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Chris Langlais

A professional freestyle rider sixth at the 2015 IJSBA World Finals, reported in a backflip pool show at the 2016 Daytona Freeride and in a freestyle water show in Tennessee that July.

At a glance

Role
Racer and rider
On the record
2 years, from 2015 to 2016
Disciplines
Freestyle
Titles on the record
none read off a held results document yet
In the archive
2 history chapters and 1 event
  1. The early years, in print, 1981 to 1993
  2. The makers and their machines, 1985 to 2005
  3. Noise, safety and federal rules, 1996 to 2002
  4. The rule book years, 2002 to 2018 (this page's records)
  5. Three rule books, 2021 to 2026

The eras this page's records fall in are drawn solid; the others are hollow.

How we know: Each bar runs the years printed on that era's panel, and which eras a page falls in is the archive's grouping of its records, not the length of anyone's career.

Years 2015 to 2016, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact and hollow for a year printed above none. 2015 2016
  • a year printed above a fact on this page

Printed above the facts, 2015 and 2016.

Every year from the first to the last year printed above a fact on this page, one box a year.

How we know: the year printed above each fact below.

Riding and racing, 2015 to 2016 Two labelled rows of boxes on one scale of years, riding above and racing below; a box is solid where a year is printed above a fact in that row, or in a title row for racing, and hollow where none is. Riding outside a race Racing, results and titles 2015 2016
  • a year printed above a fact in that row, or a title year in the racing row
  • a year printed above no fact in that row

Riding outside a race, 2016. Racing, results and titles, 2015.

The same range of years in two rows, riding outside a race above and racing below.

How we know: the year printed above each riding fact, and above each results fact and in each title row.

  • Confirmed 1

  • Likely 2

  • Contested 0

The grade word on each fact on this page, counted. It grades how firmly the documents tie each fact to this person, not the person.

How we know: the word printed above each fact below, counted on this page only.

Results

2015 · Confirmed

The revised final results of the World Finals of October 2015, published by the International Jet Sports Boating Association (IJSBA), list Chris Langlais sixth in Pro Freestyle.

Sources: 2015 World Finals results

Riding outside a race

2016 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of the 2016 Daytona Freeride, held on Daytona Beach from 14 to 17 January 2016, says that in the Saturday night back flipping show in the pool another rider was joined by Chris Langlais and the two did simultaneous backflips from each direction. Reading him as the Pro Freestyle rider of the 2015 sheet is the archive's inference, from the name and freestyle.

Sources: WCJ 25 January 2016 Daytona Freeride

2016 · Likely

The Journal's post of 26 July 2016 says Chris Langlais was one of three professional freestyle riders who performed a total of 8 shows of 20 to 30 minutes over two days at the first Franklin Freestyle Water Show, at Westhaven Lake in Franklin, Tennessee, on the Saturday and Sunday before the post. The pool rider, the show rider and the sheet's rider are one person on the archive's reading of the name and the discipline, an inference.

Sources: WCJ 26 July 2016 Franklin Freestyle Water Show

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (1)

  • The Watercraft Journal calls him an amateur and world champion in 2016. No held sheet shows him first in a class (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18), so no title is on this page.

Documents cited on this page

  • 2015 World Finals results (web.archive.org): Quakeysense World Finals 2015, revised final results (PDF, Wayback capture), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2015-10-19; sanctioning body, high. Revised final results by race, with make per rider, for the World Finals of October 2015. The 2013/07 in the address is an upload folder, not the year.
  • WCJ 25 January 2016 Daytona Freeride (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 2016 Daytona Freeride Presented by BlackTip/WCSS (The Watercraft Journal, 25 January 2016), The Watercraft Journal, 2016-01-25; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's report of the 2016 Daytona Freeride, 14 to 17 January 2016: a list of pro riders at the event, the Surf 'n Style competition on the Saturday with its first three places, and the Saturday night pool show in which Mark Gomez did three flips in a row and was then joined by another rider for simultaneous back flips. No craft is named for the show. Medium; the list of names alone is not a ride.
  • WCJ 26 July 2016 Franklin Freestyle Water Show (watercraftjournal.com): Video: Hydro-Turf Athletes Wow Crowds at Franklin Freestyle Water Show This Past Weekend (The Watercraft Journal, 26 July 2016), The Watercraft Journal, 2016-07-26; enthusiast media, medium. A trade site's post on the first Franklin Freestyle Water Show, at Westhaven Lake in Franklin, Tennessee, on the Saturday and Sunday before the post: three professional freestyle riders performed a total of eight shows. Medium; the titles it gives the riders are not used. The held copy is a short excerpt.
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