Doug Sayers (born in 1988)[1] is an American juggler from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.[2] He started juggling when he was 8 years old,[2] and he first competed at the IJA and the WJF in 2005.[3][4]
Doug won the IJA Individuals Stage Competition in 2009,[5] and the WJF Overall Championship in 2012 and 2014.[4] He is the only person who has won all four solo Numbers competitions (balls, rings, clubs, and bounce juggling) at the IJA in the same year.[3]
World records[]
Doug has held passing world records since 2007.[6] His current records are:
- 11 ball passing: 1771 passes caught with Noah Schmeissner in 2024 (video)
- 12 ball passing: 729 passes caught with Noah Schmeissner in 2024 (video)
- 13 ball passing: 567 passes caught with Noah Schmeissner in 2024 (video)
- 14 ball passing: 331 passes caught with Noah Schmeissner in 2024 (video)
- 15 ball passing: 116 passes caught with Noah Schmeissner in 2024 (video)
- 16 ball passing: 81 passes caught with Noah Schmeissner in 2024 (video)
- 17 ball passing: 51 passes caught with Noah Schmeissner in 2024 (video)
- 18 ball passing: 32 passes caught with Noah Schmeissner in 2024 (video)
Competitions[]
Doug won the following IJA and WJF competitions.[3][4]
IJA 2005:
- Games:
- 3 Ball Blind Endurance
WJF 2005:
- Intermediate Balls
IJA 2006:
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Solo Clubs
IJA 2007:
- Numbers: Solo Balls (tied with Thomas Dietz)
- Numbers: Ball Passing with Bruce Bailey
- Games:
- 3 ball Blind Endurance
- 7 Ball Endurance
WJF 2007:
- Intermediate Balls
- Intermediate Clubs
IJA 2009:
- Stage: Individuals
- Numbers: Ball Passing with Bruce Bailey
IJA 2010:
- Stage: Teams with Josh Horton
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Solo Rings
- Numbers: Solo Clubs
- Numbers: Solo Ball Bouncing
- Numbers: Ring Passing with Josh Horton
- Numbers: Club Passing with Peter Kaseman
- Numbers: Three-Person Club Passing with Peter Kaseman and Thom Wall
- eXtreme Juggling: 5 clubs
WJF 2010:
- Advanced Clubs
- 6 Ball Freestyle
- 5 Ring Freestyle
- 7 Ring Freestyle
- 6 Club Freestyle
- 7 Ball Isolated Endurance
- 7 Club Isolated Endurance
IJA 2011:
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Ring Passing with Tony Pezzo
- Numbers: Club Passing with Peter Kaseman
- eXtreme Juggling: 5 rings
WJF 2011:
- Advanced Balls
- Advanced Rings
- Advanced Clubs
- 5 Ball Freestyle
- 6 Ball Freestyle
- Ring Endurance
IJA 2012:
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Solo Ball Bouncing
- Numbers: Ball Passing with Stefan Brancel
- Numbers: Ring Passing with Stefan Brancel
- eXtreme Juggling: 6+ Balls
- Games: 7 Ball Endurance
- Games: 5 Ring Endurance
WJF 2012:
- Advanced Balls
- Advanced Rings
- Advanced Clubs
- Power Ups
- Ball Endurance
- Ring Endurance
- Club Endurance
- 7 Ball Isolated Endurance
- 7 Ring Isolated Endurance
- 5 Ball 360s
- 5 Ring 360s
- 6 Ball Freestyle
- 7 Ball Freestyle
- 5 Ring Freestyle
- 6 Ring Freestyle
- 7 Ring Freestyle
- 5 Club Freestyle
- Overall Championship
IJA 2013:
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Solo Ball Bouncing
- Numbers: Ball Passing with Peter Kaseman
- eXtreme Juggling: 6+ Balls
WJF 2014:
- Advanced Clubs
- Ball Endurance
- 5 Ball Freestyle
- 5 Ring Freestyle
- Overall Championship
IJA 2017:
- Numbers: Ball Passing with Peter Kaseman
- Numbers: Ball Bounce Passing with Christian Kloc, tied with David Critchfield and John Jones
IJA 2022:[7]
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Ball Passing with Peter Kaseman
IJA 2023:[8]
- Numbers: Ball Passing with Noah Schmeissner (IJA competition record: 155 catches of 14 balls)
- Numbers: Ring Passing with Noah Schmeissner
WJF 21 (an online event in December 2024):[9]
- Ball Endurance
- Ball Passing Endurance with Noah Schmeissner
- Front-to-Back Ring Passing Endurance with Noah Schmeissner
- Back-to-Back Ring Passing Endurance with Noah Schmeissner
- Back-to-Back Club Passing Endurance with Noah Schmeissner
- Ultimate Backcross Passing Endurance with Noah Schmeissner
References[]
- ↑ http://www.jugglinguniverse.net/html/Doug_Sayers/
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 http://www.kcrg.com/sports/84488007.html
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 https://web.archive.org/web/20210724043950/https://dev.juggle.org/ija/championships/
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 https://www.thewjf.com/results/
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20140729205734/http://www.juggle.org/ija/championships/2009-winston-salem-nc/
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQAxDX5lasI
- ↑ https://www.juggle.org/2022-ija-festival-championships-and-competitions-results/
- ↑ https://www.juggle.org/enewsletter/2023-08
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td3ZPmCXhHY