Delaney Bayles | |
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2016 WJF Advanced Overall Champion | |
Websites |
delaneybayles.com |
Highest numbers juggled |
Delaney Bayles is an American juggler from Salt Lake City, Utah. She has been described as "the most technically gifted female toss juggler of all time."[1]
Delaney learned to juggle 3 balls from her uncle when she was 13.[2] In 2015 she won the IJA Juniors Championship,[3] and in 2019 she won the IJA Teams Championship with Zak McAllister.[4] In 2016, she won the WJF Overall Championship.[5] She has been voted the most popular juggler of the year in the Top 40 Jugglers list three years in a row, from 2020 to 2022.[6][7][8]
World records[]
Delaney holds the following world records with publicly available video evidence:
- 3 rings with 1 hand and 1 foot: 8 catches in 2018 (video)
- 5 ring front-to-back body throws: 5 catches in 2020 (video), tied with Kenshin Tomie in 2023 (video)
- 5 ring back-to-front body throws: 5 catches in 2021 (video)
- 5 club back-to-front body throws: 10 catches in 2021 (video)
- 6 club backcrosses: 16 catches in 2022 (video)
- 6 club shoulder throws: 12 catches in 2021 (video)
- 7 ring pancakes: 21 catches in 2022 (video)
- 7 ring overheads: 15 catches in 2021 (video)
- 7 ring backcrosses: 14 catches in 2020 (video)
Competitions[]
Delaney won the following IJA and WJF competitions:[5][9][10]
WJF 2013:
- Junior Overall Championship
IJA 2014:
- eXtreme Juggling: 4-5 Balls
IJA 2015:
- Stage: Juniors
WJF 2015:[11]
- Advanced Rings
- 5 Ball Freestyle
- 5 Club Freestyle
WJF 2016:
- Advanced Balls
- Advanced Rings
- Advanced Clubs
- Ring Endurance
- 5 Ball Freestyle
- 5 Club Freestyle
- Advanced Overall Championship
IJA 2019:[12]
- Stage: Teams with Zak McAllister
- Numbers: Ring Passing with Zak McAllister
- eXtreme Juggling: 4 Clubs
- eXtreme Juggling: 5+ Clubs
- Games: 5 Club Endurance
References[]
- ↑ https://www.facebook.com/groups/JugglingRock/permalink/1043549895714565/?comment_id=1043587579044130
- ↑ http://ezine.juggle.org/2013/09/20/10-questions-with-delaney-bayles/
- ↑ http://www.ijachamps.com/2015
- ↑ http://www.ijachamps.com/2019/teams
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 https://youtu.be/tBEmRJzlTHs
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W__pTPL2da8
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP52Mpl4HKQ
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tl80Aplb4bs
- ↑ http://dev.juggle.org/ija/championships/
- ↑ http://thewjf.com/wjf-9-competition-results/
- ↑ https://youtu.be/tvZ_DjPW5Qo
- ↑ https://www.juggle.org/2019-ija-fest-review/