Following the Opening Ceremony of the FAI World Championships in Artistic Events, Formation Skydiving, Speed Skydiving, and Wingsuit Flying in Fort Macon on Saturday, the competition kicked off to an great start this morning.

This first day proved to be exceptional, with perfect weather conditions and seamless operations. All three planes demonstrated excellent coordination and efficiency, setting the stage for an impressive event.

• Results
• Pictures

Tomorrow's Schedule

• Freestyle events
• Wingsuit Performance
• Pending rejumps to complete Rounds 3 and 4 of Speed

Current Standings

Formation Skydiving (FS) 4-Way Open (4 rounds completed)

1. USA: 120 points

2. France: 110 points

3. Qatar: 99 points

4. Belgium: 90 points

Great performances from the three leading teams. Team Hayabusa, who features a new team member, is fourth.

FS 4-Way Female

1. USA: 99 points

2. China: 91 points

3. France: 90 points

4. Germany: 77 points

The draw of sequences is the same, which means that if FS Open and FS Female categories were combined into only one open category, the USA Female team would be tied for 3rd place with Qatar Open, China Female would be 5th, and Belgium (4-way open) would be tied with France Female.

FS 8-Way (5 rounds completed)

1. USA: 109 points

2. Qatar: 91 points

3. Germany: 65 points

4. Great Britain: 42 points

Vertical Formation Skydiving (VFS) (4 rounds completed)

1. USA: 69 points

2. Norway: 67 points

3. Italy: 54 points

4. Great Britain: 47 points

Speed Skydiving

• 2 rounds completed

• Rounds 3 and 4 pending a few rejumps

Follow the competition

FAI will publish daily reports, pictures and other multimedia content across its website and social media channels during the whole duration of the competition.

• FAI Facebook page
• FAI Instagram page
• FAI X page
• FAI pictures (Flickr)
• FAI Event mini-site
• Results
• Event website

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Organisers John D'Annunzio, Rook Nelson, and Melissa Nelson

Photo credit: Team Papea (top picture); Alberto Martin Paracuellos