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Marc Sickerling

Champion of the UIM's Aquabike World Pro Freestyle class for 2002 on the UIM's own grid, reported as winner of the opening round of the 1995 IJSBA tour, and named among the riders at the 2003 World Finals.

At a glance

Role
Racer
On the record
4 years, from 1995 to 2002
Disciplines
Freestyle
Titles on the record
1 title, each off a held results document
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 (this page's records)
  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 1995 to 2002, one box each A single row of boxes, solid for a year printed above a fact or in a title row and hollow for a year printed above none, with a small outlined triangle over each title year. 1995 2000 2002
  • a year printed above a fact or in a title row on this page
  • a year printed above no fact and in no title row
  • a title year

Printed above the facts or in the title rows, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2002. Printed above none, 1996 and 1999 to 2001. Title year 2002. 3 facts have no year printed above them and mark no box.

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

How we know: the year printed above each fact, and the Year column of the titles table, below; an honour carries no activity year, so it marks no box.

  • Confirmed 1

  • Likely 5

  • Contested 0

1 title row carries no grade word and is not counted here.

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.

Titles on the record (1)

Each read off a results document the archive holds: a result sheet, or, for a season's title, the body's own champions grid or season table, with the name as that document prints it.

YearEventClassPlacingName as printedDocument
2002UIM Aquabike World Championship, UIMAQUABIKE CLASS PRO - FREESTYLEchampionSICKERLING MarcUIM champions grid World

Results

2002 · Confirmed

The UIM's champions grid for Aquabike World lists SICKERLING Marc, Germany, as champion of its Pro Freestyle class in 2002.

Sources: UIM champions grid World

1997 and 1998 · Likely

The UIM's continental grid lists M. SICKERLING, Germany, as champion of the same Pro Freestyle class in 1997 and 1998. The grid prints an initial only; the archive reads it as Marc from the initial, the family name, the country and the class, an inference.

Sources: UIM champions grid Continental

1995 · Likely

Personal Watercraft Illustrated's interview with him in July 1996 opens with the writer's account of his 1995 season: he came to America to contest the IJSBA National Tour, won its opening round in Richland, Washington, finished fourth overall and then won the World Championship at the World Finals for the second year running. The magazine's February 1997 profile of Rick Roy says the judges of that final scored the German rider's routine above Roy's. Both are the magazine's accounts. The archive reads him as the UIM's 2002 champion from the full name, the country and freestyle, an inference.

Sources: PWI July 1996 Marc Sickerling interview; PWI February 1997 Roy profile 1995 Finals

Likely

The International Jet Sports Boating Association's release of 4 October 2003, from the opening of its 22nd World Finals, names Marc Sickerling (Germany, Pro Freestyle) among the international Pro riders who would join the part-time U.S. residents at Lake Havasu. The full name, the country and the class are the archive's tie to the UIM's 2002 champion, an inference.

Sources: IJSBA 4 Oct 2003 international riders release

Likely

PWI's report of the third Red Bull Wave Bash, a surf-riding contest with a 16-rider entry list, names the German Marc Sickerling among the riders on hand. The report prints no date for the contest. Reading him as the UIM's 2002 champion rests on the full name and the country, an inference.

Sources: PWI 2003 Red Bull Wave Bash report

Recognition

Likely

The association's hall of fame roster lists Marc Sickerling among its 2006 inductees, and its post of 14 July 2006 announcing the same first 25 prints the name as Mark Sickerling. Both print names only, so the archive reads them as this rider on the name.

Sources: IJSBA hall of fame page; IJSBA post first hall inductees 2006

Names as printed

SICKERLING Marc (UIM champions grid World)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (1)

  • The association's champions page lists Marc Sickerling, Germany, Kawasaki, in its Pro Freestyle table for 1994 and 1995, and a Marc Sickerling, USA, Kawasaki, in its Amateur Freestyle table for 1993. No World Finals sheet of 1993, 1994 or 1995 is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-19), so none is a title here.

