2016 in air sports

Paragliding

Paragliding World Cup

• March 9 – 16: 2016 Paragliding World Cup Brazil in Castelo
  • Overall winner: Félix Rodriguez (4450 points)
  • Women's winner: Keiko Hiraki (4066 points)
• June 4 – 11: 2016 Paragliding World Cup - Italy in Gemona del Friuli
  • Overall winner: Andreas Malecki (1463 points)
  • Women's winner: Silvia Buzzi Ferraris (1345 points)
• July 2 – 9: 2016 Paragliding World Cup - Portugal in Serra da Estrela
  • Overall winner: Donizete Baldessar Lemos (2447 points)
  • Women's winner: Keiko Hiraki (2172 points)
• September 3 – 10: 2016 Paragliding World Cup - France in Saint-André-les-Alpes
  • Overall winner: Maxime Pinot (2184 points)
  • Women's winner: Kirsty Cameron (1496 points)
• October 1 – 8: 2016 Paragliding World Cup (final) in Saint-Leu
  • Overall winner: Michael Küffer (2832 points)
  • Women's winner: Klaudia Bulgakow (2259 points)

Paragliding Accuracy World Cup

• May 5 – 8: Paragliding Accuracy World Cup #1 in Berane
  • Overall winner: Goran Đurković
  • Women's winner: Tamara Kostić
• May 10 – 15: Paragliding Accuracy World Cup #2 in Vlorë
  • Overall winner: Mile Jovanoski
  • Women's winner: Tamara Kostić
• August 5 – 7: Paragliding Accuracy World Cup #3 in Lombok
  • Overall winner: Permadi Chandra
  • Women's winner: Nunnapat Phuchong
• August 11 – 15: Paragliding Accuracy World Cup #4 in Taitung County
  • Overall winner: Zhifeng Zhu
  • Women's winner: Nunnapat Phuchong

International and Continental events

• May 27 – June 3: 3rd FAI Asian Paragliding Accuracy Championship in Taldykorgan
  • Overall winner: Tanapat Leangaiem
  • Teams winner:  China
• July 10 – 17: 5th FAI European Paragliding Accuracy Championship in Paluknys
  • Men's winner: Matjaž Sluga
  • Women's winner: Tamara Kostić
• July 16 – 23: XXXIII Guarnieri International Trophy - Pre-World 2016 in Pedavena
  • Overall winner: Federico Nevastro
  • Women's winner: Seiko Fukuoka-Naville
• August 8 – 20: 14th FAI European Paragliding Championship in Kruševo
  • Overall winner: Honorin Hamard
  • Women's winner: Seiko Fukuoka-Naville
  • Teams winners:  France (Honorin Hamard, Julien Wirtz, Maxime Pinot, Pierre Remy, Alexandre Jofresa, Seiko Fukuoka-Naville)
• August 26 – September 4: 2nd FAI World Paragliding Championships in Montmin / Doussard
  • Men's winner: François Ragolski
  • Women's winner: Christina Kolb

