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2003 World Footbag Championships –  Recap – Results – Freestyle Video Collection

The 2003 World Footbag Championships: Exploring new territories

The World Footbag Championships are presented in Europe for the very first time, in Prague, Czech Republic to be precise. Young local prodigy Vasek Klouda caps off an extraordinary week by winning the singles routines competition. The energy level was insane, all the players were excited to compete at a Worlds in Europe. That year also launched a new footbag freestyle era, to be dominated by Czech players, especially Vasek Klouda. Although he won the routines in 2002, he still had to repeat, under pressure, in his own country, and he did, brilliantly. As some were questioning his win in the 2002 finals, his performance in 2003 left no room for doubt.Vasek made sure to write his name in Footbag history by winning doubles and Shred 30 as well.

On the women’s side, Carol Wedemeyer won yet another singles routines title while Samantha Conlon grabbed another mixed doubles routines 1st place. (Not filmed, due to schedule conflicts with my net competition)

This video recollection depicts some moments of  the freestyle competition.
Here’s a quick recap

Open Singles Routines semi-finals

Eli Piltz 0:18, Ken Somolinos 2:09, Tu Vu 4:19, Yacine Merzouk 6:13, Ryan Mulroney 8:32, Vasek Klouda 10:41

Open Singles Routines finals

Honza Weber 0:18, Scott Davidson 2:37, Sunil Jani 4:42, Yacine Mercouk 6:58, Peter Irish 9:35, Ryan Mulroney 11:48, Vasek Klouda 14:03

Open Teams Routines finals

Nadine Beyeler / Isabelle Widmer 0:18, Vasek Klouda / Ales Zelinka 2:47 The best women and men teams from the Championships.

Trailer – Vasek Klouda

What better than Vasek Klouda performing his finals routine in Prague to give us an idea of the crazyness surrounding this tournament’s freestyle contest? The ”Golden Child” is presumbaly the best footbag freestyler of all times and he proved it that year by dominating all his opponents with a fantastic dropless routine in the finals. Here’s an excerpt of that virtuosity.

2003 World Footbag Championships – Freestyle results

Open Singles Routines

  1. Vaclav Klouda (CZ)
  2. Ryan Mulroney (US)
  3. Yacine Merzouk (CA)
  4. Jan Weber (CZ)
  5. Peter Irish (US)
  6. Sunil Jani (US)
  7. Greg Nelson (US)
  8. Ales Zelinka (CZ)
  9. Scott Davidson (US)
  10. Ellis Piltz (CA)
  11. Alex Zerbe (US)
  12. Ken Somolinos (JP)
  13. Felix Zenger (FI)
  14. Dylan Fry (UK)
  15. Samuel Hufschmid (CH)
  16. Tuan Vu (US)
  17. Daryl Genz (US)
  18. Rick Reese (US)
  19. Paul Cronjaeger (DE)
  20. Jonathan Schneider (US)
  21. Tu Vu (US)
  22. Franck Remy (FR)
  23. Yves Kreil (DE)
  24. Peter Brocka (SK)
  25. Ondrej Skrabal (CZ)
  26. Maxime Boucoiran (FR)
  27. Alex Michelewski (DE)
  28. Ilkka Malin (FI)
  29. Pavel Cerveny (CZ)
  30. Matthias Schmidt (DE)
  31. Stefan Siegert
  32. Jere Linnanen
  33. Jere Vainikka
  34. Mikko Lepisto
  35. Jakob Wagner
  36. Karel Prokes
  37. Simon-Francois Kolodenchuk
  38. Vesa Ruuskaanen
  39. Karim Daouk
  40. Xavier Schwarz
  41. Lasse Salmenhaara
  42. Fred Touzelet
  43. Grischa Tellenbach
  44. Tuukka Antikainen
  45. Mads Hole
  46. Bjarne Everberg
  47. David Chabannes
  48. Uve Poom
  49. Dan Klokow
  50. Tomas Konicek
  51. Ali Dastrandj
  52. Keaton Halley
  53. Vlad Eskenasy
  54. Thomas Laboutka
  55. Silwan Daouk
  56. Christopher Reyer
  57. Mikka Koistinen
  58. Ilja Mitrofanov

