Water Ski Racing Athletes Win Titles At US Open Championships Of Water Ski Racing
SAN DIEGO, Calif. – Twenty-one of the world's top water ski racing athletes won titles at the third annual US Open Water Ski Racing National Championships, sponsored by Nordic Boats, Oct. 12-14, on Mission Bay. The National Water Ski Racing Association, a sport discipline of USA Water Ski since 1991, sanctioned the three-day competition.
More than 75 athletes from the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain and Denmark competed in two rounds of circle-sprint races on a 2-1/2-mile course located between East Vacation Isle and Fiesta Island. Competitors from the same class competed on an oval course with straight-a-ways approximately one-mile long and turns at three buoys. The athletes drew for pole positions, made a deep-water start at the drop a green flag and raced in lanes for a designated number of laps.
