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Mark Gomez

Won Pro Freestyle at the 2017 World Finals and, on the archive's reading of the name, the 2018 World Cup, and is reported in pool shows and freeride sessions at Daytona, Baja and Cronulla from 2014 to 2018.

At a glance

Role
Racer and rider
On the record
5 years, from 2014 to 2019
Disciplines
Freestyle, Freeride
Titles on the record
2 titles, each off a held results document
In the archive
2 history chapters and 2 events
  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 2014 to 2019, 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. 2014 2019
  • 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, 2014 and 2016 to 2019. Printed above none, 2015. Title years 2017 and 2018.

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.

Riding and racing, 2014 to 2019 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 2014 2019
  • 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, 2014, 2016 and 2018. Racing, results and titles, 2017 to 2019.

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 8

  • Contested 0

2 title rows carry no grade word and are 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 (2)

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
2017Blowsion World Finals, IJSBAPro Freestyle1stMark Gomez2017 World Finals Sunday results
2018Thai Airways International Jet Ski World CupPro Freestyle1stMARK GOMEZWorld Cup 2018 Pro Freestyle sheet

Results

2017 · Confirmed

The International Jet Sports Boating Association's posted results for Sunday 8 October 2017 at the 2017 Blowsion World Finals list him first of 14 riders in Pro Freestyle, with race number 137 and the make printed as KAW.

Sources: 2017 World Finals Sunday results

2018 and 2019 · Likely

The organiser's Pro Freestyle sheet for the Thai Airways International Jet Ski World Cup of 6 to 9 December 2018 gives him final position 1 with 40 points, under the country and team USA / RICKTER, and its 2019 sheet places him third with 32 points and prints 137 in its craft column. That the World Cup rider is the 2017 World Finals winner is the archive's reading, from the name, the class and the number 137, an inference.

Sources: World Cup 2018 Pro Freestyle sheet; World Cup 2019 Pro Freestyle sheet

2018 · Likely

The same report says that on his Rickter he finished second in the first moto of the Pro-Am Ski GP class at that April 2018 exhibition. Taking the rider on the Rickter for the racer of the sheets rests on the name and the Rickter craft, which is an inference.

Sources: WCJ 20 April 2018 Huntington Beach

Riding outside a race

2014 · Likely

The association's post of 20 January 2014 relays the organiser Nick Foederer's recap of the 2014 Thrust Innovations Daytona Freeride, which says that after the raffle ended Mark Gomez jumped into the south pool with a ski and did a few backflips for the crowd. Joining this rider to the 2017 Pro Freestyle winner rests on the name and the freestyle riding, which is the archive's reading.

Sources: IJSBA 20 January 2014 Daytona Freeride recap

2014 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of 28 February 2014, a first-person account of a freeride weekend in Baja held for the watch maker Champion Timepiece's team, says that as the sun was setting Mark Gomez put on a flat water freestyle show for everyone on the beach, riding his new Rickter hull, set up by TC Freeride. The Rickter name, which the 2018 World Cup sheet prints as his team, is part of why the archive takes him for the racer of the sheets; the tie is an inference.

Sources: WCJ 28 February 2014 Estero Beach

2014 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of 25 September 2014 on the seventh Cronulla Rip n' Ride in Australia, an event it says is not a full-on competition, names Mark Gomez among the riders who came from abroad and places him among the riders on the water in a good swell on the Friday morning, making the most out of every wave. The placings in its judged side contests are not used. The archive takes this rider to be the racer of the sheets on the name and the freeride riding alone, an inference.

Sources: WCJ 25 September 2014 Cronulla Rip n' Ride

2016 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of the 2016 Daytona Freeride, held from 14 to 17 January 2016, says that in the Saturday night pool show Mark Gomez did three flips in a row and was then joined by another rider for simultaneous back flips from each direction. It names no craft for the show. Reading him as the World Finals racer rests on the name and the freestyle, which is the archive's inference.

Sources: WCJ 25 January 2016 Daytona Freeride

2018 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of the 2018 Braap Werks Daytona Freeride, posted on 23 January 2018, says that when a rider's ski sank during the Cherry Buster backflip contest, which is entered by riders who have never done a backflip in the surf, Mark Gomez rolled his ski into the water with a tow rope attached and went out to help the rider bring the ski to shore. It calls him Hydro-Turf's Mark Gomez; the tie to the racer is again the archive's reading of the name and the riding.

Sources: WCJ 23 January 2018 Daytona Freeride

2018 · Likely

The Watercraft Journal's report of the first Hot Products Huntington Beach Moto Surf and Freeride Exhibition, on 14 and 15 April 2018, says Mark Gomez both raced and rode freeride there, the freeride exhibitions being, in its words, no competition. That he is the racer of the sheets is inferred by the archive from the name and the freeride riding.

