2013 NEWS
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AALIYAH YOONG'S TRICK RUNS & SCORES FROM 2010 - 2013
October 30, 2013
A compilation made for the purpose of guiding new young skiers emerging from Malaysia and other Asian countries
MALAYSIAN WATERSKI TEAM PHOTOSHOOT
October 29, 2013
Malaysian Team & Officials with Coach Marian
Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah
Arianna Chow
Philippa, Arianna & Aaliyah Leaning on Sunset
Aaliyah & Arianna Having a Chat
Arianna & Aaliyah with Hanifah
Joyful Girls
Phillipa Cheeky with the Girls
2013 NAUTIQUE ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIPS: YOUNGEST EVER ASIAN OPEN WOMEN TRICK CHAMPION CROWNED TODAY
September 29, 2013
The Final Day (29.09.13) is an incredible and historic day for the Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard team with one Gold medal won by 10-year-old Aaliyah Yoong to become the youngest Asian Open Women Tricks champion ever in the sports 100 years of history.
“Aaliyah tricked well above her personal best of 5,050 points with an incredible score of 5,690 points! in her 10-year-plan to become a world champion started in 2010, she was not expected to become the Asian Open Champion till when she turns 11 in 2014 and she showed her tenacity by dethroning China’s quadruple Asian champion Song Yu Fei, age 23,” said team manager Hanifah Yoong.
He added that, “Twelve-year-old Arianna finished 5th in the finals with a personal best score of 3,120 points which is equally remarkable since by the best world standards of progress a beginner trick skier takes at least 2 years to reach this level but she took only 12 months to break the 3,000 points magical barrier. Aaliyah herself took nearly 2 years to achieve this when she won the SEA Games Gold in 2011.”
Veteran skier Alex Yoong, nursing a very sore body from a bad fall in jumping yesterday, finished a credible 9th in the tricks final and 11th in the slalom final today. He also finished 12th in jump eventhough he missed the cut from the jump final.
Well done and congratulations to the entire team members, athletes and coaches as well as family members who are here in Jakarta’s waterski venue in supporting the Malaysian team.
Open Slalom Results
Open Tricks Results
Open Jump Results
MALAYSIAN TEAM READY FOR THE 2013 ASIAN WATERSKI CHAMPIONSHIPS
September 22, 2013
Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (MWWF) is sending a very young contingent of seven skiers to the 2013 IWWF Nautique Asian Championships to be held in Jakarta, Indonesia from the 25th to 29th September.
The team’s average age is only 15 and they will be led by veteran waterskier and former F1 driver Alex Yoong who is the most senior at 37.
The youngest team member is Aiden Yoong Hanifah, making his international debut at 7, the same as when his more well-known sister Aaliyah, also made her debut in the 2010 Asian Championships.
The rest of the team comprises up and coming female waterski athletes Arianna Chow and Nurul Anis Mohd Isa who are both 12 and Syahir Rasimin and Owen Huish, both 15.
Double Asian slalom champion Phillipa Yoong will be a non-skiing team captain this time as she is under treatment and nursing a fractured spine injury sustained from years of competitive skiing.
She has been busy coaching from the boat however and together with international coach, Marian Malaquin from France, has been instrumental in coaching and getting the team prepared in the final centralized training stint in Putrajaya for the past two weeks.
Phillipa Yoong who is also MWWF’s Vice President said, “We are all very happy with the progress of our skiers and their state of preparedness. Our target is a minimum haul of one gold, 2 silvers and a bronze which will be a good achievement for Malaysia’s young team.”
The Malaysian team is able to make this trip with a larger than usual number of team members as a result of recognition of waterski’s success in the past and funding from National Sports Council, Perbadanan Putrajaya, RipCurl and others. MWWF is grateful for this,” she added.
A total of 81 waterskiers and wakeboards from 15 Asian nations will be participaating in the 2013 Nautique Asian Championships.
AALIYAH YOONG AGAIN IMPROVES HER WORLD RANKINGS AFTER EUROPE STINT
July 10, 2013
Nine-year-old Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah once again moved up on her world ranking for open women tricks, this time by 11 spots, to 59th in the IWWF world ranking list after she achieved new personal best scores in Italy and Austria in her recent 2 week training & competition trip in Europe.
She also moved up to 16th in the world rankings for U17 girls tricks from 18th before her European stint.
The rise in her world rankings was achieved via breaking her previous personal best score of 4,740 points with a score of 5,050 points twice in Italy’s San Gervasio International and once in Austria’s Fischlham WWUT International Cup events held on the 28th June and the 6th of July respectively.
