US wakeboarder Dallas Friday topped off an amazing season by winning the WWA Wakeboard World Championships in her home town of Orlando, Florida.
It’s Friday’s fourth world title, but her first since 2006 when she sustained a terrible injury that almost ended her career. After two years in rehab, a process that blighted her 2007 and 2008 campaigns, the 23-year-old is finally back on top and dominating women’s wakeboarding.
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This year she's won the Wake Games, the US National Championships and the World Games. Her victory in the US Nationals in Oklahoma City in July was sealed when the former gymnast became the first woman to land an S Bend (spinning through 360º while upside-down) in competition.
In Orlando, she pulled off the same trick in her winning final run to put the crown on the winningest season for the "winningest female wakeboarder in history" (© ESPN).
Speaking of crowns, the victory also ties up the Queen of Wake series title for Dallas while Canada’s Aaron Rathy is officially the King of Wake.
Zuur weathers the storm
Friday’s wasn’t the only memorable wakeboarding comeback of the week: top Dutch wakeboader Duncan Zuur returned to competition after four years away to finish second in the EAME World Championships in South Korea. Duncan had to come through high winds and rough seas with a clean run to land the silver medal.
Zuur hasn’t exactly been idle in his the four years: he’s been concentrating on his own projects as well as the occasional guerrilla stunt, including this one:
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