Max rides crest of a wave to take gold at World Wakeboard Championships

A RINGWOOD teenager is on top of the world after winning the World Wakeboard Championships in Argentina.

Despite being one of the youngest competitors in the event, sixteen-year-old Max Cuckney took the gold medal for Great Britain.

Max will now be hoping to compete at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as wakeboarding is one of eight sports currently shortlisted for further review to be considered.

He won the junior British championships when he was 11 and the British Cable Wakeboarding Championships at 15.

This earned him selection for the International Waterski and Wakeboard Federation (IWWF) championships in Argentina where he won gold last month.

Wakeboarding is a water sport where participants are either towed on a small board behind a motorboat, or by an electronically-driven cable.

The participant then rides the wake, which is produced by the towing boat or artificially, attempting to do tricks.

Max’s first experience of wakeboarding was at the New Forest Water Park, Ringwood.