WCIS - 2016, Awards and Prize Giving

 Marcin Kwiatosz, Secretary General of Aeroklub Polski

started the proceedings by thanking the host, organiser and all competitiors for such an outstanding competition.  He said he was proud to attend the first FCE Parachuting event ever hosted in Poland and congratulated all.

Regan Tetlow then introduced Patrice Girardin, the Jury President, who declared that the competition had been conducted according to the rules and therefore the results were valid.

The final event of a great three days spent at Flyspot, Warsaw was the Award Ceremony and Prize-giving followed by a PARTY.  The junior contingent, ably led by Leonid Volkov entertained us all and had a great time.  Prior to the evening's proceedings two very productive Competitors' meetings were held, with lots of ideas and desires for the Formation Skydiving and Artistic Events committees to consider and discuss prior to the IPC Plenary in Faro January 2017.

The first award was made to the Solo Freestyle Junior Event Winners:

Andrzej Soltyk POL	Kyra Poh SIN	Aleksandra POL

Followed by the Formation Skydiving 4-Way Junior event

Jnr 1 AK Demie FRA	Air Devils CAN	Tunnel Vision CAN

Next came Artistic Events - Solo Freestyle Open:

Leonid Volkov RUS	Inka Tiitto FIN	Marti Dedek CZE

and now Formation Skydiving 4-Way Female

Volition GBR	France Female 1 FRA	NFTO GBR

and now Formation Skydiving 4-Way Open

France 2 FRA	Hayabusa BEL	France 1 GBR

followed by 4-Way VFS event

FlyStation VFS RUS	SDC Core USA	Golden Knights

and finally the 2-Way Dynamic event:

France 1 2WD FRA	Vipers POL	Suisse One SUI

CONGRATULATIONS  TO  ALL  OUR  MEDAL  WINNERS

and to all the Competitors, Judges, Video and Scoring people, all the staff and helpers at Flyspot, Warsaw for making this competition possible.

Meet Director Agnieszka Sobczynska-Solomon (Aggie) thanks Thierry Courtin and his colleagues for their work in providing the judging panels with the images and scoring system - InTime.

Finally, for those interested in the statistics of such an event:

The FAI Flag remained in position, flying in the food tent throughout the competiton, so the Organiser was able to make the symbolic hand over to the 1st Vice President of IPC, Patrice Girardin, for the next FCE Host at the 1st FAI World Wingsuit Performance Flying Championships and 1st FAI World Cup of Wingsuit Acrobatic Flying, Zephyrhills, Florida (USA) 3 - 9 November 2016.