Parachuting

• January 15 – 17: Para-ski World Cup #1 in St Johann im Pongau/Alpendorf
  • Men's winner: Ule Uroš
  • Women's winner: Magdalena Schwertl
  • Junior mix winner: Sebastian Graser
  • Master mix winner: Alic Gernot
  • Overall teams winners:  Austria
• February 19 – 21: Para-ski World Cup #2 in Unterammergau
  • Men's winner: Sebastian Graser
  • Women's winner: Magdalena Schwertl
  • Junior mix winner: Sebastian Graser
  • Master mix winner: Marco Valente
  • Overall teams winners:  Austria
• March 4 – 6: Para-ski World Cup #3 in Vrchlabí/Krkonoše
  • Men's winner: Alessandro Di Prisco
  • Women's winner: Magdalena Schwertl
  • Junior mix winner: Sebastian Graser
  • Master mix winner: Tomas Saurer
  • Overall teams winners:  Slovenia
• no date set from #4 Para-ski World Cup in Srednja Vas v Bohinju
• July 17 – 29: 40th CISM World Military Parachuting Championship in Kubinka
  • Individual Accuracy winners: Dmitrii Mastafanov (m) / Olga Lepezina (f)
  • Individual Style winners: Libor Jirousek (m) / Olga Lepezina (f)
  • Overall Results winners: Dmitrii Mastafanov (m) / Olga Lepezina (f)
  • Junior Individual Style winners: Andrey Izimetov (m) / Léocadie Ollivier de Pury (f)
  • Junior Individual Accuracy winners: Gao Tinabo (m) / Darja Shastakovich (f)
  • Junior Overall Results winners: Gao Tinabo (m) / Darja Shastakovich (f)
  • Formation Skydiving winners:  Belgium (m) /  France (f)
  • Team Accuracy winners:  Hungary (Tamas Banszki, Szaboles Gal, Gabor Hirschler, Tamás Varga, István Asztalos) (m) /  Belarus (Nataliya Nikitsiuk, Yuliya Fiodarava, Aksana Famina, Natalia Zimina, Valeryia Osipava) (f)
  • Teams Overall Results winners:  Russia (m) /  Russia (f)
• August 20 – 27: 6th FAI World Canopy Piloting Championships in Farnham
  • Overall winner: Christopher Bobo
  • Accuracy winners: Curtis Bartholomew & Eric Philippe
  • Distance here was cancelled
  • Speed winner: Christopher Bobo
• September 11 – 20: 2016 FAI World Parachuting Championships - Mondial in Chicago
  • Freefall Style winners: Libor Jirousek (m) / Olga Lepezina (f)
  • Speed Skydiving winner: Henrik Raimer

Accuracy Landing

• • Individual Accuracy Landing winners: Uroš Ban (m) / Nataliya Nikitsiuk (f)
  • Junior Individual Accuracy winners: Sebastian Graser (m) / Tiantian ZHAO
  • Team Accuracy Landing winners:  Slovenia (m) /  China (f)

Formation Skydiving

• • 4 Way Formation winners:  Belgium (m) /  United States (f)
  • 8 Way Formation winners:  United States
  • Vertical Formation winners:  United States

Artistic Events

• • Artistic Freefly winners:  Russia 1
  • Artistic Freestyle winners:  France 2

Canopy Formation

• • 2 Way Sequential winners:  France 1
  • 4 Way Sequential winners:  Qatar
  • 4-Way Rotation winners:  France
• October 11 – 16: 2nd FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving in Warsaw
  • Open Freestyle winner: Inka Tiitto
  • Junior Freestyle winner: Kyra Poh
  • Dynamic 2-WAY winners:  Poland
  • 4 Way Formation winners:  Belgium (m) /  France 1 (f); Junior winners:  Canada
  • Vertical Formation winners:  United States
• November 3 – 6: 1st FAI World Wingsuit Performance Flying Championships in Zephyrhills, Florida
  • Winner: Chris Geiler

Ultralight aviation

• June 9 – 18: 2nd FAI European Paramotor Slalom Championships in Bornos
  • PF1 Class winner: Alexandre Mateos
  • Trike Class winner: Alexandre Mateos
  • Racing teams winners: (Alexandre Mateos, Nicolas Aubert, Jérémy Penone, François Blanc)
  • Nations winners: (Bartosz Nowicki, Wojtek Bógdał, Marcin Bernat, Paweł Kozarzewski, Piotr Ficek, Szymon Winkler, Krzysztof Romicki)
• August 20 – 27: 15th FAI World Microlight Championships in Popham Airfield
  • RAL 1 T winner:  Czech Republic
  • RAL 2 T winner:  United Kingdom
  • RGL 2 T winner:  Hungary
  • RWL 1 T winner:  United Kingdom
  • RWL 2 T winner:  Russia
• August 20 – 27: 9th FAI World Paramotor Championships in Popham Airfield
  • Winners:  France, 2.  Czech Republic, 3.  Poland

Hang gliding

• July 16 – 30: 19th FAI European Hang Gliding Class 1 Championship in Kruševo
  • Winner: Christian Ciech
  • Team winners:  Italy (Christian Ciech, Alessandro Ploner, Suan Selenati, Filippo Oppici, Tullio Gervasoni)
• July 17 – 30: 7th FAI World Hang Gliding Class 5 Championship in Kruševo
  • Winner: Tim Grabowski
  • Team winners:  Austria (Christopher Friedl, Wolfgang Kothgasser, Walter Geppert)

