THE third FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving started yesterday on a graceful note with leading skydivers from all over the world putting on an impressive performance on the opening day of competition at Gravity Bahrain in Zallaq.
Competitions are being held in Artistic Events (indoor solo freestyle) for juniors and open; Dynamic 2-Way, Formation Skydiving 4-way (female, junior and open) and Vertical Formation Skydiving (open).
The qualifying rounds were held yesterday and competition resumes today at 9am and will continue till 5pm.
View this post on InstagramThis is my first round today I was super nervous before but I’m happy with how it turned out
Twenty-five countries, including hosts Bahrain, are taking part in this four-day event which concludes with a closing ceremony on Sunday at the Ritz-Carlton Bahrain.
Khalid Mashrah, Naser Khalifa, Husain Ebrahim, Ahmed Al Thawadi are representing Bahrain 1 in the Four-way FS Open while Yunes Al Doseri, Khalifa Al Najjar, Abdulrahim Hemadi and Ammar Al Matri are part of Bahrain 2.
Garth Lewis and Benjamin Roane are part of Team Gravity in the D2W Open while Fatima Al Khalifa, Mubaarak Al Doseri, Nayef Al Somaim and Rashed Al Kawari are taking part in Freestyle Open.
Kaleigh Wittenburg of the USA got off to a great start in the juniors section of the Indoor Solo Freestyle, with a score of 27.4 after the first three rounds.
Yi Xuan Choo of Singapore was second (27.2) and Coralie Boudreault of Canada was third (27.0).
In the open section, Toms Ivans (LAT) led with a 27.9 total. Maja Kuczynska (POL) was second on a 27.8 score, while Kyra Poh (SIN) was third with a 27.6 total.
Bahrain’s Team Gravity (344.8) were ninth in the qualifying of Dynamic 2-Way.
Team Firefly Singapore (393.5) topped the qualifying while France 1 (379.3) and France 2 (376.5) were second and third.
Bahrain 1 were 18th in Formation Skydiving 4-Way Open after four rounds of qualifying while France (157) finished on top followed by HayaBusa of Belgium and Amnesya of Italy.
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