Stand-out seasons for New Zealand’s Jack Moody and young Swiss athlete, Alanis Siffert have seen both athletes finish top of the 2024 Challenge Family World Bonus standings, each taking home a US$25,000 bonus to help support their career goals for 2025.
Challenge Family’s World Bonus provides professional athletes with the opportunity to race for a share of a US$100,000 end-of-season bonus on top of the prize purses at races.
Points are available at selected Challenge Family events, and started with Challenge Israman in January and ended with Challenge Florianopolis in Brazil on November 24, 2024.
The bonus pays five deep across both men and women with the top ranked pros taking home US$22K, second earns US$14K with third taking US$8K, fourth US$4K and fifth US$2K.
With five Challenge Family podium finishes from six races, including three wins at Challenge Taiwan, Challenge Gunsan-Saemangeum and Challenge Cap Québec, Jack Moody said chasing the World Bonus had been a lot of fun.
“Going for the overall bonus this year has been a lot of fun and almost felt like a game of Texas Hold’em,” he said after his final race in Challenge Xiamen where he placed third.
“Who was going to turn up to what races and when. I opted to play my cards early and thankfully still had a card to play come November. The prize money will set me up nicely to be able to travel more to race next season and help me achieve some pretty lofty targets for 2025. Winning the World Bonus was one my big goals for this season and I’m really happy to have been able to execute it well.”
For Alanis Siffert, 2024 was her breakthrough season. She rose from 148th to 28th in the PTO rankings via five out of her nine races in 2024 with Challenge Family. This included wins at Challenge Xiamen and Challenge Peguera Mallorca and second place at Challenge Almere-Amsterdam, Challenge Kaiserwinkl-Walchsee and Challenge Taiwan.
Siffert said “It’s such an honour for me to win the overall ranking this year; [something] I would have never imagined.
“I enjoyed racing the whole year around the world and discovering amazing places and people. Thank you so much to the whole Challenge Family team for this opportunity and your support.”
| RANK | ATHLETE | POINTS |
| 1 | Jack Moody (NZL) | 1,250 |
| 2 | Ognjen Stojanović (SRB) | 1,150 |
| 3 | Jesper Svensson (SWE) | 765 |
| 4 | Tom Hug (GER) | 750 |
| 5 | Will Draper (GBR) | 650 |
| RANK | ATHLETE | POINTS |
| 1 | Alanis Siffert (SUI) | 1,350 |
| 2 | Aurélia Boulanger (FRA) | 975 |
| 3 | Els Visser (NED) | 950 |
| 4 | Rebecca Robisch (GER) | 800 |
| 5 | Anne Haug (GER) | 600 |
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