Janawicz, Barnes, Woessner earn Masters medals on final day of competition at 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships
October 23, 2025
(From left to right) Senior Team USA bowlers John Janawicz, Jodi Woessner and Chris Barnes don their Masters medals, which they earned during Wednesday's final day of competition at the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships in Reno, Nevada.
FULL RESULTS
RENO, Nev. – Senior Team USA bowlers John Janawicz of Winter Haven, Florida, and Chris Barnes of Denton, Texas, earned gold and silver medals, respectively, in the Senior Men’s Masters event while Jodi Woessner of Oregon, Ohio, claimed bronze in Senior Women’s Masters play during Wednesday’s final day of competition at the 2025 International Bowling Federation World Seniors Championships, which was contested at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada.
Janawicz and Barnes were the last two men standing in the Senior Men’s Masters field, so the Team USA teammates battled one another in the gold-medal match.
As expected, the American stars put on quite a show, striking on more than 72% of their deliveries and combining to average 240.33 over the course of the three-game match.
The fireworks started early as Janawicz and Barnes both started Game 1 with six-baggers.
Neither man managed a strike in the seventh frame, but Janawicz remained clean after converting the 3-pin while Barnes left a 2-8-10 split that he was unable to clean up.
That was the only opening Janawicz needed as he spared the 7-pin in the eighth frame and then struck out to take the first game by a final score of 266-220.
Barnes fired back in Game 2, however, beginning with a six-bagger for the second game in a row before a mixer 7-pin ended his run at perfection one frame later.
Janawicz did his best to stay close, starting the second game strike, spare, turkey, but a 10-pin in the sixth frame and a 3-6 in the eighth allowed Barnes to mark in the 10th frame to win the game, 253-238, and square the match.
Unfortunately for Barnes, that was as good as things would get because the 10-pin would rear its ugly head early and often for him during Game 3.
The talented Texan had trouble getting the dastardly corner pin to fall from start to finish during the deciding game, leaving it standing in the first, third, fourth, seventh and 10th frames.
Barnes would’ve left two additional 10-pins had he not managed to send messengers careening into it for key strikes in the sixth and ninth frames.
Janawicz left one 10-pin and two 7-pins of his own, but he mixed in a turkey in frames two, three and four, a double in the sixth and seventh and a closing four-bagger to finish with 248 while Barnes’ carry issues only allowed him to reach 217.
That allowed Janawicz to win the match, collect the Senior Men’s Masters gold medal and cement his status as the most dominant bowler at the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships.
During his six days competing in Reno, Janawicz collected four gold medals (Senior Men’s Singles; Senior Men’s Team; Senior Men’s All-Events; Senior Men’s Masters) and one bronze (Senior Men’s Doubles – with Barnes).
Janawicz has enjoyed success at the National Bowling Stadium in the past. As such, he came to this year’s tournament with a great deal of confidence; nevertheless, he didn’t take it for granted that he’d perform well at this year’s event.
“In preparation for these world championships, you want to get as physically sharp as you can, and you want to get your equipment prepared the best you can to match up to what you’re going to be bowling on,” Janawicz said. “Still, when you get there, you don’t always know what’s going to happen. You may need to manipulate things more than you expected, or sometimes because of the lane surface, the oil pattern and your particular ball roll, you just can’t knock the pins down.
“I was very fortunate that things worked out so well this week because you never want to lay an egg at the world championships. I was able to make good shots for the most part, and that allowed me to contribute to the team in a positive manner and help get us some gold medals. I’m grateful things worked out and happy to be a part of the team.”
Barnes employs the same team-first mentality, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t hoping to get the better of Janawicz in the gold-medal match; still, at the end of the day, Barnes was happy for his teammate and pleased with his own performance in the final match and for the tournament as a whole.
“JJ (Janawicz) was the class of the field this week,” Barnes said. “Bowling him in the final, I knew I’d need every hit. That puts so much pressure on you because you know how great he’s playing. The third game of that match was about as good as I can bowl, but I had the 10-pins, and he bowled way too good for me to overcome that.
“Still, all in all, we won a team gold medal, JJ carried me to bronze in the doubles and now I have a silver in Masters. There’s always some disappointment and things you can get better at, but, all in all, it was a really good week and a great Team USA experience.”
Barnes began his day with a 2-1 (244-228; 180-245; 231-224) quarterfinal victory over Germany’s Michael Kramer and a 2-0 (248-178; 213-195) semifinal sweep of Australia’s Adam Hayes before falling to Janawicz in the battle for gold.
Before defeating Barnes, Janawicz collected a pair of 2-1 victories, the first over New Zealand’s Pete Richardson (184-183; 190-201; 244-210) and the second courtesy of Australia’s Michael Muir (240-205; 232-257; 226-219).
Muir and Hayes took home the Senior Men’s Masters bronze medals.
