Joel Poland and Hanna Straltsova won the men's and women's jumping titles, respectively, on Saturday at the 7th Louisiana Night Jam, presented by Tides Medical, at Tri-Lakes in Zachary, La. Some of the world’s top men’s and women’s professional water ski jumpers competed in the tournament.
Poland (Great Britain) won the men's event with a distance of 230 feet in the finals. Freddy Krueger (Winter Garden, Fla.) finished second with a distance of 227 feet after earning the top seed for the finals with a distance of 235 feet in the preliminary round. Luca Rauchenwald (Austria) and Taylor Garcia (Winter Garden, Fla.) rounded out the top-four placements with distances of 217 feet and 214 feet, respectively.
Straltsova (IWWF) won the women's event with a jump of 177 feet in the finals. Aliaksandra Danisheuskaya (IWWF) placed second with a distance of 171 feet. Brittany Warton (Little Rock, Ark.) finished third with a distance of 165 feet.