Documents cited on this page

  • UIM champions grid World (uim.sport): UIM Champions grid, Aquabike World, every non-junior class, 2001 to 2026 (uim.sport, read 5 October 2026), Union Internationale Motonautique; sanctioning body, high. The world governing body's own list of its Aquabike world champions, read through the page's own discipline and class filters and held as one text, class by class, with year, class, country and name exactly as the grid prints them. The page has one address whatever the filter, so the part after # names the filter and is not part of the address. The grid starts in 2001, prints no 2007 or 2008 row in several classes, prints some names with a typing slip (AL ALBDULRAZZAQ for 2015), prints two riders for some years in parallel slalom without saying why, and its country column is often the licensing federation rather than the rider's own country (Lee Stone as BRAZIL, European riders as UAE). No placings below first and no machines.
  • UIM champions grid Continental (uim.sport): UIM Champions grid, Aquabike Continental, every non-junior class, 1996 to 2026 (uim.sport, read 5 October 2026), Union Internationale Motonautique; sanctioning body, high. The same UIM grid filtered to its continental (European) championships, held as one text, class by class, from 1996. Same page and address as the world grid; the part after # names the filter. The grid's world list starts in 2001, so its 1996 to 2000 rows here are continental titles, which some secondary lists call world titles. Country is often the licensing federation.
  • PWI July 1996 Marc Sickerling interview (web.archive.org): Interview: Freestyle World Champion Marc Sickerling, Coming to America, by Sascha Schalthoefer (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, July 1996, online archive page, Wayback capture of 2 December 1996), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1996-07; enthusiast media, medium. A magazine interview with a German freestyle rider, opening with the writer's own account of his 1995 season on the IJSBA tour and at the World Finals. Medium for the writer's introduction; the answers are the rider's own words. The issue month is read from the archive address. The held copy is an excerpt.
  • PWI February 1997 Roy profile 1995 Finals (web.archive.org): The Next Generation, by Joel Johnson, profile of Rick Roy (Personal Watercraft Illustrated, February 1997, online archive page, Wayback capture of 24 June 1997), the 1995 World Finals passage, Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 1997-02; enthusiast media, medium. A second excerpt of the magazine's February 1997 profile of a freestyle rider: its passage on the judging of the Pro Freestyle final at the 1995 World Finals. Medium as the magazine's account.
  • IJSBA 4 Oct 2003 international riders release (web.archive.org): 2003 WF Press Release, IJSBA World Finals International Stars, 4 October 2003 (ijsba.com, Wayback capture of 16 December 2003), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2003-10-04; sanctioning body, high. The association's release from the opening of its 22nd World Finals, naming the international riders gathered for the Nation's Cup by country and class, and the returning 2002 world champions. High for whom the association names; the held copy is an excerpt.
  • PWI 2003 Red Bull Wave Bash report (web.archive.org): Competition: Red Bull Wave Bash, The Waterman, by Chris Jonnum (Personal Watercraft Illustrated online feature, Wayback capture of 10 April 2003), Personal Watercraft Illustrated (watercraft.com), 2003; enthusiast media, medium. Report of the third Red Bull Wave Bash, a surf-riding contest with a 16-rider entry list, which Joe Kenney won over Chris MacClugage in the final. The page prints no date for the contest or the piece; the published year is the year of the earliest capture. Medium as the magazine's own report. Only an excerpt is held here.
  • IJSBA hall of fame page (ijsba.com): The Jacobsen-Stjernstrom IJSBA Hall of Fame (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association; sanctioning body, high. The association's own roster, read on 22 September 2026, giving the hall's name, its creation and dedication in 2006, and inductees by year to 2014, names only. It publishes no selection criteria and no citation for anyone.
  • IJSBA post first hall inductees 2006 (ijsba.com): IJSBA Monthly Update for June and World Finals Announcement (IJSBA news post dated 14 July 2006), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2006-07-14; sanctioning body, high. The association's announcement of the first 25 people for its hall of fame, 25 in honour of its 25th World Finals, with a short account of how they were chosen and who helped draw up the candidates. It prints names only, five of them spelt otherwise than on the hall's roster page. High for the association's own account of its hall. The held copy is an excerpt.
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“Marc Sickerling”, BaddJet archive, https://baddjetarchive.com/key-figures/marc-sickerling/

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