Wakeboard World Championships 2008

This year the Wakeboarding World championships were held in Oklahoma City. Throw it Down had some riders in attendance to show what we females can do on the world stage. The top spot in the female pro division was taken by Nicola Butler of the UK followed closely by Dallas Friday and Melissa Marquardt. Defending Champion, Throw it down rider Amber Wing unfortunately had to sit out the event with a knee injury, however National Champion Ashley Leugner showed up to support both Canada and Throw it Down. Aslo killing it in the pro women was Australia’s Hayley Smith, USA’s Shelby Kantar and Laura Lohrmann. The junior women division was dominated by Throw it down ripper Anna Hajek taking gold.  We at Throw it Down would like to give a huge shout out to all our Canadian boys with their incredible showing with Rusty Malinoski taking World Champion, Aaron Rathy taking silver and Quebec’s Oli Derome with an awesome fourth in pro mens. BC rider James Balzer also killed it with a fourth place finish in the pro wakeskate while Raph Derome took silver in the Jr Mens wakeboard. GO CANADA!