Her coach and father Hanifah Yoong were impressed by her tenacity and focus in achieving these results calling the performances as remarkable saying, “It is not easy for a very young girl like Aaliyah to ompete amongst open women in two completely new foreign environments with cold waters and varying wind conditions with different boats.”
“She attracted European media attention which quoted her performances as inspirational being the youngest and smallest competitor in both tournaments,” Hanifah added.
Aaliyah, a Nexus International School student who turns 10 on the 16th of July next week will next participate in the 2013 Asian Waterski Championships in Indonesia from the 25th to 29th September where she hopes to retain her Asian U17 title.
She will also attempt to win the Asian open women tricks title for the first time. She was 3rd in the Asian open class in both the 2011 and 2012 Asian Championships where she lost out to the Chinese girls.
After the Asian Championships in Indonesia, Aaliyah will compete in the IWWF World Championship in November in Santiago, Chile to gain more top level experience and wind up her 2013 season.
Aaliyah is sponsored by Perbadanan Putrajaya, the National Sports Council of Malaysia, RipCurl, Nautique Boats, Nexus International School and WWWC for her 2013 campaign.
World Ranking Lists for Open Women and U17 Girls are available HERE
AALIYAH YOONG'S LATEST PROMO VIDEO
June 10, 2013
WAT-ER LETDOWN FOR AALIYAH
May 27, 2013
Indonesia’s Nur Tsurayya Priambodo dampened the party for Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah and her siblings when she lost her reign in Championships at Putrajaya yesterday. The nine-year-old was the favourite to retain her title she won by defeating her half-sister Phillipa last year, but it was not to be when she fell at the second pass doing her first trick.
Aaliyah was competing in the championship together with her younger brothers seven-year-old Aiden and five-year-old Adam for the first time and wanted to make it a memorable outing.
Aiden had earlier in his debut competition won the Under-12 Wakeboard and was second in the Mini-Slalom event. Adam also competed in the Under-12 Wakeboard event but finished 5th out of six competitors.
Earlier, Aaliyah bagged gold in the Slalom Intermediate. But it was the Tricks event Aaliyah was looking forward to excel, especially after having improved on his personal best score of 4,740 points a fortnight ago in the IWWF Waterski World Cup in Palembang which saw her move up in the World Rankings for Open Women Tricks from 100 to top 70.
Aaliyah had done well in the preliminary on Saturday to score 3,930 to finish top and earn the right to take the water last. But all that came to nought with her early fall.
However, Aaliyah took it sportingly. Anyway it was no shame in losing out to Tsurayya who is much older – 21 years old – and more experienced having been in the competition for 12 years.
“It has always been close rivalry between me and Tsurayya and today I gave the victory to her because I was not focussed,” said Aaliyah.
Aaliyah was also happy for her teammate Arianna Chow who took up the tricks event only five months ago and finished ahead of her in second place. Tsurayya scored 3,150 to win while Arianna attained 1,940 and Aaliyah had to settle for 1,810.
Hanifah Yoong, Aaliyah’s father and coach, said that it was the first time his daughter and two sons were competing together.
“It would have been great if Aaliyah had won the tricks event but all is not lost,” said Hanifah. “Aaliyah realises her mistake and I believe she will come back stronger.”
Hanifah said that Aaliyah, Aiden and Adam were all put in the swimming pool when they were six months old and were skiing when they were five.
Aaliyah’s next major assignment will be the Asian Championship in Palembang later this year.
More event photos HERE
EXCITEMENT AND FUN AT WATERSKI AND WAKEBOARD EXTRAVAGANZA
May 21, 2013
There is going to be fun and excitement for water sports lovers both young and old this weekend at the 5th annual Malaysian National Waterski & Wakeboard Championships at Putrajaya.
The event being held in conjunction with 2013 Festival Belia Putrajaya has attracted 63 athletes from 10 nations who will participate in Tricks, Slalom & Wakeboard events for men & women as well as age groups boys and girls.
s of nine-year-old Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah in the Junior World Championships and in the World Cup, which has caught the attention of the young.
The organiser, Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (MWWF) have therefore introduced the “Waterski Open Day” on Sunday 26 May for the public to participate in on-water and off-water activities for free. Families who attend the event to support the national team can enjoy reverse-bungee jumping and tubing, also free of charge.
