42nd WMC Parachuting – Szolnok (HUN) - Day 7

SZOLNOK (HUN) – In presence of Gillian Rayner (FRA), President of the FAI Parachuting Commission (IPC), most of the competitions of the 42nd WMC Parachuting ended yesterday, August 17, in Szolnok, Hungary. The French ADJ Déborah Ferrand became the new Individual Accuracy Female Military World Champion with a one point lead on the silver medallist OR-2 Maja Sajovic from Slovenia while 1LT Ping Wang (CHN) took the bronze medal. In individual accuracy junior female, China has two representatives on the podium with the gold medallist CDT Mei Yang while OR-3 Yue Li took bronze. The German OR-3 Tatjana Gustke is finally ranked second.

In the female overall rankings, LT Evgeniia Furman, who was ranked 3rd in accuracy and 4th in style, took the advantage of the style tie-break against ADJ Déborah Ferrand (FRA) (1st in accuracy and 6th in style) to win the individual overall female ranking while another Russian, WO Elena Laktionova took bronze. CDT Mei Yang, from China, took the first place of the individual overall junior female ranking thanks to her 1st and 3rd place in accuracy and style. She defeated the SLD Mariia Elkina (RUS), silver medallist and the OR-3 Tatjana Gustke from Germany, bronze medallist!

In individual accuracy, 1LT Gao Tinabo (CHN) won the junior contest after achieving 7 perfect jumps in a row. Unfortunately, his last jump was not so good (4 points) but he still managed to win the competition ahead of his two teammates CDT Zhang Zuolei and CPL Yang Xin. The same Gao Tinabo was also on his way to win the gold medal of the individual accuracy senior, but his last jumps only allowed hum to be ranked 5th while the other co-leader OR-7 Stefan Wiesner achieved a nice solid last jump and won a deserved title. OR-7 Senad Salkic (SLO), WO Oldrich Sorf (CZE) and OR-8 Istvan Asztalos has to compete in a tie-break as they were even after 8 jumps. At this game, Salkic took the silver medal, followed by Sorf while Asztalos was ranked 4th.

1LT Libor Jirousek (CZE) led the competition from the start to the end and it’s not a surprise to see him on the first step of the podium of the individual style male ahead of OR-7 Elischa Weber (GER) and SGT Aleksei Bykov (RUS). In individual style junior male, 1LT Gao Tinabo achieved another demonstration with the first place of the ranking. The OR-5 Lukas Tschech (GER) took silver and 2LT Shanmao Lu (CHN) finished on the third step of the podium.

With his two first places in junior accuracy and style, Gao Tinabo (CHN) also dominated the individual overall junior male ranking. The podium was 100% Chinese as his two teammates 2LT Shanmao Lu and CPL Xin Yang completed the podium. The Czech Oldrich Sorf became Military World Champion as he took the first place of the individual overall male ranking, followed by German OR-7 Stefan Wiesner and Chinese 1LT Gao Tinabo (once again!).

In the Formation Male, the Belgian team Hayabusa confirmed its superiority with perfect last jump with 35 formations. In total, Belgium achieved 280 formations during the 8 jumps and thus won a deserver world title. With 251 formations achieved, Qatar is ranked second while Switzerland finishes on the third step of the podium with 233 formations.

The last competitions will end today with the Accuracy team male and female events.