Waterski &
Wakeboard World Cup Sdn. Bhd. (WWWC)
is a company founded in collaboration with and
to represent the
International Water Ski Federation
(IWSF)
in marketing, promoting and organising in
Malaysia, the waterski and wakeboard international events and world championships that are owned and managed by the IWSF.
The first ever IWSF sanctioned and promoted Waterski World Cup will
be held in the Putrajaya Water Sports Centre at Precint 6 (near the Putrajaya International Convention Centre)
with the agreement of Perbadanan Putrajaya (Putrajaya
Corporation) as the venue owner.
The Putrajaya Waterski World Cup will be organised by WWWC with the
Malaysian Water Ski Federation
(MWSF)
as the joint organiser. The MWSF is headed by Datuk T.Y.Lee as the
President.
MWSF's & WWWC's management and officers have very substantial
experience in the promotion and organisation of
international & national waterski events in Malaysia and the region having
organised in
the past, the
IWSF Asian Waterski Championship, the IWSF Asian Australasian Waterski
Championship, the
numerous
National Waterski Championship events in the 90s at Kuala Lumpur's Tasik
Desa as well as at Selangor's Tasik
Biru in Kundang near Sungai Buluh.
The feather in
the caps of the MWSF & WWWC's management and officers (who are all
Malaysians or Malaysian
residents) is the prized experience of having also organised the IWSF
Waterski World
Championship in
1993 (under the Singapore Water Ski Federation) which saw 33 nations
participating in the week-long
event under difficult conditions at Singapore's Kallang River.
These personnel of MWSF & WWWC include amongst many others: Ms.
Phillipa Yoong (Malaysia's triple national records
holder, National Coach, 1997 Jakarta SEA Games Gold Medallist, 1994 Asian
Australasian Games Silver Medalist and MWSF's
Hon. Secretary), Ms.
Norzeela Sulaiman (WWWC Director & MWSF Committee Member), Emirul Shahimy Ab
Wahab (WWWC's
Site Manager), Ms. Nur Izzaty Bt. Zainal Abidin (WWWC's PR Officer), Roland
Tan (MWSF's
Hon. Treasurer),
Rennie Khoo (Former waterski national team member and MWSF Committee
Member),
Danny Choo (WWWC's
Design Manager), Linden Warner (MWSF Project Coordinator) and Hanifah Yoong
(IWSF Event
Director, Malaysia).
The MWSF & WWWC with the strong support of the IWSF will develop the
Malaysian waterski and wakeboard
sports as well as further enhance the recreation aspects of these sports to
make Putrajaya a centre for
these activities in Malaysia.