Gliding

Grand Prix gliding

• January 23 – 30: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #1 in Vitacura
  • Winner: Carlos Rocca
• April 17 – 23: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #2 in Cerdanya
  • Winner: Louis Bouderlique
• May 1 – 8: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #3 in Usman
  • Winner: Sebastian Kawa
• May 14 – 21: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #4 in Varese
  • Winner: Peter Hartmann
• June 4 – 11: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #5 in Rennes
  • Winner: Louis Bouderlique
• June 18 – 25: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #6 in Niederöblarn
  • Winner: Boštjan Pristavec
• July 9 – 17: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #7 in Bicester
  • Winner: Jan Omsels
• July 24 – 31: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #8 in Ionia
  • Winner: Jerzy Szemplinski
• August 6 – 13: 2016 FAI Qualifying Sailplane GP #9 in Ebersbach-Musbach
  • Winner: Matthias Sturm
• November 5 – 12: 7th FAI World Sailplane Grand Prix Championship in Potchefstroom
  • Winner: Holger Karow

International Championships

• July 30 – August 13: 34th FAI World Gliding Championships in Kaunas
  • Standard class winner: Louis Bouderlique
  • Club class winner: Jan Rothhardt
  • 20 metre Multi-Seat class winners:  France (Duboc & Aboulin)

General aviation

• September 4 – 9: 20th FAI World Rally Flying Championship in Santa Cruz
  • Advanced Category winners:  Czech Republic
  • Unlimited Category winners:  France

2016 Red Bull Air Race World Championship

• • • March 11 & 12: WARC #1 in Abu Dhabi
      • Master Class winner: Nicolas Ivanoff
      • Challenger Class winner: Daniel Ryfa
    • April 23 & 24: WARC #2 in Spielberg
      • Master Class winner: Matthias Dolderer
      • Challenger Class winner: Florian Berger
    • June 4 & 5: WARC #3 in Chiba
      • Master Class winner: Yoshihide Muroya
      • Challenger Class winner: Cristian Bolton
    • July 16 & 17: WARC #4 in Budapest
      • Master Class winner: Matthias Dolderer
      • Challenger Class winner: Daniel Ryfa
    • August 13 & 14: WARC #5 in Ascot
      • Master Class winner: Matt Hall
      • Challenger Class winner: Kevin Coleman
    • September 3 & 4: WARC #6 in Lausitzring
      • Master Class winner: Matt Hall
      • Chellenger winner: Florian Bergér
    • October 1 & 2: WARC #7 in Indianapolis
      • Master Class winner: Matthias Dolderer
      • Chellenger winner: Luke Czepiela
    • October 15 & 16: WARC #9 in Las Vegas
      • Cancelled due to high winds.

Ballooning

• February 24 – 29: 3rd FAI European Hot Air Airship Championship in Rottach-Egern
  • Winner: Jacques-Antoine Besnard (6875 points)
• June 24 – July 4: 3rd FAI Junior World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Marijampole
  • Winner: Rokas Kostiuškevičius (17035 points)
• July 5 – 10: 2nd FAI Women's World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Birštonas
  • Winner: Nicola Scaife (8713 points)
• July 21 – 24: 2016 Luxembourg Balloon Trophy in Mersch
  • Winners: 1. Sven Göhler, 2. Matthew Scaife, 3. David Spildooren
• September 15 – 24: 60th Coupe Aéronautique Gordon Bennett in Gladbeck
  • Winners:  Switzerland 1 (Kurt Frieden & Pascal Witpraechtiger)
  • 2nd place:  Switzerland 2 (Nicolas Tièche & Laurent Sciboz)
  • 3rd place:  Spain 1 (Anulfo Gonzalez & Angel Aguirre)
• October 30 – November 7: 22nd FAI World Hot Air Balloon Championship in Saga
  • Winner: Rhett Heartsill

