| Doug Sayers | |
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 2010 WJF Overall Champion | |
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Websites |
www.whatsupjuggling.com |
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Highest numbers juggled |
9 balls qualified |
Doug Sayers (born August 10, 1988) [1] is a professional juggler[2] from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.[3][4] He started juggling when he was 8 years old.[3] He has been competing at the IJA and the WJF since 2005,[5][6] and has held passing world records since 2007.[7]
Doug is the only person who has won all four solo numbers competitions at the IJA in the same year.[5] He won the IJA Individuals Stage Competition in 2009,[8] and the WJF Overall Championship in 2010.[9] At WJF 7 in 2011, Doug won the Advanced Ball, Ring, and Club Short Programs and three other advanced competitions, and due to a miscount of the scores was initially named Overall Champion, but Vova Galchenko had actually scored the most points overall.[10]
World records
World records with publicly available video evidence:[11]
- 7 ball shower: 18 catches (video)
- 9 ball halfshower: 21 catches (video)
- 12 ball passing: 454 passes caught with Peter Kaseman in 2012 (video)
- 13 ball passing: 351 passes caught with Peter Kaseman in 2010 (video)
- 14 ball passing: 195 passes caught with Peter Kaseman in 2012 (video)
- 15 ball passing: 91 passes caught with Peter Kaseman in 2012 (video)
- 16 ball passing: 39 passes caught with Peter Kaseman in 2011 (video)
- 14 club passing: 14 passes caught with Ben Thompson (video) and with Peter Kaseman (video) in 2012, tied with Peter Kaseman and Darin Marriott (in 2004)
- 17 club 3-person passing: 24 passes caught with Peter Kaseman and Stefan Brancel in 2012 (video)
Competitions
Doug won the following IJA and WJF competitions.[5][6]
IJA 2005:
- Games:
- 3 Ball Blind Endurance
WJF 2:
- 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 4:
- 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 6:
- Advanced Clubs
- 6 Ball Freestyle
- 5 Ring Freestyle
- 7 Ring Freestyle
- 6 Club Freestyle
- 7 Ball Isolated Endurance
- 7 Club Isolated Endurance
- Overall Championship
IJA 2011:
- Numbers: Solo Balls
- Numbers: Ring Passing with Tony Pezzo
- Numbers: Club Passing with Peter Kaseman
- eXtreme Juggling: 5 rings
WJF 7:
- Advanced Balls
- Advanced Rings
- Advanced Clubs
- 5 Ball Freestyle
- 6 Ball Freestyle
- Ring Endurance
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References
- ↑ http://www.jugglinguniverse.net/html/Doug_Sayers/
- ↑ http://whatsupjuggling.com/about/
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 http://www.kcrg.com/sports/84488007.html
- ↑ http://www.facebook.com/dougsayers7
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 http://www.juggle.org/champrules/championships.php
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 http://www.thewjf.com/allevents.php
- ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQAxDX5lasI
- ↑ http://www.juggle.org/history/champs/champs2009.php
- ↑ http://thewjf.com/wjf6.php
- ↑ http://www.thewjf.com/wjf7/wjf7_results.php
- ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggling_world_records