Staffordshire wakeboarder out to make a splash at World Games
A Staffordshire wakeboarder is aiming to make waves in China at next month’s World Games.
Charlotte Millward is preparing for the biggest moment of her sporting career after qualifying for the Games, which starts on August 7.
The 29-year-old is a former European junior champion who is also currently the UK’s No.1 ranked female wakeboarder.
But nothing she has previously experienced will quite compare to what awaits a few weeks from now, when she will be one of 4,000 athletes from across the world from 35 different sports descending on Chengdu.
“It is pretty much the biggest thing I have ever been in,” she said. “The World Games is supported by the Olympic Committee and is almost like a Games for sports which aren’t in the Olympics.
“It’s very, very exciting. I went to China last year for the world championships and they put on a really, really good show. This is the World Games, so I just think this is going to be amazing.”
Wakeboarding, as Millward describes it, is “like waterskiing but on a board” with competitors performing tricks similar to those seen in freestyle snowboarding, all while being towed by a boat travelling at more than 20 miles an hour.
