Tuesday 3 May 2016

MALAYSIA TO HOST THE 2019 IWWF WATERSKI WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP IN PUTRAJAYA

KUALA LUMPUR, May 3 (Bernama) -- The International Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) and Malaysia Major Events (MME), a division of the Malaysia Convention & Exhibition Bureau (MyCEB), are thrilled to announce that Malaysia will be playing host to the 2019 IWWF Waterski World Championship happening at Putrajaya come August 2019.
 
Organised by the Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (MWWF), the sporting event is expected to attract 1,400 international and 2,000 local attendees over the 7-day event to be held from 12 to 18 August, 2019.
 
The Waterski World Championship will see participants compete in three disciplines, which are Slalom, Jump and Figures. The Slalom discipline requires competitors to ski around six buoys and the skier who rounds the most number of buoys with the shortest rope is the winner. In the Jump discipline, the best skier will jump more than 70 metres, for men, and more than 56 metres, for women, with the longest jump being the win. Those performing Figures will have to execute the greatest number of tricks in two passes of 20 seconds. The skier with the highest aggregate score is the winner.

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