Water skiing at the 2001 World Games – Men's wakeboard

Waterskiing men's wakeboard at the 2001 World Games
Venue	Ogata Water Ski Course, Ogata, Akita, Japan
Date	23–25 August 2001
Competitors	16 from 11 nations
Medalists
Rodo Vinh-Tung   Morgan Krause   Fabrizio Benelli

The men's wakeboard freestyle competition in water skiing at the 2001 World Games took place from 23 to 25 August 2001 at the Ogata Water Ski Course in Ogata, Akita, Japan.

Competition format

A total of 16 athletes entered the competition. Best three athletes from preliminary heats qualify directly to the final. In last chance qualifiers two athletes also qualifies for the final.

Results

Preliminary

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Country	Result	Notes
1	Rodo Vinh-Tung	France	65.22	Q
2	Morgan Krause	South Africa	63.22	Q
3	Domu Narita	Japan	57.77	Q
4	Hardy Tunnissen	Germany	46.00
5	Loren Levine	United States	43.33
6	Matthew Dance	Australia	40.44
7	Yoshiyuki Hatakeyama	Japan	40.33
8	Marcello Luca	Italy	38.66

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Country	Result	Notes
1	Fabrizio Bennelli	Italy	60.66	Q
2	Dan Nott	Great Britain	58.66	Q
3	Manabu Nagatsuka	Japan	55.33	Q
4	Duncan Zuur	Netherlands	43.33
5	Richard Whitfield	Australia	42.33
6	Roger Koa	Singapore	41.00
7	Jonathan Joseph	South Africa	26.22
8	Robert Braun	Austria	14.33

Last Chance Qualifiers

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Note
1	Loren Levine	United States	Q
2	Hardy Tunnissen	Germany	Q
3	Richard Whitfield	Australia
4	Duncan Zuur	Netherlands

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Result
	Rodo Vinh-Tung	France	59.55
	Morgan Krause	South Africa	58.44
	Fabrizio Bennelli	Italy	58.00
4	Dan Nott	Great Britain	56.33
5	Loren Levine	United States	51.89
6	Hardy Tunnissen	Germany	51.33
7	Manabu Nagatsuka	Japan	49.33
8	Domu Narita	Japan	18.22

External links

• Results on IWGA website