On 24 October 2026, Ashleigh Stebbeings completed a perfect championship at Lake Myrtle in Auburndale, Florida. The Australian won all four Open Ladies world titles — overall, slalom, tricks and jump. She finished with the maximum 3000.00 overall points.
Eighteen metres and a full jump score
The world championships ran from 17 to 24 October, with the slalom, tricks and jump events each decided over three rounds. Stebbeings came through all three to complete the sweep. In jump she reached 16.4 m, 18.0 m and 17.4 m, her best leap coming in the second round.
That 18.0 m jump earned the full 1000.00 jump points. Megan Adams of the United States finished second with 738.89, a margin of 261.11 points. Adams' best of 13.3 m fell about 4.7 m short of the winner.
Canada's Becky Moynes Meyer followed with a best jump of 11.6 m, and Australia's Kelly Blank reached 11.7 m. The jury was led by Chief Judge Ludo Vrancx of Belgium and Chief Driver Ronald Meeks of the United States. The championships, awarded to Visit Central Florida, the City of Auburndale and the American Barefoot Club's Southern Region, were the first IWWF world titled event held on Auburndale's Championship Event Lake.
Six overall titles and a rare maximum
Stebbeings has stood at the front of her sport for years. She won the women's overall world title at Napanee, Ontario in 2018 and at Mulwala in 2023, where she became the first woman to take five overall world crowns. In 2024 she added a sixth and swept all three barefoot events.
Back in 2013 she was already a world champion and record holder in barefoot tricks. The maximum 3000.00 overall mark is rare: at the 2009 World Games she took silver with 2533.08, behind Elaine Heller's maximum 3000.00. Seventeen years later, she reached that ceiling herself.
The 2026 championships were open to foreign skiers and carried no cash prize. A native of Queensland, Stebbeings now trains in Florida, where she coaches at the World Barefoot Center in Winter Haven. Her Auburndale sweep, a clean four from four, adds a new chapter to a long career on the water.
