Air sports at the 2009 World Games
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The air sports
(parachuting
) competition at the World Games 2009
took place from July 17 to July 21, at the Kaohsiung Swimming Pool in Kaohsiung
, Taiwan
.
Air sports
The term Air sports covers a range of aerial activities such as:* Aerobatics* Ballooning* General aviation including Air racing* Gliding* Hang gliding* Human powered aircraft* Model aircraft* Parachuting* Paragliding...
(parachuting
Parachuting
Parachuting, also known as skydiving, is the action of exiting an aircraft and returning to earth with the aid of a parachute. It may or may not involve a certain amount of free-fall, a time during which the parachute has not been deployed and the body gradually accelerates to terminal...
) competition at the World Games 2009
World Games 2009
The World Games of 2009 took place in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, from July 16, 2009 to July 26, 2009. The games featured sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games....
took place from July 17 to July 21, at the Kaohsiung Swimming Pool in Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung
Kaohsiung is a city located in southwestern Taiwan, facing the Taiwan Strait on the west. Kaohsiung, officially named Kaohsiung City, is divided into thirty-eight districts. The city is one of five special municipalities of the Republic of China...
, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
.
Medal winners
| Accuracy landing | |||
| Canopy piloting | |||
| 4-way formation skydiving | Andrew Delk Craig Girard Mark Kirkby Steven Nowak Eliana Rodriguez |
Mikhail Kuznetsov Vladimir Pavlenko Andrey Seliverstov Oleg Shalamykhin Sergey Shenin |
Guillaume Bernier Mathieu Bernier Julien Degen Fabrice Rieu Jeremie Rollett |
| 2-way canopy formation | Chris Gay Liz Godwin Mark Gregory |
Sergey Kulakov Igor Pugachev Sergey Vibe |
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| Freeflying | Cathy Bouette Frédéric Fugen Vincent Refet |
Hеvard Flaat Mathias Holtz Kristian Moxnes |
Michael Carpenter Alberto Fuertes Adam Mattacola |