There will also be face painting, colouring contests and rowing machines challenge. Spectators are advised to arrive early from 10am onwards on Sunday, 26 May to catch the Malaysian team in action.
The Malaysian team comrpise Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah, Arianna Chow and Nurulanis Mohamad Isa with team captain Phillipa Yoong sidelined after suffering a back injury in training.
Aaliyah’s favourite to win one of the main events, the Open Women Tricks with Indonesian champion Nur Tsurayya Priambodo from Surabaya as her biggest challenge.
MWWF has also donated 20 free waterski lessons to the lucky winners of the colouring contests for children and other contests on Sunday.
The preliminary rounds will be run on Saturday, 25 June from 8am to 4pm while the finals for the 16 events will be run on Sunday, 26 May from 8am to 4pm. Admission to the event is free and all other activities for the attending public are also free.
For more information or enquiries about the event, call +6012 272 1948 or +6012 387 7115 or email hanifah@waterski.com.my
AALIYAH YOONG MOVES UP TO TOP 70 IN WORLD RANKING
May 8, 2013
Following 9-year-old Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah’s fine performance of improving her personal best score of 4,740 points in last weekend’s IWWF Waterski World Cup in Palembang, she has now moved up in the world rankings for Open Women Tricks from Top 100 to top 70.
She also moved up to 18th in the world rankings for U17 Girls Tricks from 29th before the World Cup.
This augurs well for her bid to become one of the best skiers in the world before she is 15. Her main target is the Asian Championship in Palembang this year and then for next year she will focus on getting a top 5, if not a podium, in the Junior World Championships for U17 to be held in Ukraine,” said Hanifah Yoong, Aaliyah’s father who is her coach.
Her mentor Clementine Lucine of France who is the current world record holder for Women Tricks and who also won in the World Cup last weekend, was full of praise for Aaliyah.
“It is not easy to achieve a personal best score in a top flight event like the World Cup,” said Clementine.
“To be able to better her personal best in two top flight events in the past three months shows that she has her head firmly on her shoulder. She will go far,” added Clementine.
Aaliyah, a Nexus International School student who turns 10 in July this year, will participate in the Malaysian Nationals on the 25-26 May to be held in Putrajaya before going to France and Austria in Europe at the end of June for training and to compete in the Meuzac Cup in France and the Fischlham Cup in Austria.
Aaliyah is sponsored by Perbadanan Putrajaya, the National Sports Council of Malaysia, RipCurl, Nautique Boats, Nexus International School and WWWC for her 2013 campaign which will finance her budget to compete in the 8 events internationally in Australia, Indonesia, France, Austria, Indonesia, Chile and Malaysia this year.
WATERSKI & WAKEBOARD WORLD CUP PALEMBANG 2013 - MENTOR & PRODIGY
May 6, 2013
Clementine Lucine of France won women tricks at the Palembang Waterski World Cup just hours ago and she is also currently the women tricks world record holder with a score of 10,040 points. She is a mentor of Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah of Malaysia who at 9 years old became the youngest athlete to participate in the World Cup. Aaliyah against the pressure of a huge world stage kept good focus to better her personal best score with 4,740 points. Said Clementine of Aaliyah: “Aaliyah has a very bright future and I have no doubt she will be amongst the best in the world with age being her biggest strength. I met her when she was a mere 5 years old in Putrajaya’s World Cup in 2008 and I must say she is truly the legacy that the IWWF World Cup has built.”
Ladies Tricks Results
Men Tricks Results
Ladies Jump Results
Men Jump Results
2013 MALAYSIAN NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS 25-26 MAY
May 8, 2013
AALIYAH AT 2013 JUNIOR MOOMBA MASTERS DEBUT
May 7, 2013
2013 Junior Moomba Masters: Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah of Malaysia in her first Junior Moomba event finished 7th out of 11 competitors comprising some of the world’s best junior skiers after Round 2 today. She was not happy with her results today as she only scored 1,940 points due to a fall on her first trick in her toe pass. But her first round score of 3,680 points was enough to get her a good 7th position.
“I was somewhat nervous in today’s run for some strange reason,” said Aaliyah. “But it had been a great experience for me handling the unusual and challenging river site of Moomba in the 2 days competition here,” added Haliyah.
Hanifah Yoong, her father, is satisfied with Aaliyah’s performance and said, “She expected better but there are a lot of going-ons here in the great event for her to grasp them all. She is still very young and she has learnt much from this event. Seventh is a great result for me in her debut here.”
