🇵🇭 Raph Trinidad

Filipino rider Raph Trinidad has three IWWF world medals, including silver at the 2022 Worlds in Thailand.

Raph Trinidad, born in 2001 and from Liloan in Cebu, has stood on three IWWF world championship podiums. His first came in 2019 at Pampa Cable Park in Buenos Aires, where he took Open Men silver; The Freeman (Philstar) reported it as the first time a Filipino had reached a cable Worlds podium.

He took silver again in 2022 at ESC Thai Wake Park, scoring 85.67 behind Max Milde, and bronze at the 2024 Worlds in Paris. In January 2025 he won the IWWF Asia & Oceania Championships at Deca Wake Clark in the Philippines with 81.67, the final qualifying event for The World Games 2025.

At those Games in Chengdu he was the Philippines' flagbearer and posted a heat score of 80.20, just behind Loïc Deschaux's 80.40. The World Games also describes him as a Red Bull athlete with nine national titles. According to his IWWF rider profile, he goes by 'Trinidaddy', calls Deca Wakepark Clark his home cable and names Red Bull and Jetpilot among his sponsors.

Key results

Style & career

His IWWF profile names a switch backside 360 rewind 540 off the kicker as his favourite trick. He has won IWWF Open Men world medals in 2019, 2022 and 2024.

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 Cable – 2022 World Championships official results (ESC Thai Wake Park)
2. IWWF Cable – 2024 World Championships official results (Paris)
3. Wikipedia – Water skiing and wakeboarding at the 2025 SEA Games
4. Malaya Business Insight – Red Bull ace rules international wakeboard tilt
5. The Freeman (Philstar) – Sweet repeat (2022)
6. The World Games – Flagbearer Trinidad destined to make Philippines proud
7. IWWF Cable – rider profile: Raph Trinidad