Air sports at the World Games

Air sports with the discipline parachuting were introduced as World Games sports at the World Games 1997 in Lahti. At the 2013 World Games in Cali, paragliding was introduced.

Parachuting

Men

Accuracy Landing

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997 Lahti	Ivan Hovorka (CZE)	Chen Junbo (CHN)	Oleg Fomin (BLR)

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997 Lahti	Saudi Arabia (KSA)	United States (USA)	France (FRA)
2001 Akita	United States (USA)	France (FRA)	United States (USA)

Women

Accuracy Landing

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997 Lahti	Irena Avbelj (SLO)	Lai Xiaoli (CHN)	Monika Filipowska (POL)

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997 Lahti	United States (USA)	Japan (JPN)	Switzerland (SUI)
2001 Akita	Italy (ITA)	Japan (JPN)	Italy (ITA)

Mixed

Accuracy Landing

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2001 Akita	Marco Pflüger (GER)	Wang Jianming (CHN)	Wei Ning (CHN)
2005 Duisburg	István Asztalos (HUN)	Stefan Wiesner (GER)	Savas Kocyigit (TUR)
2009 Kaohsiung	Stefan Wiesner (GER)	Robert Juris (SVK)	Liubov Ekshikeeva (RUS)

Canopy Formation, 2-way

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2009 Kaohsiung	United States (USA)	Russia (RUS)	Australia (AUS)

Canopy Piloting

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2005 Duisburg	Jason Moledzki (CAN)	Shannon Pilcher (USA)	Clint Clawson (USA)
2009 Kaohsiung	Jason Moledzki (CAN)	Nicholas Batsch (USA)	Marat Leiras (BRA)
2013 Cali	Curtis Bartholomew (USA)	Thomas Dellibac (USA)	Pablo Hernández (ESP)
2017 Wrocław	Nicolas Batsch (USA)	Curtis Bartholomew (USA)	Cornelia Mihai (UAE)
2022 Birmingham	Cedric Veiga Rios (FRA)	Nicholas Batsch (USA)	Abdulbari Qubaisi (UAE)

Formation Skydiving, 4-way

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1997 Lahti	United States (USA)	France (FRA)	South Africa (RSA)
2001 Akita	United States (USA)	Norway (NOR)	France (FRA)
2005 Duisburg	United States (USA)	Russia (RUS)	Italy (ITA)
2009 Kaohsiung	United States (USA)	Russia (RUS)	France (FRA)

Freeflying

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2005 Duisburg	France (FRA)	Germany (GER)	United States (USA)
2009 Kaohsiung	France (FRA)	Norway (NOR)	Great Britain (GBR)

Freestyle

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2005 Duisburg	Denmark (DEN)	France (FRA)	Japan (JPN)

Paragliding

Men

Accuracy Landing

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2013 Cali	Matjaz Feraric (SLO)	Thomas Lednik (CZE)	Tanapat Luangiam (THA)

Women

Accuracy Landing

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2013 Cali	Jolanta Romanenko (LTU)	Nunnapat Phuchong (THA)	Milica Marinkovic (SRB)

Paramotoring

Mixed

Paramotor Slalom

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2017 Wrocław	Wojciech Bogda (POL)	Kittiphob Phrommat (THA)	Marcin Bernat (POL)

Gliding

Mixed

Glider Aerobatics

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2017 Wrocław	Ference Toth (HUN)	Luca Bertossio (ITA)	Eugen Schaal (GER)

External links

• World Games at Sports123 by Internet Archive
• 2005 World Games info system
• World Games 2013