AALIYAH & PHILLIPA JOINS ASIAN NAUTIQUE ATHLETE TEAM
May 4, 2013
Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah, the youngest athlete to qualify for the Finals of the U17 World’s Championships in trick skiing and Phillipa Yoong, the Gold Medal winner of Women’s Slalom at the 2012 Nautique Asian Championships with Dan Guthrie of Nautique.
AALIYAH BETTERS HER SCORE AGAIN TO 8TH SPOT IN THE JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP'S FINALS!
February 26, 2013
Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah delivered what she promised by bettering her personal best score of 4,4,10 points achieved in the preliminary round last Thursday with a stunning 4,710 points in the finals this morning.
She also finished one better with 8th at the finals of the girls Under-17 tricks event at the IWWF Junior World Waterski Championships for Under-17 boys and girls in Mulwala, Australia this week.
In the process, she again betered her own national women tricks record and the IWWF Asian junior girls tricks record for Under-17 girls set only 2 days ago in the preliminary round.
With these consistent scores and showing her aptitude to tackle the demands of a world level event despite her tender age at 9 (going on to 10 in July 16, 2013). Aaliyah has impressed the world’s best coaches attending the championship. They described her as being a strong challenger for the world titles in the years to come as well as a young lady with nerves of steel and unafraid of the pressure of top level international competition
The winner of girls trick with a new world record score of 8,850 points is 17-year-old Erika Lang of USA who is expected to begin her career in professional waterskiing and join the world’s elite skiers challenging for the open world titles in the immediate coming years. This is Erika’s first world title after 2 other attempts in 2010 in France and 2008 in Peru. Second is the highly promising 11-year-old Neilly Ross from Canada who scored 6,480 points to push Natalia Cuglievan, 15, of Peru into 3rd spot.
Asked how she felt just before her finals runs, Aaliyah responded, “I was not nervous at all and I just felt all ready to get into the water to give my best.”
“The practice yesterday which my father arranged was really good as I was starting to lose my focus with 2 days not being on the water and I must thank my sister Pipa for helping me in the warm up before the final runs today,” she added.
Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard Federation’s Vice President, Phillipa Yoong who attended the world championships as one of the 14 jury members judging the event said in response to Aaliyah’s accomplishment, “This is an all-round wonderful story for Malaysian waterski as Aaliyah’s fine performance in her very first Junior Worlds is bound to spur on the many young Malaysian trainees we have in our fold. The future looks very good for Malaysia to reach world class standards in waterski.”
Aaliyah is sponsored by Perbadanan Putrajaya, the National Sports Council of Malaysia, Nautique Boats, Nexus International School and WWWC for her 2013 campaign which will see her competing in 8 events internationally in Australia, Indonesia, France and Malaysia this year.
AALIYAH TIPPED TO MAKE FINAL IN AUSTRALIA
February 18, 2013
Child prodigy Aaliyah Yoong is on track to achieving another milestone in her fledgling career at the World Junior Championships which starts tomorrow in Mulwala in New South Wales, Australia.
Despite having to punch above her weight in the Under-17 competition, the Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (MWWF) is confident Aaliyah will reach her first final in an event of such level after impressing at the national trials last week.
MWWF honorary secretary Norzeela Sulaiman said Aaliyah, after a 10-day training camp with French national coach Marian Malaquin in Putrajaya earlier this month, had managed to better her personal best in the tricks event.
The 9-year-old recorded a personal best of 4,800 points at the trials to better her previous best of 4,220 which she set at the Asian Championships in South Korea last year.
“We have been looking to see her move up a level before this event and are happy that she was very impressive at the trials we had before Marian (Malaquin) left last week,” said Norzeela.
“Our target is to have her make the final (top-12) in the tricks event in Mulwala and with her being able to hit 4,800 relatively consistently things are looking good. There are many factors which could affect things on the day, however, based on past records (in the competition) she should be able to make the final with her current level of ability.”
Norzeela added that Aaliyah will have to adapt quickly to the much colder climate as well as the shallow depths of the Max Kirwan Lakes if she is to do well at the event.
“From what we have heard the lakes there are much shallower than what we have here in Putrajaya and that will be a challenge for Aaliyah,” said Norzeela.
“This (shallowness) will likely force us to run the boat at a slower speed to help with buoyancy. We have simulated such conditions with Aaliyah here with her practicing in a wet suit (for cold conditions) and a running slower pace. She will, however, have to get used to the real conditions there as soon as possible as she only has tomorrow (today) to practice.”