In Senior Women’s Masters action on Wednesday, Woessner kicked off the morning with a 2-0 (203-191; 215-209) quarterfinal sweep of Australia’s Samantha Matthews.
That win pushed the American right-hander into the semifinals and guaranteed her a medal.
Although Woessner had her eyes on gold, she was forced to settle for bronze after falling 2-0 (224-177; 192-153) to Italy’s Alessandra Morra in the semifinals.
Morra would go on to take silver after losing 2-0 (198-168; 188-158) to Japan’s Eiko Suzuki during the Senior Women’s Masters gold-medal match.
That left Morra with silver while Germany’s Martina Beckel joined Woessner in capturing bronze.
While Woessner would’ve preferred a different outcome on Wednesday, she believes she put her best foot forward during Masters competition and got better and better as this year’s tournament went on.
“My first two matches were strong,” Woessner said. “I bowled well and shot all 200 games, which was at a premium this week, especially for the women. I felt confident going into the semifinal match, but we hit a pair that just didn’t react the same as what I’d been seeing, which happens. My opponent bowled great and got me in a hole, and I just couldn’t dig out of it.
“Today’s final result was disappointing, but I feel like I had a great week. I started off slowly, but I got better and smarter as the tournament went along, so I feel pretty good.”
All eight Senior Team USA athletes who competed in Reno have plenty to feel good about as the group medaled 14 times over the course of six days of action at the National Bowling Stadium.
Nine of those medals were contributed by the American men’s squad, which featured Janawicz, Barnes, Tom Hess of Granger, Iowa, and Parker Bohn III of Jackson, New Jersey.
The remaining five were secured by the Senior Team USA women’s foursome of Woessner, Lynda Barnes of Denton, Texas; Rina Sabo of Bennett, Colorado, and Dana Ausec of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Individually, the American medal count was as follows:
Men
Janawicz – 5 (four gold, one bronze)
Hess – 4 (one gold, one silver, two bronze)
Barnes – 3 (one gold, one silver, one bronze)
Bohn – 2 (one gold, one bronze)
Women
Woessner – 3 (two gold, one bronze)
Barnes – 3 (one gold, two silver)
Sabo – 2 (gold)
Ausec – 2 (one gold, one silver)
Competition at the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships began on Oct. 17 and featured world-class athletes from 37 nations who traveled to the famed National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada, to compete in singles, doubles, team, all-events and Masters competitions. The tournament was contested on a 42-foot lane pattern designed specifically for the event.
CLICK HERE for more information on Team USA.
FULL RESULTS
RENO, Nev. – Senior Team USA bowlers John Janawicz of Winter Haven, Florida, and Chris Barnes of Denton, Texas, earned gold and silver medals, respectively, in the Senior Men’s Masters event while Jodi Woessner of Oregon, Ohio, claimed bronze in Senior Women’s Masters play during Wednesday’s final day of competition at the 2025 International Bowling Federation World Seniors Championships, which was contested at the National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada.
Janawicz and Barnes were the last two men standing in the Senior Men’s Masters field, so the Team USA teammates battled one another in the gold-medal match.
As expected, the American stars put on quite a show, striking on more than 72% of their deliveries and combining to average 240.33 over the course of the three-game match.
The fireworks started early as Janawicz and Barnes both started Game 1 with six-baggers.
Neither man managed a strike in the seventh frame, but Janawicz remained clean after converting the 3-pin while Barnes left a 2-8-10 split that he was unable to clean up.
That was the only opening Janawicz needed as he spared the 7-pin in the eighth frame and then struck out to take the first game by a final score of 266-220.
Barnes fired back in Game 2, however, beginning with a six-bagger for the second game in a row before a mixer 7-pin ended his run at perfection one frame later.
Janawicz did his best to stay close, starting the second game strike, spare, turkey, but a 10-pin in the sixth frame and a 3-6 in the eighth allowed Barnes to mark in the 10th frame to win the game, 253-238, and square the match.
Unfortunately for Barnes, that was as good as things would get because the 10-pin would rear its ugly head early and often for him during Game 3.
The talented Texan had trouble getting the dastardly corner pin to fall from start to finish during the deciding game, leaving it standing in the first, third, fourth, seventh and 10th frames.
Barnes would’ve left two additional 10-pins had he not managed to send messengers careening into it for key strikes in the sixth and ninth frames.
Janawicz left one 10-pin and two 7-pins of his own, but he mixed in a turkey in frames two, three and four, a double in the sixth and seventh and a closing four-bagger to finish with 248 while Barnes’ carry issues only allowed him to reach 217.
That allowed Janawicz to win the match, collect the Senior Men’s Masters gold medal and cement his status as the most dominant bowler at the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships.
