RESULTS
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Taken from the Nautiques website - these are the Final results but they
also have Friday's and Saturday's elimination rounds listed.
http://www.nautiques.com/news/default.asp
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Cafe de Colombia Wakeboard World Championships
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Sunday, October 19
Canada's Jeremy Kovak captured the Cafe de Colombia Wakeboard World
Championships today in Altamonte Springs, Florida. Kovak scored 22,030
points to win his first ever world title.
Kovak hit his "slowball" maneuver for his final trick of his run
solidifying a terrific performance to put him over the top. The 16-year-old
phenom Parks Bonifay finished second with 21,573 points. This was the
second straight year Bonifay took second at the worlds.
Shaun Murray took third with 20,770 points and Brannan Johnson, appearing
in his first ever world championship as a pro, finished a very respectable
fourth with 20,070 points.
Defending champion Dean Lavelle took finished ninth while the 1997 pro tour
champion Darin Shapiro fell on a trick and finished 14th. Shapiro did win a
championship though. He took the pro expression session championship just
nipping Bonifay and Lavelle.
In the pro women's division, 15-year-old Tara Hamilton won her first ever
world title scoring 15,198 points. Dana Preble finished second.
Other division winners included: Cathy Williams in amateur women; Christy
Smith in junior women; Mike Rosenbrantz in masters; Gerry Nunn in Men II;
Gordy Bubolz in Men I; Roi Francois in boys; and Orlando native Ryan Wolfe
took first in Junior Men scored 18,603 points.
In the Sea Doo Team Challenge, Shapiro and Murray combined to beat Kovak
and Bonifay 166.5 points to 158 points.
Men's Pro Freestyle:
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1. Jeremy Kovak 22030
2. Parks Bonifay 21573
3. Shaun Murray 20770
4. Brannan Johnson 20070
5. Rob Struharik 20051
6. Dave Reinhart 19804
7. Hunter Brown 18941
8. Drew McGuckin 18673
9. Dean Lavelle 18622
10. Thomas Horrell 18147
11. Doug Homan 18116
12. Shane Bonifay 16483
13. Cobe Mikacich 15916
14. Darin Shapiro 15,676
15. Touge Norikaza 12787
Pro Women:
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1. Tara Hamilton 15198
2. Dana Preble 10342
3. Leslie Kent 8283
4. Nicola Huntridge 8196
5. Britt Larsen 6318
6. Tina Bessinger 5998
7. Donna Warren 5613
8. Farrah Dawson 5467
Pro Men Expression Session:
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1. Darin Shapiro 80.92
2. Parks Bonifay 79.25
3. Dean Lavelle 78.17
4. Gregg Necrason 77.75
5. Shaun Murray 76.83
6. Jeremy Kovak 73.17
7. Brannan Johnson 66.75
8. Cobe Mikacich 64.92
9. Randy Harris 62.59
10. Rob Struharik 53.67
Junior Men:
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1. Ryan Wolfe 18603
2. Nathan Strange 18303
3. Justin Evans 17916
4. Chad Sharpe 17880
5. Jake Huso 10657
Boys:
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1. Roi Francois 16354
2. Froggy Soven 8693
3. Bryan Kennedy 8147
4. JD Webb 7801
5. Brian Crawford 6596
Men I:
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1. Gordy Bubolz 18709
2. Edgardo Martin 18303
3. Stephane Traeger 15050
4. Brett Turner 13080
5. Daniel Watkins 12916
Men II:
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1. Gerry Nunn 18683
2. Scott Zenoni 17951
3. Anthony Monaco 15785
4. Damien Klaas 9280
5. Ken Wearing 5155
Masters:
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1. Mike Rosenbrantz 16037
2. Mack Weston 15951
3. Pat McElhinney 15530
4. Tony Klarich 12873
5. Gavin Broadbent 10258
Jr. Women:
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1. Christy Smith 12342
2. Melissa Marquardt 8617
3. Junko Suzuki 2485
Amateur Women:
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1. Cathy Williams 9571
2. Gabriela Diaz 9299
3. Mero Narita 7918
4. Gillian Whiteley 6640
5. Chie Yoshijima 6040
Sea Doo Team Challenge:
Darin Shapiro (85.00) & Shaun Murray (81.50) defeated Jeremy Kovak
(78.58) & Parks Bonifay (79.42) 166.5 points to 158 points.