Aerobatics

• May 28: 2016 Sky GP in Durban
  • Winner: Patrick Davidson
• July 20 – 30: 7th FAI World Advanced Glider Aerobatic Championships in Matkopuszta
  • Winner: Sebastian Jansson
  • Team winners:  Hungary (Dávid Józsa, Miklós Hoós, Péter Szabó)
• July 20 – 30: 19th FAI World Glider Aerobatic Championships in Matkopuszta
  • Winner: Ferenc Tóth
  • Teams winners:  Hungary (Ferenc Tóth, János Szilágyi, János Sonkoly)
• August 4 – 14: 12th FAI World Advanced Aerobatic Championships in Radom
  • Winner: Loïc Lovicourt
  • Teams winners:  France (Loïc Lovicourt, Romain Vienne, Benoît Faict)
• August 20 – 27: 20th FAI European Aerobatic Championships in Moravská Třebová
  • Winner: Mikhail Mamistov
  • Teams winner:  France (Olivier Masurel, Mikael Brageot, Alexandre Orlowski)

Model aircraft

• April 11– 16: 2016 FAI F1D World Championships for Free Flight Indoor Model Aircraft in Slănic
  • Senior Individual winner: Yuan Kang Lee
  • Senior Teams winners: (Istvan Botos, Dezso Orsovai, Zoltan Sukosd)
  • Junior Individual winner: Călin Bulai
  • Junior Teams winners: (Vladyslav Klymenko, Iurii Vytko, Denis Zhariy)
• May 7 – 13: 2016 FAI F2 World Championships for Control Line Model Aircraft in Perth
  • F2A winner: Paul Eisner
  • F2B winner: Orestes Hernández
  • F2C winners: (Robert Fitzgerald & Mark Ellins)
  • F2D winner: Illia Rediuk
• July 20 – 24: 2016 FAI F1E European Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft in Turda
  • Winner: Franciszek Kanczok
  • Teams winner:  Poland
• July 22 – 31: 2016 FAI F3 European Championships for Model Helicopters in Włocławek
  • F3C winner: Ennlo Graber
  • F3N winner: Eric Weber
  • F3C Teams winners:  Switzerland
  • F3N Teams winners:  United Kingdom
• July 29 – August 6: 2016 FAI F3A European Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft in Untermünkheim
  • Winner: Gernot Bruckmann
  • Teams winner:  Switzerland
• July 30 – August 6: 2016 FAI F3J World Championship for Model Gliders in Vipava
  • Senior winner: Arijan Hucaljuk
  • Junior winner: Dillon Graves
  • Senior Teams winner:  Germany (Manuel Reinecke, Dominik Prestele, Ryan Höllein)
  • Junior Teams winner:  Germany (Max Finke, Jan Christoph Weihe, Felix Parsch)
• August 1 – 7: 2016 FAI F1 Junior World Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft in Prilep
  • F1A winner: Mickail Lomov
  • F1B winner: Dmytro Merzilakov
  • F1P winner: Daniel Bogomaz
  • F1A Teams winner:  Poland
  • F1B Teams winner:  Russia
  • F1P Teams winner:  Russia
• August 13 – 20: 2016 FAI F1 European Championships for Free Flight Model Aircraft in Aradac/Zrenjanin
  • F1A winner: Roland Koglot
  • F1B winner: Aleksey Burdov
  • F1C winner: Artur Kaitschuk
  • F1A Team winners:  France
  • F1B Team winners:  Russia
  • F1C Team winners:  Poland
• August 13 – 20: 2016 FAI F5 World Championships for Electric Model Aircraft in Lugo
  • Winner: Johannes Starzinger
  • F5D winner: Tomáš Andrlík
  • Team winners:  Austria (Johannes Starzinger, Karl Waser, Franz Riegler)
  • Team F5D winners:  Czech Republic
• August 20 – 28: 2016 FAI F4 World Championships for Scale Model Aircraft in Ploiești
• August 22 – 30: 2016 FAI S World Championships for Space Models in Lviv
  • Winner: Robert Kreutz
  • Team winners:  Ukraine
• October 1 – 8: 2016 FAI F3A Asian-Oceanic Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft in Taichung
  • Winner: Onda Tetsuo
  • Junior winner: Minemura Shoutaiou
  • Team winners:  Japan
• October 2 – 8: 2016 FAI F3 World Championship for Model Gliders in Hanstholm
  • Senior winner: Arijan Hucaljuk
  • Junior winner: Dillon Graves
  • Seniors Team winners:  Germany
  • Juniors Team winners:  Germany

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