🇩🇪 Max Milde

German cable rider Max Milde won his first world title in Thailand in 2022 and reclaimed it in Beijing in 2026.

Max Milde is the reigning IWWF Open Men cable world champion. The German rider, born in 2002 and from Duisburg, won the 2026 title at Shunyi Olympic Cable Park in Beijing. The IWWF said he reclaimed the crown in a final decided by less than a point: he scored 78.67, just ahead of Gavin Stuckey's 78.00.

His first world title came on Thai water. At the 2022 IWWF World Cable Championships at ESC Thai Wake Park on the northern edge of Bangkok, he won the Open Men final with 87.00, ahead of the Philippines' Raph Trinidad and Thailand's Peeranat Faktongyu. Two years later, at the 2024 Worlds in Paris, he finished sixth.

At The World Games 2025 in Chengdu he took silver behind France's Loïc Deschaux, with fellow German Florian Weiherer in bronze; German magazine Boote reported that he led after the first run and finished 2.2 points off gold. According to his IWWF rider profile, he goes by 'Mad Max' and names O'Brien Germany, Jetpilot, the Bundeswehr and Sporthilfe as sponsors.

Key results

Style & career

Champion in tight finals: his 2026 world title came by 0.67 points, and he has won Worlds in both 2022 and 2026. His IWWF rider profile lists looping as his favourite trick.

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. IWWF Cable – 2022 World Championships official results (ESC Thai Wake Park)
5. Boote – World Games 2025: German wakeboarders shine with gold, silver and bronze
6. IWWF Cable – rider profile: Max Milde