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
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
  • August 20 – 27: 9th FAI World Paramotor Championships in Popham Airfield

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
  • 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

2016 Red Bull Air Race World Championship

      • March 11 & 12: WARC #1 in Abu Dhabi
      • April 23 & 24: WARC #2 in Spielberg
      • June 4 & 5: WARC #3 in Chiba
      • July 16 & 17: WARC #4 in Budapest
      • 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
      • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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
  • July 29 – August 6: 2016 FAI F3A European Championship for Aerobatic Model Aircraft in Untermünkheim
  • 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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