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Year Location Slalom Trick Jump Overall 1939 Jones Beach, New York Bruce Parker Bruce Parker Jack Schiess Bruce Parker Esther Yates Esther Yates
The U.S. National Water Ski Championships is an annual water ski competition that has taken place since 1939. Hosted by the American Water Ski Association (AWSA) and taking place every year since its inception, with the exception of 1942–1945, the competition is the oldest and longest-running water ski competition in the world. The U.S ...
The American Water Ski Association (AWSA) was founded in 1939 to organize the first U.S. National Water Ski Championships. [1] Today, AWSA is one of the nine sport disciplines that comprise USA Water Ski and Wake Sports. As of 2015, USA Water Ski was the largest water ski federation in the world with more than 600 clubs and 20,000 members. [2]
Wide World of Sports was the first U.S. television program to air coverage of – among events – Wimbledon (1961), the Indianapolis 500 (highlights starting in 1961; a longer-form version in 1965), the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship (1962), the Daytona 500 (1962), the U.S. Figure Skating Championships (1962), the Monaco Grand Prix (1962 ...
The U.S. Open is a professional water ski tournament that ran regularly from 1987 to 2007. Since then it has experienced brief comebacks running for three years from 2014 to 2016, and most recently in 2021.
The U.S. Professional Water Ski Tour (also known as the Coors Light, Michelob Dry, Bud, and Budweiser Water Ski Tour) was an annual standardized series of professional water ski tournaments held across the United States and Canada. The tour began in 1984. [1] Tour stops were typically held on public water in metropolitan areas designed to draw ...
Year Place Slalom Trick Jump Overall Team 1949 Juan-les-Pins, France Christian Jourdan, France Pierre Gouin, France Guy de Clercq, Belgium Christian Jourdan, France
Ricky McCormick (born March 14, 1952) [1] is an American water skier. He won 11 world titles, 37 national championships. He won 11 world titles, 37 national championships. He was awarded two gold medals for Water skiing at the 1972 Summer Olympics , though as it was a demonstration sport that year they are not included in the medal table. [ 2 ]