Scot Ellis jumping at the 2021 Water Ski World Championships

Scot Ellis won the gold medal in 45+ Men jumping.

The U.S. 35+ Water Ski World Championships Team won the gold medal and 27 U.S. water ski athletes combined to earn 43 individual medals, including 18 gold medals, in respective events at the 6th IWWF 35+ Water Ski World Championships, Sept. 13-19, at Ski Nautique Club de Bordeaux in Baurech Lake, France. The United States tallied 14,285.52 points in winning the gold medal. Great Britain earned the silver (10,863.08 points) and France the bronze (10,487.12 points). Athletes and teams from 28 countries competed in the six-day event as the world team title and world individual titles in slalom, tricks, jumping and overall were at stake.

Members of the U.S. 35+ Water Ski World Championships Team were: Erin Kalkbrenner (Maize, Kan.) and Graham Fizer (Mooresville, N.C.), 35+; Scot Ellis (Auburndale, Fla.) and Jeff Surdej (Wilmington, Ill.), 45+; Joy Kelley (Loudon, Tenn.), Hutch Haines (Avon, Conn.), Marc Bedsole (Orlando, Fla.) and Tina Lindsey (Martindale, Texas), 55+; Janie Fausold (Pleasant Grove, Calif.) and Stephen Miller (Marysville, Wash.), 65+; and Jill Smith (New Carlisle, Ind.), Team Manager.

U.S. 35+ Water Ski World Championships Team members combined to win 22 medals – 10 gold, seven silver and five bronze. Kalkbrenner won gold medals in 35+ women tricks (3,540 points) and overall (2,491.46 points) and the silver in jumping (128 feet); Fizer earned the silver medal in 35+ Men overall (2,021.92 points); Ellis won the gold medal in 45+ Men jumping (179 feet); Surdej earned the bronze medal in 45+ Men jumping (153 feet); Kelley won the gold medal in 55+ Women jumping (101 feet) and earned the silver in tricks (3,230 points) and overall (2,771.37 points) and the bronze in slalom (5 buoys at 35 feet off); Lindsey earned the bronze in 55+ Women jumping (87 feet); Haines won the gold in 55+ Men jumping (135 feet) and earned the bronze in slalom (2 buoys at 38 feet off); Bedsole earned the silver in 55+ Men tricks (3,800 points); Fausold won gold medals in 65+ Women tricks (2,390 points) and overall (2,954.02 points) and the silver in slalom (3-1/2 buoys at 32 feet off) and jumping (49 feet); and Miller won gold medals in 65+ Men slalom (2 buoys at 39-1/2 feet off), jumping (119 feet) and overall (3,000.0 points), and the bronze in tricks (2,340 points).

Seventeen U.S. athletes also combined to earn 21 medals competing as independents.

In 35+ Men, Cole Kalkbrenner (Maize, Kan.) won the gold in jumping (197 feet) and Casey Mommer (Rivers, Manitoba, Canada) earned the silver (192 feet). In 45+ Women, Patricia Burt (Greenacres, Fla.) earned the bronze in slalom (4 buoys at 35 feet off). In 45+ Men, Barton Rachwal (Orchard Lake, Mich.) earned the bronze in slalom (2 buoys at 39-1/2 feet off). In 55+ Women, Jennifer LaPoint (Windermere, Fla.) earned the silver in slalom (5 buoys at 35 feet off). In 55+ Men, Greg Tate (North Bend, Wash.) earned the silver in slalom (2 buoys at 38 feet off) and Mitch Grau (Carrollton, Texas) earned the bronze in overall (2,300.63 points). In 65+ Women, Denise Goldman (Elk Grove, Calif.) earned the bronze in slalom (2 buoys at 32 feet off). In 65+ Men, Jack Mills (Jacksonville, Fla.) earned the silver in slalom (2 buoys at 39-1/2 feet off), Eric Lee (San Diego, Calif.) earned the silver in tricks (2,700 points) and Dee Johnson (Murrieta, Calif.) earned the silver in overall (2,556.64 points) and the bronze in jumping (105 feet). In 70+ Women, Leza Harrison (Chuluota, Fla.) won the gold in slalom (1/2 buoy at 32 feet off) and tricks (1,840 points), and Brenda Cavenaugh (Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.) won the gold in jumping (35 feet) and the bronze in tricks (840 points). In 70+ Men, Will Bush (Elk Grove, Calif.) won the gold in slalom (3-1/2 buoys at 35 feet off). In 75+ Women, Shirley Coble (Lillington, N.C.) won the gold in slalom (2 buoys at 75 feet/longline). In 75+ Men, Stan Switzer (Mulberry, Fla.) won the gold in slalom (4 buoys at 32 feet off) and the bronze in tricks (780 points), and Stephen Nelson (St. Paul, Minn.) won the gold medal in tricks (2,160 points).

The Ski Nautique was the exclusive towboat of the 6th 35+ Water Ski World Championships. Nautique is a National Sponsor of USA Water Ski & Wake Sports.

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U.S. Team Wins Gold At IWWF 35+ Worlds

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