LAS VEGAS — Dan Mortensen matched Casey Tibbs' 44-year-old record of six world saddle bronc titles Sunday, finishing the 10-round National Finals Rodeo with $219,999.
"Casey Tibbs did a lot for the sport of rodeo," said Mortensen, from Billings, Mont. "The marks that he set and the records that he achieved will never be taken away from him. He's done so much for the sport. His legacy will live on forever."
"I'm happy with the week I had down here. I felt like I rode well. It's been a long time (1998) since I won the world, so to do it again is pretty special."
Canada's Glen O'Neill was second with $215,574.
In the 10th round, Cody Wright of Milford, Utah, won with a 91.5-point ride on Burch Rodeo's Mullin Hill. Wright entered the NFR with $77, 966.55 and won $101,118.05 - the most won by any cowboy in the event. He finished third in the world with $179,084.60.
Canada's Rod Hay was second at 89, and Mortensen tied for fifth with an 83.5.
Cody Ohl of Stephenville, Texas, set a world rodeo record by winning the final round of tie-down roping in 6.5 seconds. He won his fourth world title, finishing the season with $212,366.
Six-time champ Fred Whitfield of Hockley, Texas, finished second with $200,656. Since 1995, either Ohl or Whitfield have claimed the world titles.
Terry Don West of Henryetta, Okla., won his second bull riding world championship with $211,879, including $61,503 in the NFR. Myron Duarte of Auburn, Wash., won the final round with a 92.5.
Will Lowe of Canyon, Texas, took his first bareback riding title, finishing with $188,246.
"Everyone goes out to win every time they get on," Lowe said. "I would have liked to have won the average here, but things don't always work out the way you would like them to. At least the master plan of winning a world title worked out. The average was just one little battle that I lost, but I won the war."
Cody Jessee of Prineville, Ore., tied an aggregate championship score record with 839 points for 10 rides.
James Boudreaux of Cuero, Texas, won the final round with an 88.
In steer wrestling, Teddy Johnson of Checotah, Okla., won his first world championship, finishing with $149,498. Birch Negaard of Buffalo, S.D., was a close second with $145,558
"My goal was to come here and get within $20,000 of paying off my house note," Johnson said. "I surpassed that. I won the world and paid off my place. I'm loving it."
Todd Suhn of Brighton, Colo., won the final round in 3.7.
Speed Williams and Rich Skelton of Llano, Texas, tied for the lead in career titles by claiming their seventh straight team roping championship. Williams, the header, and Skelton, the heeler, each earned a single-season record $180,305.
David Key of Caldwell, Texas, and Clay O'Brien Cooper of Glen Rose, Texas, split first in the final round in 4.4 with Chad Masters of Adams, Tenn., and Michael Jones of Stephenville, Texas, and Wade Wheatley of Hughson, Calif., and Britt Bockius of Claremore, Okla.
Janae Ward of Addington, Okla., won her first barrel racing championship with $155,792. She entered the NFR in 14th place in season winnings but claimed the world title by winning $111,908 at the NFR. Jackie Dube of Giddings, Texas, won the final round with a 13.68-second run.