2009 Winners
36th International
Whistlers Convention

Adult Division (ages 20 and over)

• Male International Grand Champion
  
• 1st Place:    Mr. Luke Janssen of New York City, NY, USA and England
  
• 2nd Place:  Geert Chatrou, Netherlands
• 3rd Place:  Tormod Borgen Rogne, Norway

• Female International Grand Champion
  
• 1st Place:   Carole Anne Kaufman, Monrovia, CA, USA
• 2nd Place:  Kimiko Wakiyama, Higashiyamato, Tokyo, Japan
• 3rd Place:  Akiko Shibata, Saitama-shi, Saitamo-ken, Japan

Teenage Division

• Female Grand Champions
• 1st Place:  Narumi Nakata, Himeji-shi, Hyogo, Japan
• 2nd Place:  Cassidy Osgood of Louisburg, NC, USA

• Male Grand Champions
• 1st Place:  Yudai Takenaka, Himeji-shi, Hyogo, Japan

Children's Division

• 1st Place:  Mr. Takehiro Ishihara of Hirakata, Osaka, Japan
• 2nd Place:  Robby Hood, of St. Louis, MO, USA
• 3rd Place:  Ms. Aisha Kanai of Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

Allied Arts Champions

• Male:
  
• 1st Place:  Asim Gorashi of Woodridge, Old, Australia
• 2nd Place:  Mitsuhiro Mori. Japan

• Female:
  
• 1st Place:  Carole Anne Kaufman of Monrovia, CA, USA
• 2nd Place:  Jan Marra, St. Louis, MO, USA

Entertainer of the Year
(Lillian Williams Entertainment Awards)

• Male:  Sean Lomax of Pittsburg, PA, USA
• Female:  Phyllis Heil of Hickory, NC, USA

2009 Whistlers' Hall of Fame

• Ronald McCroby, Aurora, Ohio, USA

Contestant coming from the Farthest Distance

• Asim Gorashi from Australia