2024 FAI World Championships in Artistic Events, Formation Skydiving, Speed Skydiving and Wingsuit Flying

Beaufort, NC,

USA
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07 Oct 2024

Day 2: 2024 FAI World Championships in Artistic Events, Formation Skydiving, Speed Skydiving and Wingsuit Flying

Impressive performances marked Day 2 of the 2024 FAI World Championships in Artistic Events, Formation Skydiving, Speed Skydiving, and Wingsuit Flying held under clear blue skies in Beaufort, USA.

On Thursday, a tornado is expected to pass close to the area. Due to this, they will be jumping as much as possible before the weather deteriorates. Strong winds and cloud cover are anticipated. However, there's also a concern that if the hurricane doesn't change its course, it might directly impact the Dropzone.

Tomorrow's Schedule

Morning

  • Formation Skydiving FS 8-way
  • Vertical Formation Skydiving VFS
  • Artistic Events - Freeflying

Afternoon

  • Formation Skydiving 4-way Open
  • Formation Skydiving 4 way Female and Speed

Current Standings

Artistic Events - Freeflying

2 rounds completed.

  1.  FRA: FF1 16.7 points
  2.  USA: 16.4 points
  3.  GBR: 13.9 points
  4.  FRA FF2: 13.9 points

Artistic Events - Freestyle

All rounds completed

  1.  USA FR1: 62.3 points
  2.  FRA FR1: 60.1 points
  3.  POL: 57.2 points
  4.  GER: 52.9 points

The German team, consisting of Lena Plumpe and Christian Kaufmann swapped roles during the competition: Lena performed the compulsory rounds while Christian filmed, and then Christian executed the free rounds while Lena took on the filming duties.

Speed Skydiving - Open

4 rounds completed.

  1.  Niklas Daniel (USA): 524.13 km/H average speed
  2.  Sebastian Garcia Gutierrez (ESP): 507.46 km/H - also Junior competitor
  3.  Mervyn O'Connell (AUS): 505.11 km/h
  4.  Marco Hepp (GER): 498.06 km/h

Speed Skydiving - Female

  1.  Natisha Dingle (AUS): 484.22 Km/h
  2.  Brianne Thompson (USA): 475.58 km/h
  3.  Tanita Rutherford (AUS): 472.26
  4.  Ingrid van Deelen (NED): 462.28

Speed Skydiving - Teams

  1.  USA
  2.  AUS
  3.  GER
  4.  ITA

Wingsuit Acro

3 rounds completed with 3 re-jumps pending.

  1.  GER
  2.  GBR
  3.  FRA
  4.  USA

Wingsuit Performance

1 round of each task completed, Distance, Speed and Time

So far in the combined result:

  1.  Jason Podunski (AUS)
  2.  Luke Rogers (AUS)
  3.  Jakub Juszczak (POL)
  4.  Ali Asker (KUW)

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Photo credit: FAI/Marcus King