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Maxine McCormick (born 2004) is the youngest world champion in fly casting history. [1] In 2016, at age 12, she won the women's World Casting Championship in fly-fishing. She is America's No. 1 female caster. [2]
The American Casting Association held its 100th Annual Casting Championships in 2008 at the Golden Gate Angling & Casting Club. [citation needed] There are several disciplines in fly casting such as trout accuracy, trout distance, sea trout distance, salmon distance, spey distance etc.
In addition to standard two-handed casts, veteran surfcasters may also resort to the pendulum cast (derived from tournament casting contests) to achieve added distance – in some cases exceeding 700 feet. Tournament casting is a sport in its own right, with the world record held by Danny Moeskops casting a distance of 286.63 meters (313.46 yards).
The world's longest 15 ft 1 in (4.60 m) single spey cast was made by Geir Hansen from Norway. The cast measured 65.5 metres (215 ft), and was made during the Hemsedal Spey Competition in 2021. Hansen also set the world record for the 18ft class, with a 77.0 metres (252.6 ft) cast, at the same event.
The sport is supervised by the International Casting Sport Federation [4] (ICSF) which was founded in 1955 and as of April 2014 has member associations in 31 countries. [5] The ICSF sponsors tournaments and recognizes world records for accuracy and distance.
When Bonnie Timmermann is helping Ridley Scott or Michael Mann find the perfect person for a role in films like “Black Hawk Down” and “Heat,” she will buy auditioning actors pizza or ...
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
The only World Games casting events were these 11 men’s contests. Casters from the United States won 18 of the 33 medals awarded, with Steve Rajeff collecting four gold medals. Casting is the act of using a fishing rod and reel and accurately throwing the lure in a specific spot.