Tuesday, November 14:  The final countdown is on for next week’s UIM-ABP Endurance World Championship on spectacular Lake Toba in Indonesia. Officials at Aquabike Promotion are hopeful that around 25 racers from more than 15 nations will make the start of the Lake Toba Challenge and compete for the Karo, Dairi and Samosir Cups on November 22nd, 23rd and 24th.

Amongst an array of assembled global talent from the USA, Hungary, Italy, UAE, Spain, Sweden, France, Kuwait, New Zealand, Cambodia, China, Japan, Qatar, Thailand, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Denmark and Indonesia, the brother and sister duo of Kylie and Cliff Ellmers will be chasing silverware and having a little family battle of their own over the course of the three race days that will decide the 2023 UIM-ABP Endurance World Championship.

Hailing from New Zealand, both Kylie and Cliff are based out of Melbourne in Australia and are integral members of the Australian jetski racing scene and regularly feature in the GP Runabout category at the Australian Watercross Endurance series, in the PWC ProAm Rec Lites and ProAm Showroom Stock Endurance classes and at the IJSBA World Championship, in addition to other races and international championships.

Kylie was born in Gisborne and is involved in the sport on a professional basis. She has earned multiple national titles in New Zealand, Australia and Thailand and seven American championship titles. She also finished seventh, sixth, fourth and ninth in the 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018 UIM World Championships.

Competitors will race for the Karo Cup on November 22nd on a three-kilometre circuit near the village of Tongging. The Cup will be decided by two races of 35 minutes apiece and has been named after the nearby regency of Indonesia that is situated in the Barisan Mountains.

Racers battle it out for the Dairi Cup on November 23rd on a 3.2km course routed off the shores of the town of Silalahi to the south. Again, the Cup will be determined by finishing positions in a pair of 35-minute races. The cup is named after the Dairi Regency, an inland region of Indonesia on the west shore of Lake Toba.

The third race on November 24th sees competitors taking part in two more 35-minute races for the Samosir Cup on a 3.1km course close to the event’s base camp at Pangururan. Race three will be preceded by the official opening ceremony in the presence of Joko Widodo, the President of Indonesia.