Sources: WCJ 20 April 2018 Huntington Beach

Names as printed

MARK GOMEZ (World Cup 2018 Pro Freestyle sheet)

Elsewhere in the archive

What the archive has not read (2)

  • Posts by PersonalWatercraft.com and The Watercraft Journal in 2017 call him an IFWA world champion, and the 2014 to 2016 reports give him placings in freeride contests at Daytona and Cronulla; no IFWA or freeride contest result sheet naming him is held (searched the archive's mirror and research cache, 2026-10-18), so none of these is a title here.
  • Many posts about his riding are his own words, his own videos or a sponsor's: a superflip off a wave in 2014, a backyard pool at a sponsor's party in 2016, an ocean swell off Japan in 2017 and his vlogs of 2021. They support only what he says, and none is used as a fact here.

Documents cited on this page

  • 2017 World Finals Sunday results (ijsba.com): 2017 Blowsion World Finals Results, Sunday 8 October (IJSBA page), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2017-10-08; sanctioning body, high. The association's posted results for the Sunday of the 2017 World Finals, including the pro classes, read on 22 September 2026.
  • World Cup 2018 Pro Freestyle sheet (jetski-worldcup.com): Thai Airways International Jet Ski World Cup 2018, Pro Freestyle, result sheet (image, transcribed), Jet Ski World Cup Grand Prix Co., Ltd (jetski-worldcup.com), 2018-12-09; sanctioning body, high. The organiser's signed result sheet for Pro Freestyle at the event of 6 to 9 December 2018, printed 9 December 2018, with run totals, points and final positions. An image on the live site (the archive has the page but not the image); the held text is a transcription made by reading it.
  • World Cup 2019 Pro Freestyle sheet (jetski-worldcup.com): Thai Airways International Jet Ski World Cup 2019, Pro Freestyle, result sheet (image, transcribed), Jet Ski World Cup Grand Prix Co., Ltd (jetski-worldcup.com), 2019-12-08; sanctioning body, high. The organiser's signed result sheet for Pro Freestyle at the event of 5 to 8 December 2019, printed 8 December 2019. An image on the live site; the held text is a transcription made by reading it.
  • WCJ 20 April 2018 Huntington Beach (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: Hot Products Huntington Beach Moto Surf & Freeride Exhibition (The Watercraft Journal, 20 April 2018), The Watercraft Journal, 2018-04-20; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's report of the first Hot Products Huntington Beach Moto Surf and Freeride Exhibition, 14 and 15 April 2018: Taylor Curtis of T.C. Freeride raced the Vet Ski GP class and rode in the freeride exhibitions, which were not a contest, and the report prints no placing for him; Mark Gomez raced the Pro-Am Ski GP class on a Rickter, finishing second in moto 1, and rode freeride. Medium; the held file is a partial copy of the post.
  • IJSBA 20 January 2014 Daytona Freeride recap (ijsba.com): 2014 Thrust Innovations Daytona Freeride Recap (IJSBA news post dated 20 January 2014, relaying the organiser Nick Foederer's recap), International Jet Sports Boating Association, 2014-01-20; sanctioning body, medium. The association's post of the organiser's own recap of the 2014 Daytona Freeride: after the raffle, Mark Gomez took a ski into the south pool and did a few backflips for the crowd. Medium: the organiser's account of his own event, relayed, not a result sheet; the Surf and Style placings in the same paragraph are not used.
  • WCJ 28 February 2014 Estero Beach (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: Champion Timepiece Riders' Freeride Weekend at Estero Beach, Ensenada (The Watercraft Journal, 28 February 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-02-28; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's first-person report of a freeride weekend in Baja held for a watch maker's team: at sunset, Mark Gomez put on a flat water freestyle show at Estero Beach on a Rickter hull set up by TC Freeride. Medium; the team is the sponsor's, the account is the writer's.
  • WCJ 25 September 2014 Cronulla Rip n' Ride (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 7th Annual Cronulla Rip n' Ride Goes Off (The Watercraft Journal, 25 September 2014), The Watercraft Journal, 2014-09-25; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's report of the seventh Cronulla Rip n' Ride in Australia, which it says is not a full-on competition: Mark Gomez among the riders from abroad and on the water in a good swell on the Friday morning. Its judged side contests are contests, and their placings are not used. Medium; the held copy is an excerpt.
  • 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 23 January 2018 Daytona Freeride (watercraftjournal.com): Gallery: 2018 Braap Werks Daytona Freeride, Presented by Pro Watercross (The Watercraft Journal, 23 January 2018), The Watercraft Journal, 2018-01-23; enthusiast media, medium. A watercraft magazine's report of the 2018 Daytona Freeride: the Saturday Cherry Buster contest, the Sickest Trick session with the riders in its field, and the rider the writer names as winner of the Freeride competition. Medium; a magazine's report, not a result sheet.
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