🇩🇪 Julia Rick

Germany's Julia Rick is the reigning cable world champion and 2025 World Games gold medallist, and lists ESC Thai Wake Park as her home cable.

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Julia Rick is the reigning IWWF Open Women cable world champion. Born in 1993 in Hürth, Germany, according to Wikipedia, she won the 2026 title in Beijing. A year earlier she took women's cable gold at The World Games 2025 in Chengdu with 86.40, ahead of Italy's Vanessa Tittarelli and the Netherlands' Sanne Meijer.

Her record spans both major circuits. She won the 2022 Worlds at ESC Thai Wake Park with 81.33, took silver in Paris in 2024 and won Pro Women Park at the 2023 WWA Wake Park World Championships in England; her official results page also lists the 2019 IWWF world title. Sport1 called her a 13-time world champion across IWWF and WWA events, and her results page lists the IWWF's Athlete of the Decade (2010–2019) award.

Thailand runs through her career. According to her IWWF rider profile, her home cable is ESC Thai Wake Park. Her results page lists wins at the 2018 Zanook Cup and a 2018 Plastic Playground stop in Bangkok, plus the 2015 WWA World Tour final stop in Phuket. Unleashed reported that she became an ambassador for Phuket's Thanyapura sports resort in 2018 and has made month-long winter training trips to Thailand.

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Style & career

According to her IWWF rider profile, her favourite trick is a frontflip to blind tailgrab, and she names Panasonic, Ronix, Sporthilfe and Garmin as sponsors. Her results page also lists 2024 IWWF Female Cable Wakeboard Athlete of the Year.

Sources & credits

Checked against official results and sports media. Details riders self-report on their IWWF profiles are labelled as such. Images on this page are AI illustrations, not photos of the athletes, out of respect for their image rights.

1. IWWF – 2026 Cable Wakeboard World Championships concluded
2. Wikipedia – Wakeboarding at the 2025 World Games
3. IWWF Cable – 2024 World Championships official results (Paris)
4. WWA – 2023 Wake Park World Championships wrap up at Liquid Leisure
5. IWWF Cable – 2022 World Championships official results (ESC Thai Wake Park)
6. Julia Rick – official results page
7. Sport1 – World Games gold, silver and bronze for cable wakeboarders (2025)
8. Wikipedia (German) – Julia Rick
9. Unleashed – Julia Rick starts 2018 in style
10. Unleashed – Interview with Julia Rick
11. Julia Rick – official website
12. IWWF Cable – rider profile: Julia Rick