What happened in 2022

With three different men having claimed an event win and every tour stop boasting a different female champion, this upcoming season could be the most exciting year of Overall waterskiing yet. Louis Duplan-Fribourg and Paige Rini will be looking to defend their Lacanau Cup titles on the coastal lakes of France. Joel Poland and Kennedy Hansen will return to the beautiful landscape of Austria to defend their wins from 2022, while Poland will also look to retain the Calgary Cup crown that he won in front of the largest crowd of last year. Finally, Dorien Llewellyn and Hanna Straltsova will be hoping to take the momentum of having won the Florida Cup, the final event of 2022, into the upcoming season, with Dorien looking to snatch back the golden tour champion jersey he lost to Joel in 2022. Ultimately, when you add the return of the women’s world number one and former tour Champion, Giannina Bonnemann, the storylines heading into this season will be packed with excitement from start to finish.