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2013-03-22 12:29:45 | 1452 views |
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2013 Men’s Moomba Masters jump champion Freddy Krueger claimed his fourth title Moomba title, by leaping 222 feet. photo: Geena Krueger

U.S. water ski athletes Freddy Krueger (Winter Garden, Fla.), Erika Lang  (Gilbert, Ariz.) and Chris Parrish (Orlando, Fla.) won titles in respective events at the 53rd Moomba Masters, March 8-11, in Melbourne, Australia. Krueger won his fourth career Moomba Masters’ men’s jumping title – and first since 2007 – with a distance of 222 feet. Lang, who set  a pending Open Women national record of 9,300 points in each of the first two rounds, won her first career Moomba Masters’ women’s tricks title with a score of 8,680 points in the finals. Parrish won his fourth career Moomba Masters’ men’s slalom title with a score of 3 buoys at 41 feet off, which tied the course record at the Moomba Masters. In other events, Belarus’  Herman Beliakou won men’s tricks, Finland’s Jutta Lammi won women’s jumping and Canada’s Whitney McClintock won women’s slalom. Lang also was among three U.S. athletes to win respective titles at the 2012 Junior Moomba Masters, March 6-7, in Melbourne. Lang won titles in girls’ tricks, jumping and overall, and placed second in slalom. She won the tricks title for the third consecutive year. Kara MacIntyre (Knoxville, Tenn.) won girls’ slalom and finished runner-up in jumping and overall, and third in tricks. Dane Mechler (Loveland, Ohio) won boys’ slalom. Taylor Garcia (Winter Garden, Fla.) placed runner-up in boys’ jumping and overall. He also placed third in tricks and sixth in slalom.

Men’s Slalom

1. Chris Parrish
2. Adam Sedlmajer
3. Thomas Degasperi

Men’s Jump

1. Freddy Kueger
2. Ryan Dodd
3. Scot Ellis

Men’s Trick:

1. Herman Beliakou
2. Josh Briant
3. Ryan Green

Men’s Overall

1. Adam Sedlmajer
2. Joel Wing
3. Josh Briant

Women’s Slalom

1. Whitney McClintock
2. Emma Sheers
3. Karen Truelove

Women’s Jump

1. Jutta Lammi
2. Jacinta Carroll
3. Marion Mathieu

Women’s Trick

1. Erika Lang
2. Marion Mathieu
3. Clementine Lucine

Women’s Overall

1. Whitney McClintock
2. Marion Mathieu
3. Jacinta Carroll

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