Open Circle Contest

No results available – Probably that it didn’t even exist back then

Open Shred:30

1. Vaclav Klouda – 251.63
2. Felix Zenger – 195.10
3. Yacine Merzouk – 186.20
4. Ryan Mulroney – 182.26
5. Ales Zelinka – 180.09
6. Sunil Jani – 145.65
7. Lasse Salmenhaara – 138.55
8. Honza Weber – 131.53
9. Yves Kreil – 127.41

Open Sick 3

No results available

Open Sick Trick

No results available

Women’s Singles Routines

1. Carol Wedemeyer (US)
2. Isabelle Widmer (CH)
3. Jane Zerbe (US)
4. Nadine Beyeler (CH)
5. Caroline Bourguoin (CA)
6. Sunny Freeman Genz (US)
7. Johanna Nigisch
7. Hania Mickiewicz
9. Anne Busch
9. Nora Locher
11. Patrycja Szczeniowska
11. Verena Lenneis

Women Circle Contest

No results available – Probably that it didn’t even exist back then

Women Shred:30

No results available

Women Sick Trick

No results available – Probably that it didn’t even exist back then

Open Doubles Routines

1. Ales Zelinka & Vasek Klouda (CZ)
2. Daryl Genz & Rick Reese (US)
3. Sunil Jani & Tuan Vu (US)
4. Isabelle Widmer & Nadine Beyeler (CH)
5. Greg Nelson & Sam Conlon (US)
6. Max Boucoiran & Fred Touzelet (FR)
7. Matthew Baker (AU) & Hans Freller (NZ)

Mixed Doubles Routines

1. Sam Conlon & Greg Nelson (US)
2. Caroline Bourguoin & Ellis Piltz (CA)
3. Jane Zerbe & Alex Zerbe (US)

Intermediate Singles Routines

1. Tomas Tucek (CZ)
2. Michal Danek (CZ)
3. Fanda Hajek (CZ)
4. Martin Sladek (CZ)
5. Damian Budzik (PL)
6. Max Kerkhoff (DE)
7. Juuso Huopalainen (FI)
7. Sevi Fischer (CH)
9. Josh Benham (US)
9. Viktor Kratochvil (CZ)
11. Jozef Palencar (SK)
11. Arkady Lobankov
13. Masaaki Shigeoka (JP)
13. Hans Freller (NZ)
15. Oleg Donner (FI)
15. Emil Kofod-Olsen
17. Joseph Crain (US)
17. Bernhard Leiner (AT)
19. Petr Stejskal
19. Oton Copi
19. Kaarel Tall
19. Philipp Hanak
19. Gasper Znidarsic
19. David Garcia
25. Jevgeni Haenninen
25. Matthew Baker
25. David Kaufmann
25. Jendrik Schroeder
25. Rico Boehme
25. Thomas Weiss
31. Wiktor Debski
31. Ulysse Cazzato
31. Otso Konttinen
31. Aaron Wichman
31. Tom Brunila
31. Reimo Oum
37. Benoite Moret
37. Max Sarrazin
37. Arnaud Donnat
37. Ted Fritsch
37. Soren Andersen
37. Michael Sauren
43. Pierre Bardeau
43. Jakub Svoboda

Intermediate Shred:30

No results available

Intermediate Circle Contest

No results available – Probably that it didn’t even exist back then

Open Request Contest

No results available – Probably that it didn’t even exist back then

2003 World Footbag Championships – Non Freestyle or Net events  – results

Open 2-Square

No results available

Open Singles Golf

No results available

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2003 – World Footbag Championships
Freestyle – Finals + semis – Excerpts

The World Footbag Championships are presented in Europe for the very first time, in Prague, Czech Republic to be precise. Young local prodigy Vasek Klouda caps off an extraordinary week by winning the singles routines competition, a repeat from 2002.

1. 2003 World Footbag Championships Freestyle singles routines finals – 17:10
2. 2003 World Footbag Championships Freestyle doubles routines finals – 06:22
3. 2003 World Footbag Championships Freestyle singles routines semi finals – 13:25
4. 2003 World Footbag Championships Freestyle trailer Vasek Klouda – 01:13

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1. 2003 World Footbag Championships Open Singles Routines Finals – 17:10

2. 2003 World Footbag Championships Team Freestyle Routines excerpts – 06:22

3. 2003 World Footbag Championships Freestyle  Singles Routines semi finals excerpts – 13:25

4. 2003 World Footbag Championships  Freestyle Finals trailer – Vasek Klouda – 01:13

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