During his six days competing in Reno, Janawicz collected four gold medals (Senior Men’s Singles; Senior Men’s Team; Senior Men’s All-Events; Senior Men’s Masters) and one bronze (Senior Men’s Doubles – with Barnes).
Janawicz has enjoyed success at the National Bowling Stadium in the past. As such, he came to this year’s tournament with a great deal of confidence; nevertheless, he didn’t take it for granted that he’d perform well at this year’s event.
“In preparation for these world championships, you want to get as physically sharp as you can, and you want to get your equipment prepared the best you can to match up to what you’re going to be bowling on,” Janawicz said. “Still, when you get there, you don’t always know what’s going to happen. You may need to manipulate things more than you expected, or sometimes because of the lane surface, the oil pattern and your particular ball roll, you just can’t knock the pins down.
“I was very fortunate that things worked out so well this week because you never want to lay an egg at the world championships. I was able to make good shots for the most part, and that allowed me to contribute to the team in a positive manner and help get us some gold medals. I’m grateful things worked out and happy to be a part of the team.”
Barnes employs the same team-first mentality, but that doesn’t mean he wasn’t hoping to get the better of Janawicz in the gold-medal match; still, at the end of the day, Barnes was happy for his teammate and pleased with his own performance in the final match and for the tournament as a whole.
“JJ (Janawicz) was the class of the field this week,” Barnes said. “Bowling him in the final, I knew I’d need every hit. That puts so much pressure on you because you know how great he’s playing. The third game of that match was about as good as I can bowl, but I had the 10-pins, and he bowled way too good for me to overcome that.
“Still, all in all, we won a team gold medal, JJ carried me to bronze in the doubles and now I have a silver in Masters. There’s always some disappointment and things you can get better at, but, all in all, it was a really good week and a great Team USA experience.”
Barnes began his day with a 2-1 (244-228; 180-245; 231-224) quarterfinal victory over Germany’s Michael Kramer and a 2-0 (248-178; 213-195) semifinal sweep of Australia’s Adam Hayes before falling to Janawicz in the battle for gold.
Before defeating Barnes, Janawicz collected a pair of 2-1 victories, the first over New Zealand’s Pete Richardson (184-183; 190-201; 244-210) and the second courtesy of Australia’s Michael Muir (240-205; 232-257; 226-219).
Muir and Hayes took home the Senior Men’s Masters bronze medals.
In Senior Women’s Masters action on Wednesday, Woessner kicked off the morning with a 2-0 (203-191; 215-209) quarterfinal sweep of Australia’s Samantha Matthews.
That win pushed the American right-hander into the semifinals and guaranteed her a medal.
Although Woessner had her eyes on gold, she was forced to settle for bronze after falling 2-0 (224-177; 192-153) to Italy’s Alessandra Morra in the semifinals.
Morra would go on to take silver after losing 2-0 (198-168; 188-158) to Japan’s Eiko Suzuki during the Senior Women’s Masters gold-medal match.
That left Morra with silver while Germany’s Martina Beckel joined Woessner in capturing bronze.
While Woessner would’ve preferred a different outcome on Wednesday, she believes she put her best foot forward during Masters competition and got better and better as this year’s tournament went on.
“My first two matches were strong,” Woessner said. “I bowled well and shot all 200 games, which was at a premium this week, especially for the women. I felt confident going into the semifinal match, but we hit a pair that just didn’t react the same as what I’d been seeing, which happens. My opponent bowled great and got me in a hole, and I just couldn’t dig out of it.
“Today’s final result was disappointing, but I feel like I had a great week. I started off slowly, but I got better and smarter as the tournament went along, so I feel pretty good.”
All eight Senior Team USA athletes who competed in Reno have plenty to feel good about as the group medaled 14 times over the course of six days of action at the National Bowling Stadium.
Nine of those medals were contributed by the American men’s squad, which featured Janawicz, Barnes, Tom Hess of Granger, Iowa, and Parker Bohn III of Jackson, New Jersey.
The remaining five were secured by the Senior Team USA women’s foursome of Woessner, Lynda Barnes of Denton, Texas; Rina Sabo of Bennett, Colorado, and Dana Ausec of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Individually, the American medal count was as follows:
Men
Janawicz – 5 (four gold, one bronze)
Hess – 4 (one gold, one silver, two bronze)
Barnes – 3 (one gold, one silver, one bronze)
Bohn – 2 (one gold, one bronze)
Women
Woessner – 3 (two gold, one bronze)
Barnes – 3 (one gold, two silver)
Sabo – 2 (gold)
Ausec – 2 (one gold, one silver)
Competition at the 2025 IBF World Seniors Championships began on Oct. 17 and featured world-class athletes from 37 nations who traveled to the famed National Bowling Stadium in Reno, Nevada, to compete in singles, doubles, team, all-events and Masters competitions. The tournament was contested on a 42-foot lane pattern designed specifically for the event.
CLICK HERE for more information on Team USA.