The Water Ski World Championships concluded Sunday in Paris the same way that three previous championships have: with Regina Jaquess clutching a Women's slalom gold medal.
Riding her GOODE XTR, Regina (United States) came out on top of two tie-breaker run offs against eventual runner-up Whitney McClintock (Canada) to claim her fourth career World slalom title (see video above). The win sets the all-time mark for Women's world slalom championships, breaking the record of three that she previously shared with legends Liz Allen, Cindy Todd and Helena Kjellander. Regina's four World Slalom titles came in 2005, 2013, 2015, and now, 2017.
She also claimed the Women's overall title, completing an unprecedented slalom/overall three-peat (2013, 2015 and 2017). The overall gold is the fifth of her career, the most ever for a Woman and second only behind Patrice Martin all time. She also earned a silver medal in jumping to go along with her team gold, giving her four medals during the championships.
Joining Regina atop the overall podium on the Men's side was Team GOODE's Felipe Miranda (Chile), who advanced to the Men's slalom finals on the way to claiming overall gold, his second career World overall title.
Additional highlights:
- Thomas Degasperi (Italy) just missed out on claiming his fifth World championships medal, finishing fourth, a half buoy behind bronze medalist Jason McClintock (Canada). Brando Caruso (Italy) entered the finals as the top seed, finishing fifth. Additional GOODE skiers advancing to the finals were Felipe (8th) and Marek Mlynek (Slovakia - 10th).
- In Women's slalom six of the 12 finalists were on GOODE, as Clementine Lucine (France - 4th), Karen Truelove (United States - 6th), Celine Detry (Belgium - 7th), Alice Bagnoli (Italy - 8th), and Ambre Franc (France - 9th) joined Regina in the final round.
- Natallia Berdnikava (Belarus - 2nd), Giannina Bonnemann (Germany - 4th), Anna Gay (United States - 5th), and Brooke Baldwin (United States - 8th) all landed in the top-10 of Women's overall, while Adam Sedlmajer (Czech Republic - 4th) and Dorien Llewellyn (Canada - 5th) did so on the Men's side.
- With Freddie Winter (Great Britain) claiming gold in Men's slalom, both World slalom championships were won on PowerShells.
- The United States earned it's first team world title since 2013, with France and defending champion Canada finishing 2nd and 3rd, respectively.
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