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WATERSKI MagazineThe International Water Ski Federation Hall of Fame has 11 new inductees. They are:
* Cypress Gardens founder Dick Pope Sr.
* Richard Cowell, a 47-year skier/executive in the U.S. and Caribbean.
* Three-time European women's champion Piera Castelvetri.
* Former Canadian Water Ski Federation president Roger Codere.
* Bruce Cockburn, the 1969 world trick champion from Australia.
* Latin America ski promoter Rene Daumas.
* Switzerland's Jean-Jacques Finsterwald, World Water Skiing Union president from 1976-81.
* Former Cypress Gardens show director Simon Khoury of Jordan.
* Betty Leighton, who is credited with sparking Australia's competitive skiing environment in the 1950s.
* David Nations, Britain's first Worlds qualifier in 1949.
* Three-time world overall barefoot champion Brett Wing of Australia.