This is important as she will only have two runs in the preliminaries on Tuesday (tomorrow) to get the score she needs.”
Aaliyah left for Mulwala yesterday and was accompanied by MWWF executive secretary Hanifah Yoong, who is also her father. The final of the event, should Aaliyah qualify, will be held on Sunday.
NEW KIDS ON THE BOARD
January 16, 2013
The Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard Federation (MWWF) believes it has discovered 3 talented youngsters who are on par or may even outshine nine-year-old prodigy Aaliyah Yoong in the future.
MWWF executive secretary Hanifah Yoong said the trio, Nurulanis Mohd Isa, Arianna Chow both 11, and seven-year-old Aiden Yoong, Aaliyah’s younger brother, only joined the federations training programme in November, but have been quick to impress.
“They only have recently join our programme, having no formal training beforehand, but have progressed at amazing pace,” said Hanifah.
“We have kept a detailed record of Aaliyah’s training record since she started and having compared their (trio’s) performance in training compared to Aaliyah’s (during the same phase), they have managed to consistently outscore her.
They have great potential and if they can dedicate themselves to the sport with support of their parents. I am confident they will be able to go on to achieve great success within the next few years.
“This is also great news for MWWF’s 10-year programme to develop a world champion as we cannot put all our hopes on Aaliyah alone.”
Hanifah added that Nurulanis and Arianna will compete in the Asian Championships in Indonesia in September to give them exposure on the international stage, but will first be tested at the National Championships in Putrajaya in May.
“Based on the current level of performance they have shown, I believe all three will do well at the National Championships,” said Hanifah.
“We will definitely be sending Nurulanis and Arianna to compete in Indonesia. We will have to wait and see how Aiden progresses as he is much younger.
“Due to their age they will be competing in the tricks category. We do not expect them to deliver any medals as this will be their first competition abroad.”
Hanifah said Shamal Norman and the Yoong siblings Alex and Phillipa as well as Aaliyah will likely make up the rest of the squad competing at the Asian Championships.
AALIYAH BETTERS HER SCORE AGAIN TO 8TH SPOT IN THE JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP'S FINALS!
February 26, 2013
Aaliyah Yoong Hanifah delivered what she promised by bettering her personal best score of 4,4,10 points achieved in the preliminary round last Thursday with a stunning 4,710 points in the finals this morning.
She also finished one better with 8th at the finals of the girls Under-17 tricks event at the IWWF Junior World Waterski Championships for Under-17 boys and girls in Mulwala, Australia this week.
In the process, she again betered her own national women tricks record and the IWWF Asian junior girls tricks record for Under-17 girls set only 2 days ago in the preliminary round.
With these consistent scores and showing her aptitude to tackle the demands of a world level event despite her tender age at 9 (going on to 10 in July 16, 2013). Aaliyah has impressed the world’s best coaches attending the championship. They described her as being a strong challenger for the world titles in the years to come as well as a young lady with nerves of steel and unafraid of the pressure of top level international competition
The winner of girls trick with a new world record score of 8,850 points is 17-year-old Erika Lang of USA who is expected to begin her career in professional waterskiing and join the world’s elite skiers challenging for the open world titles in the immediate coming years. This is Erika’s first world title after 2 other attempts in 2010 in France and 2008 in Peru. Second is the highly promising 11-year-old Neilly Ross from Canada who scored 6,480 points to push Natalia Cuglievan, 15, of Peru into 3rd spot.
Asked how she felt just before her finals runs, Aaliyah responded, “I was not nervous at all and I just felt all ready to get into the water to give my best.”
“The practice yesterday which my father arranged was really good as I was starting to lose my focus with 2 days not being on the water and I must thank my sister Pipa for helping me in the warm up before the final runs today,” she added.
Malaysian Waterski & Wakeboard Federation’s Vice President, Phillipa Yoong who attended the world championships as one of the 14 jury members judging the event said in response to Aaliyah’s accomplishment, “This is an all-round wonderful story for Malaysian waterski as Aaliyah’s fine performance in her very first Junior Worlds is bound to spur on the many young Malaysian trainees we have in our fold. The future looks very good for Malaysia to reach world class standards in waterski.”
Aaliyah is sponsored by Perbadanan Putrajaya, the National Sports Council of Malaysia, Nautique Boats, Nexus International School and WWWC for her 2013 campaign which will see her competing in 8 events internationally in Australia, Indonesia, France and Malaysia this year.
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